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The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: Volume VII is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Volume Seven, Baxter attempts to understand the process of conversion and the nature of the unconverted. A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, first published in 1658, became Baxter’s most influential and widely-read work. In the words of one historian, “This slim volume was credited with the conversion of thousands and formed one of the core extra-biblical texts of evangelicalism until...

you might have heard by his cold prayers, and carnal conference, and seen by his careless, sinful life, that he did not heartily believe the Word of God; but now you may hear, and see by him that he doth believe it. If you tell a man that a bear or a cut-throat thief is following after him, if you see him not stir any faster, nor mend his pace, you will say, sure he doth not believe it; but if you see him run as for his life, it is a sign that he believes it. When once a man is truly converted, you
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