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

Volume Eight continues Baxter’s works on conversion. In this volume, he directly addresses the unconverted, and attempts to persuade them to change their minds. He also confronts weak Christians about their lackluster faith and for their lifestyle uncharacteristic of their belief in God. He encourages both the converted and unconverted toward honesty and stability, and includes a strongly-worded...

utterly uncertain whether you have a saving right to them; or whether God will accept a sacrifice at your hand? When you should grow and go forward, you will have little heart to it, because you know not whether you are yet in the way; and this will damp your life and comfort in every duty, when you must say, ‘I know not whether yet I be thoroughly converted.’ O therefore stop not the work at first. (5.) And lastly, If the work be thoroughly done at first you will persevere, when others fall away.
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