"Should you not weep over such a people, and should not your tears interrupt your words? Should you not cry aloud, and show them their transgressions; and entreat and beseech them as for life and death?"
- Richard Baxter (1615-1691), was a very influential puritan and enemy of the state in London. His book, A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, was instrumental in the conversion of thousands. In it he writes, “We are commanded to beseech and entreat you to accept the offer and turn; to tell you what preparation is made by Christ; what mercy stays for you; what patience waits on you… We must tell you of the wrath that is on you already, and the death that you are born under for the breach of the law of works. But this is only to show you the need of mercy, and to provoke you to esteem the grace of the Redeemer."
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