A call to accept God's mercy while there is still time

Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted—how small in bulk, but how great in virtue! Truth speaks in this work with such authority and efficacy, that it causes the reader to lay his hand upon his heart and find he has a soul and conscience, though before he lived as if he had none.

William Bates (1625–1699)
Presbyterian Puritan Minister of England

Certainly, no man ever penned three books like Baxter’s three masterpieces—The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The Reformed Pastor, and A Call to the Unconverted. I believe they have been blessed to thousands of souls, and are alone sufficient to place the author in the highest rank of theological writers. Of A Call to the Unconverted, 20,000 copies were printed in one year. Six brothers were converted at one time by reading it. John Eliot, the missionary, valued it so highly that he translated it into the Indian language, the first book after the Bible.

J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)
Anglican Minister of Liverpool

None of the popular works which have been composed to rouse slumbering minds to the consideration of the reasonableness, advantage, and importance of religion can be placed in comparison with Richard Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted.

John Hamilton Davies
Rector of St . Nicholas’, Worcester

A Call to the Unconverted has proved, in many instances, a most effective call. And many will have cause to give eternal thanks for ever having put this book into their hands. Christians would be doing a true work of benevolence by granting copies of this book to all their unconverted friends.

Presbyterian Board of Publication

In attempting to make an assessment of Baxter’s gospel, we have in his writings a wealth of material on the subject. All his books expound the gospel. But particularly this would be true of his very first book, A Call to the Unconverted. Dr. Packer says that “Baxter’s Call is the first evangelistic paperback in English which, in the year of its publication, sold twenty thousand copies and brought a steady stream of readers to faith throughout Baxter’s lifetime.” The importance of the book is magnified when we recall that it exerted a profound influence on George Whitefield [...]. Then, in the line of great preachers, we have C. H. Spurgeon’s words to this effect: “I remember, when I woke up in the morning [he refers to when he was a child], the first thing I picked up was Alleine’s Alarm or Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted.” “Oh, those books, those books,” Spurgeon exclaimed looking back, “I read them and devoured them!”

Maurice Roberts
Minister of the Free Church of Inverness, Scotland