ADVERTISEMENT. and Ireland, were not mercy enough to me, God, since I was silenced, bath sent it over in his message to many beyond the seas; for when Mr. Elliot had printed all the Bible in the Indian language, he next translated this my Call to the Unconverted, as he wrote to us here. And yet God would make some farther use of it; for Mr. Stoop, the pastor of the French Church in London, being driven hence by the displeasure of his superiors, was pleased to translate it into French. I hope it will not be unprofitable there; nor in Germany, where it is printed in Dutch.' It may be proper also to mention Dr. Bates's account of the author, and of this useful treatise. In his sermon at Mr. BAXTER's funeral, he thus says: 'His books of practical divinity have been effectual for more conversions of sinners to God than any printed in our time; and while the church remains on earth, will be of continual efficacy to recover lost souls. There is a vigorous' pulse in them that keeps the reader awake and attentive.' His Call to the Unconverted, how small in bulk, but how powerful in virtue! Truth speaks in it with that authority and efficacy, that it makes the reader to lay his hand upon his heart, and find that pe has a soul and a conscience, though he lived before as if he had none. He told some friends, that six brothers were converted by reading that CALL; and that every week he received letters of some converted by his books. This he spake with most humble thankfulness, that God was pleased to use him as an instrument for the salvation of souls.
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