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The Sincere Convert
The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true believers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepherd ....The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true beleevers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepheard ....
London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Humphrey Blunden, 1641
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Which point might make us to take up a bitter lamentation for every natural man.1 It is said, Exod. 12. 30. that there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not an house wherein there was not one found dead. Oh Lord, in some towns and families what a world of these are there? Dead Husband, dead wife, dead servants, dead children, walking up and down with their sins (as Fame saith some men do after death) with their grave-clothes about them, and God only knows ⟨p. 48⟩whether ever they shall live again or not. How do men lament the loss of their dead friends! O thou hast a precious soul in thy bosom stark dead, therefore lament thine estate, and consider it seriously.
Which point might make us to take up a bitter lamentation for every naturall man.1 It is said, Exod. 12. 30. that there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not an house wherein there was not one found dead. Oh Lord, in some townes and families what a world of these are there? Dead Husband, dead wife, dead servants, dead children, walking up and downe with their sinnes (as Fame saith some men doe after death) with their grave-cloathes about them, and God onely knowes ⟨p. 48⟩whether ever they shall live againe or not. How doe men lament the losse of their dead friends! O thou hast a precious soul in thy bosome stark dead, therefore lament thine estate, and consider it seriously.
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