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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.
First,1 a dead man cannot stir, nor offer to stir. A wicked man cannot speak one good word, or do any good action, if heaven it self did lye at stake for doing of it, nor offer to shake off his sins, nor think one good thought. Indeed he may speak and think of good things, but he cannot have good speeches, nor good thoughts; as an holy man may think of evil things, as of the sins of the times, yet the thought of those evil things is good, not evil, so, è contra.
First,1 a dead man cannot stir, nor offer to stir. A wicked man cannot speake one good word, or do any good action, if heaven it selfe did lye at stake for doing of it, nor offer to shake off his sins, nor thinke one good thought. Indeed he may speak and think of good things, but he cannot have good speeches, nor good thoughts; as an holy man may thinke of evill things, as of the sinnes of the times, yet the thought of those evill things is good, not evill, so, è contra.
- 1How every Natural man is dead while he liv••.How every Naturall man is dead while he liv••.
Secondly, A dead man fears no dangers, though never so great, though never so near. Let Ministers bring a natural man tidings of the approach of the devouring plagues of God denounced, he fears them not.
Secondly, A dead man feares no dangers, though never so great, though never so neare. Let Ministers bring a naturall man tidings of the approach of the devouring plagues of God denounced, he feares them not.