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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.
Fourthly, A dead man is stark §4blind and can see nothing,1 and stark deaf and hears nothing, he cannot taste any thing: so a natural man is stark blind, he sees no God, no Christ, no wrath of the Almighty, no glory of Heaven. He hears the voice of a man, but he hears not the voice of God in a Sermon; he savoureth not the things of Gods Spirit.
Fourthly, A dead man is starke §4blinde and can see nothing,1 and starke deafe and heares nothing, hee cannot taste any thing: so a naturall man is starke blind, he sees no God, no Christ, no wrath of the Almighty, no glory of Heaven. He heares the voyce of a man, but he heares not the voyce of God in a Sermon; hee savoureth not the things of Gods Spirit.
- 1Mar. 23. 37. 38.
Fifthly, A dead man is senseless, and §5feels nothing: so, cast mountains of sin upon a wicked man, he feels no hurt, until the flames of hell break out upon him.
Fifthly, A dead man is senselesse, and §5seeles nothing: so, cast mountaines of sinne upon a wicked man, he feeles no hurt, untill the flames of hell break out upon him.