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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.
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.
Sixthly, A dead man is a speechless man, he cannot speak unless it be like §6a Parrot.
Sixtly, A dead man is a speechlesse man, he cannot speake unlesse it be like §6a Parret.
Seventhly, he is a breathless man; §7A natural man may say a Prayer, or devise a prayer out of his memory and ⟨p. 50⟩wit, or he may have a few short-winded wishes; but to pour out his soul in prayer, in the bosom of God, with groans unutterable he cannot. I wonder not to see so many families without family prayer; Why? They are dead men, and lie rotting in their sins.
Seventhly, he is a breathlesse man; §7A naturall man may say a Prayer, or devise a prayer out of his memory and