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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.
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 ⟨p. 50⟩wit, or hee may have a few short-winded wishes; but to powre out his soule in prayer, in the bosome of God, with groanes unutterable he cannot. I wonder not to see so many families without family prayer; Why? They are dead men, and lie rotting in their sinnes.
Eighthly. A dead man hath lost all beauty: So a mere natural man hath lost all glory: He is an ugly creature in the sight of God, good men and Angels, and shall one day be an abhorring to all flesh.