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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.
1. The sin of thine heart or nature,1 its the cause, the womb that contains, breeds, brings forth, suckles all the bitter, all the troop of sins that are in the life, and therefore giving life and being §1to all other, its the greatest sin.
1. The sin of thine heart or nature,1 its the cause, the wombe that conteines, breeds, brings forth, suckles all the bitter, all the troope of sins that are in the life, and therefore giving life and being §1to all other, its the greatest sin.
- 1Sins of the heart worse than the sins of the life.
2. Sin is more abundantly in the heart than in the life. An actual sin is but a little breach made by the sea of sin in thine heart, where all sin, all poison is met and mingled together. Every actual sin is but as a shred broken off from the great bottom of sin in the heart, and hence Christ ⟨p. 56⟩saith, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, and out of the evil treasure of the heart we bring forth evil things. A mans spending money (I mean sin in the life) is nothing to his treasure of sin in the heart.
2. Sinne is more abundantly in the heart than in the life. An actuall sinne is but a little breach made by the sea of sinne in thine heart, where all sinne, all poison is met and mingled together. Every actuall sinne is but as a shred broken off from the great botrome of sinne in the heart, and hence Christ ⟨p. 56⟩