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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.
4. All their religious actions are sins, as coming to Church. Praying. Pr•. §415. 8, 9, 28. 9. Fasting and mourning roar and cry out of thy self till dooms day,1 they are sins, Isa. 58.
4. All their religious actions are sins, as comming to Church. Praying. Pr•. §415. 8, 9, 28. 9. Fasting and mourning roare and cry out of thy self till dooms day,1 they are sins, Isa. 58.
5. All their most Zealous Actions §5are sins, as Jehu who killed all Baals Priests; because his action was outwardly and materially good, therefore God rewarded him with temporal favours; but because he had a Hawk's eye to get and settle a Kingdom to himself by this means, and so was Theologically evil, therefore God threatens to be revenged upon him. 2. King. 10.
5. All their most Zealous Actions §5are sinnes, as Iehu who killed all Baals Priests; because his action was outwardly and materially good, therefore God rewarded him with temporall favours; but because hee had a Hawkes eye to get and settle a Kingdome to himselfe by this meanes, and so was Theologically evill, therefore God threatens to bee revenged upon him.