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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.
Thou hast painted thy face over now with good duties, and good desires; and a little honesty amongst some men, is of that worth and rarity, that they think God is beholding to them, if he can get any good action from them. But when thy painted ⟨p. 63⟩face shall be brought before the fire of Gods wrath, then thy vileness shall appear before men and Angels. Oh know it, that as thou doest nothing else but sin, so God heaps up wrath against the dreadful day of wrath.
Thou hast painted thy face over now with good dueties, and good desires; and a little honesty amongst some men, is of that worth and raritie, that they thinke God is beholding to them, if hee can get any good action from them. But when thy painted ⟨p. 63⟩face shall be brought before the fire of Gods wrath, then thy vilenesse shall appeare before men and Angels. Oh know it, that as thou doest nothing else but sinne, so God heapes up wrath against the dreadfull day of wrath.
Thus much for mans misery in regard of sin.
Thus much for mans misery in regard of sinne.
Now followeth his misery in regard of the consequents or miseries that follow upon sin. And these are,
Now followeth his misery in regard of the consequents or miseries that follow upon sinne. And these are,