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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.
I will show you briefly the manner and nature of it in these particulars.
I will shew you briefly the manner and nature of it in these particulars.
1. Thy soul shall be dragged out of thy body, as out of a st••king prison, by the Devil the Jailer, into some place within the bowels of the third Heavens, and there thou shalt stand stripped of all Friends, all comfort, all creatures, before the presence of God, Luk. 19. 27. as at the Assizes first the Jailer brings the prisoners out.
1. Thy soule shall be dragged out of thy body, as out of a st••king prison, by the Devill the Jaylor, into some place within the bowels of the third Heavens, and there thou shalt stand stript of all Friends, all comfort, all creatures, before the presence of God, Luk. 19. 27. as at the Assizes first the Jaylor brings the prisoners out.
2. Then thy soul shall have a new light put into it, whereby it shall see the glorious presence of God, as prisoners brought with guilty eyes, look with ⟨p. 77⟩terror upon the Judge. Now, thou seest no God abroad in the world, but then thou shalt see the Almighty Jeho. vah, which sight shall strike thee with that Hellish terror and dreadful horror, that thou shalt call to the mountains to cover thee, ô Rocks, Rocks, hide me from the face of the Lamb,