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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.
3. Then all the sins that ever §3thou hast or shalt commit, shall come fresh to thy mind; as when the prisoner is come before the face of the Judge, then his accusers bring in their evidence; thy sleepy Conscience then will be instead of a thousand witnesses, and every sin then with all the circumstances of it, shall be set in order, armed with Gods wrath round about thee, Psal. 50. 21. as letters writ with juice of Oranges cannot be read until it be brought unto the fire, and then they appear; thou canst not read that bloody bill of indictment thy conscience hath against thee now; but when thou shalt stand near unto God a consuming fire, then what an heavy ⟨p. 78⟩reckoning will appear. It may be thou hast left many sins now, and goest so far, and profitest so much, that no Christian can discern thee, nay, thou thinkest thy self in a safe estate; but yet there is one leak in thy Ship that will sink thee; there is one secret hidden sin in thine heart, which thou livest in, as all unsound people do, that will damn thee. I tell thee, as soon as ever thou art dead and gone, then thou shalt see where the knot did bind thee, where thy sin was that now hath spoiled thee for ever, and then thou shalt grow mad to think; ô that I never saw this sin I loved, lived in, plotted, perfected mine own eternal ruin by, until now, when it is too late to amend.
3. Then all the sinnes that ever §3thou hast or shalt commit, shall come fresh to thy minde; as when the prisoner is come before the face of the Judge, then his accusers bring in their evidence; thy sleepy Conscience then will be instead of a thousand witnesses, and every sinne then with all the circumstances of it, shall be set in order, armed with Gods wrath round about thee, Psal. 50. 21. as letters writ with juice of Oranges cannot be read untill it be brought unto the fire, and then they appeare; thou canst not read that bloudy bill of indiotment thy conscience hath against thee now; but when thou shalt stand neere unto God a consuming fire, then what an heavy ⟨p. 78⟩