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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.
5. When thus the Judge and Justices are upon their B•nch at Christs right hand on their thron•s, then shall the guilty prisoners be brought forth, and come out of their graves like filthy toads against this terrible storm: Then shall all the wicked that ever were or ever shall be, stand quaking before this glorious Judge, with the same bodies, feet, hands, to receive their doom.
5. When thus the Iudge and Iustices are upon their B•nch at Christs right hand on their thron•s, then shall the guilty pr•soners be brought forth, and come out of their graves like filthy toades against this terrible storme: Then shall all the wicked that ever were or ever shall be, stand quaking before this glorious Iudge, with the same bodyes, feete, hands, to receive their doome.
Oh consider of this day thou that livest in thy sins now, and yet art safe, there is a day coming wherein thou mayest and shalt be judged.
Oh consider of this day thou that livest in thy sinnes now, and yet art safe, there is a day comming wherein thou mayest and shalt be judged.
1. Consider who shall be thy Judge:§1 why, mercy, pity, goodness it self, even Jesus Christ that many times held out his bowers of compassion towards thee. A child of God may say, yonder is my brother, friend, husband. But thou mayest say, yonder is mine enemy. He may say at that day, yonder is he that shed his blood to save me; thou mayest say, yonder he comes whose heart I have pierced with my sins, whose blood I have despised. They may say, O come Lord Jesus, and cover me under thy wings: But thou shalt then cry out, O Rocks fall upon me and hide me from the face of the Lamb.