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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. Thou shalt take up thy lodging §4for ever with Devils, and they shall be thy companions: Him thou hast served here, with him must thou dwell there. It scares men out of their wits almost to see the Devil, as they think, when they be alone; but what horror ⟨p. 94⟩shall fill thy soul when thou shalt be banished from Angels society, and come into the fellowship of Devils for ever?1
4. Thou shalt take up thy lodging §4for ever with Devills, and they shall be thy companions: Him thou hast served here, with him must thou dwell there. It scares men out of their wits almost to see the Devill, as they think, when they be alone; but what horrour ⟨p. 94⟩shall fill thy soule when thou shalt be banished from Angels societie, and come into the fellowship of Devills for ever?1
5. Thou shalt be filled with final despair. If a man be grievously sick, it comforts him to think it will not last long. But if the Physician tell him he must live all his life time in this extremity, he thinks the poorest beggar in a better estate than himself. Oh to think when thou hast been millions of years in thy sorrows, then thou art no nearer thy end of bearing thy misery, then at the first coming in; Oh I might once have had mercy and Christ, but no hope now ever to have one glimpse of his face, or one good look from him any more.