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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 must know that Christ hath married every believing Soul to himself,1 and that where the work of grace is begun, sin looses strength by every new fall. If there be a spring of sin in thee, there is a spring o• mercy in God, and a fountain daily opened to wash thy uncleanness in. Adam (indeed) lost all by once sinning; but we are under a better Covenant, a Covenant of Mercy, and are encouraged by the Son to go to the Father every day for the sins of that day.
Thou must know that Christ hath married every beleeving Soule to himsel•e,1 and that where the worke of grace is begun, sin looses strength by every new fall. If there be a spring of sinne in thee, there is a spring o• mercy in God, and a fountaine dialy opened to wash thy uncleanenesse in. Adam (indeed) lost all by once sinning; but we are under a better Covenant, a Covenant of Mercy, and are incouraged by the Sonne to goe to the Father every day for the sinnes of that day.
- 1Ans.
If I was willing to receive Christ,1 I might have Christ offered to me. But will ⟨p. 111⟩the Lord offer him to such a one as desires not to have Christ?
- 1Obj.