A59669:282
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.
What hast thou now to plead against this strange kindness of the Lord in offering Christ to thee? Thou wilt say, it may be:
What hast thou now to plead against this strange kindnesse of the Lord in offering Christ to thee? Thou wilt say, it may be:
O! I fear time is past, Oh time is past.1 I might once have had Christ, but now mine heart is sealed down with hardness, blindness, unbelief; oh! time is now gone.
O! I feare time is past, Oh time is past.1 I might once have had Christ, but now mine heart is sealed downe with hardnesse, blindnesse, unbeliefe; oh! time is now gone.
- 1Obj.
No,1 not so, see Isai. 65. 1, 2, 3. All the day long God holdeth out his hands to a back-•l•ding and rebellious people. Thy day of grace, thy day of means, thy day of life, thy day of Gods striving with thee, and stirring of thee, still lasts.