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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.
Secondly, Give away all thy sins to Christ, confess them, leave them, cast them upon the Lord Jesus, so as to receive power from him to forsake them. And he will be made sin for thee, to take them away from thee, 1 Joh. 1. 9.
Secondly, Give away all thy sinnes to Christ, confesse them, leave them, cast them upon the Lord Jesus, so as to receive power from him to forsake them. And he will be made sinne for thee, to take them away from thee, 1 Ioh. 1. 9.
Thirdly, give away thine honour, §3pleasure, profit, life, for him; he will give away his Crown and honour, life and all to thee, Luk, 18. Let nothing be sweet unto thee but him, and nothing shall be sweet unto him but thee.
Thirdly, give away thine honour, §3pleasure, profit, life, for him; he will give away his Crowne and honour, life and all to thee, Luk, 18. Let nothing be sweet unto thee but him, and nothing shall be sweet unto him but thee.
Fourthly, give away thy Rags, forsake §4thine own Righteousness for him; he will give away all his Robes and Righteousness to thee, Phil. 3. 8, 9. Thou shalt stand as glorious in the sight of God, howsoever thou art a poor sneak in thy self, as an Angel, nay, as all the Angels, because clothed with his Son Christ Jesus his Righteousness.