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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.
Thirdly, The presumptuous unbeliever▪ that seeing what sins he hath committed, and it may be having a little touch and some sorrow for his sins, catcheth at Christ, hoping to be saved by him before ever he come to be loaden with sin as the greatest evil, or Gods wrath kindled against him as his greatest curse; and so catching at Christ, hopes he hath Christ, and hoping he hath Christ already, shuts ⟨p. 151⟩out Christ for the future, and so rejects him. Mich. 3. 11. You shall have these men and women complain never of the want, but only of the weakness of their Faith, & they will not be beaten off from thence; let them hear never so much of their misery, nor see never so much of their sins, yet they will not be beaten off from trusting to Christ.
Thirdly, The presumptuous unbeleever▪ that seeing what sinnes he hath committed, and it may be having a little touch and some sorrow for his sinnes, catcheth at Christ, hoping to be saved by him before ever he come to be loaden with sinne as the greatest evill, or Gods wrath kindled against him as his greatest curse; and so catching at Christ, hopes he hath Christ, and hoping he hath Christ already, shuts ⟨p. 151⟩out Christ for the future, and so rejects him. Mich. 3. 11. You shall have these men and women complaine never of the want, but onely of the weaknesse of their Faith, & they will not be beaten off from thence; let them heare never so much of their misery, nor see never so much of their sinnes, yet they will not be beaten off from trusting to Christ.
Fourthly, The tottering doubtful unbeliever,