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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.
Fourthly, The tottering doubtful unbeliever, §4one that is in a question whether he had best have Christ or no. He seeth some good in Christ that he would gladly have him for, as, there I shall have Heaven, and pardon, and grace, and peace, and yet he seeth many things he dislikes with Christ; as, namely, then farewell merry meetings, pastimes, Cards and Dice, pleasure and sinful games; and hence they totter this way and that way, not knowing whether they had best have Christ or no, Jam. 1. 6, 7. these people reject Jesus Christ.
Fourthly, The tottering doubtfull unbeleever, §4one that is in a question whether he had best have Christ or no. He seeth some good in Christ that he would gladly have him for, as, there I shall have Heaven, and pardon, and grace, and peace, and yet he seeth many things he dislikes with Christ; as, namely, then farewell merry meetings, pastimes, Cards and Dice, pleasure and sinfull games; and hence they totter this way and that way, not knowing whether they had best have Christ or no, Iam. 1. 6, 7. these people reject Jesus Christ.