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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.
5. It is a most heavy sin. What sin will gripe so in Hell, as this? Joh. 3. 19. God the Father shall strike the Devils for breaking the Law of the Creation, but God the Son shall strike thee, and the Comforter himself shall set himself against thee, for despising the means and offers of ⟨p. 117⟩Redemption. The Devils might never have had mercy, but thou shalt think with anguish, and vexation, and madness of heart, I might have had a Christ, he was offered unto me; mercy wooed this stubborn proud heart to yield. But, O Rock of Adamant that I was, it did not affect me. Oh fly speedily to this City of Refuge, least the pursuer of blood overtake thee.
5. It is a most heavy sinne. What sinne will gripe so in Hell, as this? Ioh. 3. 19. God the Father shall strike the Devils for breaking the Law of the Creation, but God the Sonne shall strike thee, and the Comforter himselfe shall set himselfe against thee, for despising the meanes and offers of ⟨p. 117⟩Redemption. The Devils might never have had mercy, but thou shalt think with anguish, and vexation, and madnesse of heart, I might have had a Christ, he was offered unto me; mercy wooed this stubborne proud heart to yeeld. But, O Rocke of Adamant that I was, it did not affect me. Oh fly speedily to this Citie of Refuge, least the pursuer of bloud overtake thee.
Away then out of your selves to the Lord Jesus.1 Heaven and earth leave thee, and have forsaken thee; now there is but one more that can do thee good, and deliver thy soul from endless sorrow: go to him, and take hold on him, not with the hand of presumption and love to thy self to save thy self, but with the hand of faith, and love to him to honour him.