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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.
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.
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 doe thee good, and deliver thy soule from endlesse sorrow: goe to him, and take hold on him, not with the hand of presumption and love to thy selfe to save thy selfe, but with the hand of faith, and love to him to honour him.
- 1Use 5.Vse 5.
I am well enough already,1 what tell you me of Christ?
- 1Ob.
This is the damning sin of these times,1 when men have Christ offered unto them, foretelling them else of wrath to come, they say they are well; hence feeling no judgement here, they fear no wrath hereafter; hence being well, they feel no need of Christ; hence till they dye, they never seek out for a Saviour. Men will not come into the Ark already made for them, before the flood arise. The world makes so