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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.
First,1 Here then is an use of encouragement. Be not discouraged by the name of singularity. What? do you think your self wiser than others? and shall none be saved but such as are so precise as Ministers prate? are you wiser then others, that you think none shall go to heaven but your self? I tell you, if you would be saved, you must be singular men,2 not out of fashion, but out of conscience, Act. 24. 16.
First,1 Here then is an use of incouragement. Be not discouraged by the name of singularitie. What? doe you thinke your selfe wiser than others? and shall none be saved but such as are so precise as Ministers prate? are you wiser then others, that you thinke none shall goe to heaven but your self? I tell you, if you would be saved, you must be singular men,2 not out of fashion, but out of conscience, Act. 24. 16.
- 1Use 1.Vse 1.
- 2Tit. 2. 14.
Secondly,1 here is matter of terror to all those that be of opinion, that few shall be saved; and therefore when they are convinced of the danger of sin by the Word, thy fly to this shelter, if I