A59669:341

The Sincere Convert

Name: The Sincere Convert
Author: Thomas Shepard

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 ....

Thomas Shepard 1605–1649London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Humphrey Blunden, 1641

[18], 266 p. · 52k words · Wing S3118 · ESTC R9618

Title page of the 1640 edition: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

THE SINCERE CONVERT. › Chapter 5

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.

[ Earlier:338–353 of 562

:338p. 132§2

Thou wilt say happily,¹ first, I have left my sins I once lived in, and am now no drunkard, no swearer, no liar, &c.

Thou wilt say happily,¹ first, I have left my sinnes I once lived in, and am now no drunkard, no swearer, no lyer, &c.

1Obj. 1.

:339p. 132§2

I answer,¹ thou mayest be washed from thy mire, (the pollution of the world,) and yet be a swine in Gods account, 2 Pet. 2. 20. thou mayst live a blameless, innocent, honest, smooth life, and yet be a miserable creature still, Phil. 3. 6.

I answer,¹ thou mayest be washt from thy mire, (the pollution of the world,) and yet be a swine in Gods account, 2 Pet. 2. 20. thou mayst live a blamelesse, innocent, honest, smooth life, and yet be a miserable creature still, Phil. 3. 6.

1Ans.

[ Earlier passages Later passages ]

The book

Title as printed

Author

Thomas Shepard 1605–1649

Place

London

Printer

T.P. and M.S.

Bookseller

Humphrey Blunden

Year

1641

Size

[18], 266 p.

Words

51,762

Catalogue

Wing S3118 · ESTC R9618

Text

EEBO-TCP A59669

Passages

562

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36