The Sincere Convert

Secondly, the finer sort of unsound hollow professors, that have a Peacocks pride, that think themselves fair, and in a very good estate, though they have but one feather on their crest to boast of.

Secondly, the finer sort of unsound hollow professors, that have a Peacocks pride, that thinke themselves faire, and in a very good estate, though they have but one feather on their crest to boast of.

I will begin with the first sort,¹ and show you the reasons why they are ignorant of their misery, that is for these 4. Reasons.

I will begin with the first sort,¹ and shevv you the reasons why they are ignorant of their misery, that is for these 4. Reasons.

1. 1The 1. sort.

First, Sometimes because they want §1the saving means of knowledge.¹ There's no faithful Minister, no compassionate Lot to tell them of fire and brim-stone from heaven for their crying sins; there's no Noah to forewarn them of a flood; there's no messenger to bring them tidings of those Armies of Gods devouring plagues and wrath, that are approaching near unto them; they have no pilots, poor forsaken creatures to show them their rocks; they have either no Minister at all to teach them, either because the Parish is too poor, or the Church-living too great to maintain a faithful man (the strongest Asses carrying the greatest burdens commonly) O woeful Physicians! sometimes they be profane, and cannot heal themselves, and sometimes they be ignorant, and know no what to preach, unless they should follow