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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.
This is the first Divine Truth, And there are these two parts considerable in it.
THis is the first Divine Truth, And there are these two parts considerable in it.
1. That there is a God. 2. That this God is most Glorious.
I will begin with the first part, and prove (omitting many philosophical ⟨p. 2⟩arguments) that there is a God, a true God: for every nation almost in the world, until Christs coming, had a several God. Some worshipped the Sun, some the Moon, called by Ezekiel, the Queen of Heaven, which some made Cakes unto: Some the whole Heavens, as some worshipped the Fire, 1some the brute beasts, some Ba•l, some Moloch. The Romans (saith Varro) had 6000 gods: who imprisoning the life of nature, were given up to sins against nature, either to worship Idols of mans invention,2 as the ignorant: or GOD and Angels in those Idols, as the learned did: but these are all false Gods.
I will beginne with the first part, and prove (omitting many philosophicall ⟨p. 2⟩arguments) that there is a God, a true God: for every nation almost in the world, untill Christs comming, had a severall God. Some worshipped the Sunne, some the Moone, called by Ezechiel, the Queene of Heaven, which some made Cakes unto: Some the whole Heavens, as some worshipped the Fire,