The Sincere Convert

I am now to prove that there is one true God, the being of beings, or the first being. Although the proving of this point seems needless, because every man runs with the cry, and saith there is a God; yet few throughly believe this point. Many of the children of God, who are best able to know mens hearts, because they only study their ⟨p. 3⟩hearts, feel this temptation, Is there a God? bitterly assaulting them sometimes. The Devil will sometimes undermine, and seek to blow up the strongest walls and bulwarks. The light of nature indeed shows, that there is a God; but how many are there, that, by foul sins against their conscience, blow out and extinguish almost all the light of Nature? and hence though they dare not conclude, because they have some light, though dim; yet if they saw their heart, they might see it secretly suspect, and question whether there be a God: but grant that none questions this truth, yet we that are builders, must not fall to a work, without our main props and pillars: It may appear there fore that there is a God, from these grounds.

I am now to prove that there is one true God, the being of beings, or the first being. Although the proving of this point seemes needlesse, because every man runs with the cry, and saith there is a God; yet few throughly beleeve this point. Many of the children of God, who are best able to know mens hearts, because they onely study their ⟨p. 3⟩hearts, feele this temptation, Is there a God? bitterly assaulting them sometimes. The Devill will sometimes undermine, and seeke to blow up the strongest walls and bulwarks. The light of nature indeed shewes, that there is a God; but how many are there, that, by foule sinnes against their conscience, blow out and extinguish almost all the light of Nature? and hence though they dare not conclude, because they have some light, though dimme; yet if they saw their heart, they might see it secretly suspect, and question whether there bee a God: but grant that none questions this truth, yet we that are builders, must not fall to a worke, without our maine props and pillars: It may appeare there fore that there is a God, from these grounds.