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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.
Now look as Masters give their servants peace, even so the devil.
Now looke as Masters give their servants peace, even so the devill.
1. By removing all things that may trouble them: and
2. By giving unto them all things that may quiet and comfort them, as meat, drink, rest, lodging, &c. so doth Satan deal with his slaves and servants.
2. By giving unto them all things that may quiet and comfort them, as meat, drinke, rest, lodging, &c. so doth Sathan deale with his slaves and servants.
First, by removing those sins which trouble the conscience; for a man may live in a sin, and yet never be troubled for that sin; for sin against the light of conscience only troubles the conscience; as children that are tumbling and playing in the dust, they are not troubled with all the dust, nay, they take pleasure to wallow in it; but only with that (whether it be small or great) that lights in their eyes. And hence that young man came boasting