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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.
IV. False applying of true promises, is the last cause of false peace. And when a man hath Gods Spirit within, and Gods hand and promise (as he thinks) for his est••e, now he thinks all safe. Thus did the Jews, they said, We have Abraham to our Father, and so reputed themselves safe, God having made them promise, I will be a God of thee, and of thy seed. But here is a difference between a child of Gods application of them & a wicked mans; the first applieth them so to him, as that he liveth upon them,1 and nothing but them; and to whom doth the dug belong, but to the child that liveth upon it. The other lives upon ⟨p. 209⟩his lusts, and creatures, and yet catcheth hold on the promise.
IV. False applying of true promises, is the last cause of false peace. And when a man hath Gods Spirit within, and Gods hand and promise (as he thinks) for his est••e, now he thinkes all safe. Thus did the Iewes, they said, Wee have Abraham to our Father, and so reputed themselves safe, God having made them promise, I will be a God of thee, and of thy seed. But here is a difference betweene a child of Gods application of them & a wicked mans; the first applieth them so to him, as that he liveth upon them,1 and nothing but them; and to whom doth the dugge belong, but to the childe that liveth upon it. The other lives upon ⟨p. 209⟩his lusts, and creatures, and yet catcheth hold on the promise.