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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.
Seventhly,1 Despair of Gods mercy: hence, like Cain, men are Runagates from the face of God; men think they shall never find mercy when all is done: hence they grow desperately sinful; like those Italian Senators, that despairing of their lives (when upon submission they had been ⟨p. 222⟩promised their lives, yet) being conscious of their villainy, made a curious banquet, & at the end of it, every man drank up his glass of poison, & killed himself: so men feeling such horrible hard hearts, and being privy to such notorious sins, they cast away lives, and heaven, and souls for lust, and so perish woefully, because they lived desperately, and so securely.
Seventhly,1 Despaire of Gods mercy: hence, like Cain, men are Runnagates from the face of God; men thinke they shall never finde mercy when all is done: hence they grow desperately sinfull; like those Italian Senators, that despairing of their lives (when upon submission they had been ⟨p. 222⟩promised their lives, yet) being •onscious of their villany, made a curious banquet, & at the end of it, every man dranke up his glasse of poyson, & killed himselfe: so men feeling such horrible hard hearts, and being privie to such notorious sinnes, they cast away lives, and heaven, and soules for lust, and so perish wofully, because they lived desperately, and so securely.
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Eighthly,1