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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.
7. If they have no rest here in their morality, they grow hot within, and turn marvellous zealous for good causes and courses, and there they stay and warm themselves at their own fire:1 thus Paul, Philip. 3. 6. was zealous and there rested. They will not live as many do, like snails in their shells, but rather than they will be damned for want of doing, they are content to give away their estate, children, any thing almost to get pardon for the sin of their soul, Mich. 6. 7.
7. If they have no rest here in their moralitie, they grow hot within, and turne marvellous zealous for good causes and courses, and there they stay and warme themselves at their owne fire:1 thus Paul, Philip. 3. 6. was zealous and there rested. They will not live as many doe, like snailes in their shells, but rather than they will be damned for want of doing, they are content to give away their estate, children, any thing almost to get pardon for the sinne of their soule, Mich. 6. 7.
8. If they find no help from hence, ⟨p. 239⟩but are forced to see and say, when they have done all, they are unprofitable servants• and they sin in all that which they do; then they rest in that which is like unto Evangelical Obedience, they think to please God by mourning for their failings in their good duties, desiring to be better, and promising for the time to come to be so, and therein rest,