The Sincere Convert

Lastly, I suspect those men that never found out this thief, this sin, that was bred and born with them nor saw it in their own hearts, but there it lies still in some dark corner of their souls to cut their throats: these ⟨p. 12⟩kind of men sometimes suspect there is no God: O this is a grievous sin; for if no God; no heaven, no hell; no martyrs, no prophets, no Scriptures. Christ was then an horrible liar, and an Impostor. Other sins wrong and grieve God and wound him, but this sin stabs the very heart of God, it strikes at the life, and is (as much as lies in sinful man) the death of God: for it saith, there is no God:

Lastly, I suspect those men that never found out this thiefe, this sinne, that was bred and born with them nor saw it in their owne hearts, but there it lies still in some darke corner of their soules to cut their throates: these ⟨p. 12⟩kind of men sometimes suspect there is no God: O this is a grievous sinne; for if no God; no heaven, no hell; no martyrs, no prophets, no Scriptures. Christ was then an horrible lyer, and an Impostor. Other sinnes wrong and grieve God and wound him, but this sinne stabs the very heart of God, it strikes at the life, and is (as much as lies in sinfull man) the death of God: for it saith, there is no God:

Secondly, This reproveth Atheists in practice, which say there is a God, and question it not, but in works they deny him. He that plucks the King from his throne, is as vile as he that saith he is no King. These men are almost as bad as Atheists in opinion. And of such dust-heaps we may find in every Corner, that in their practice deny God, men that set up other gods in Gods room, their wealth, their honour, their pleasure, their merits, their backs and bellies to be their gods: men that make bold to do that against this true God, which Idolaters dare not do against their ⟨p. 13⟩