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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.
Use 3. 1Oh make choice of this God as thy God. What though there be a God, if it be not thy God, what art thou the better? Down with all thy Idol gods, and set up this God, If there be any creature that ever did thee any good, that God set not a work for thy good, love that, think on that, as thy God. If there be any thing that can give thee any succour on thy death-bed, or when thou art departed from this world, take that to be thy God. Thou mightest have been borne in I•dea. and never have heard of this true Go•, ⟨p. 15⟩but worshipped the Devil for thy God: O therefore make choice of him alone to be thy God; give away thy self wholly and for ever to him, and he will give away his whole self everlastingly unto thee. Seek him weeping, and thou shalt find him. Bind thy self by the Strongest oaths and bonds in covenant to be his, and he will enter into covenant with thee, and so be thine, Jer. 40. 5.
Vse 3. 1Oh make choice of this God as thy God. What though there bee a God, if it be not thy God, what art thou the better? Downe with all thy Idoll gods, and set up this God, If there be any creature that ever did thee any good, that God fet not a work for thy good, love that, think on that, as thy God. If there be any thing that can give thee any succour on thy death-bed, or when thou art departed from this world, take that to be thy God. Thou mightest have beene borne in I•dea. and never have heard of this true Go•, ⟨p. 15⟩but worshipped the Devill for thy God: O therefore make choyce of him alone to be thy God; give away thy selfe wholly and for ever to him, and he will give away his whole selfe everlastingly unto thee. Seeke him weeping, and thou shalt find him. Binde thy selfe by the Strongest oathes and bonds in covenant to be his, and hee will enter into covenant with thee, and so be thine,