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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.
1. He is Glorious in his Essence. 1Now what this Glory is, no man or §1Angel hath, doth, or ever shall know; their cockle-shell can never comprehend this sea; he must have the wisdom of God, and so be a God, that comprehendeth the Essence of God: but though it cannot be comprehended, what it is, yet it may be apprehended, that it is incomprehensible and glorious, which makes his glory to be the more admired, as we admire the lustre of the Sun the more, in that is is so great we cannot behold it.
1. Hee is Glorious in his Essence. 1Now what this Glory is, no man or §1Angell hath, doth, or ever shall know; their cockle-shell can never comprehend this sea; he must have the wisedome of God, and so bee a God, that comprehendeth the Essence of God: but though it cannot be comprehen•ed, what it is, yet it may be apprehended, that it is incomprehensible and glorious, which makes his glory to be the more admired, as wee admire the lustre of the Sunne the more, in that is is so great we cannot behold it.
- 1Gods Essence.
2. God is Glorious in his Attributes, wch are those Divine perfections whereby he makes himself known unto us. ⟨p. 17⟩Which Attributes are not qualities in God, but natures. Gods Wisdom is GOD Himself, and GODs Power is GOD Himself, &c. Neither are they diverse things in God, but they are divers only in regard of our understanding, and in regard of their different effects, on different objects. GOD punishing the wicked is the justice of GOD; God compassionating the miserable is the mercy of God.