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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.
1.1 He is a Spirit, or a spiritual God, John 4. 24. therefore abhors all worship and all duties performed without the influence of the spirit; as to confess §1thy sins without shame or sorrow, and to say the Lords Prayer without understanding, to hear the word that thou mayest only know more, and not that thou mayest be affected more; oh these carcasses of holy duties are most odious sacrifices before God.
1.1 He is a Spirit, or a spirituall God, Iohn 4. 24. therefore abhorres all worship and all duties performed without the influence of the spirit; as to confesse §1thy sins without shame or sorrow, and to say the Lords Prayer without understanding, to heare the word that thou mayest onely know more, and not that thou mayest bee affected more; oh these carkasses of holy duties are most odious sacrifices before God.
- 1An explanation of Gods Attributes.
2. He is a living God, whereby he §2liveth of himself, and gives life to all ⟨p. 18⟩other things. Away then with thy dead heart to this principle of life to quicken thee, that his Almighty power may pluck thee out of thy Sepulchre, unloose thy grave-locks that so thou mayest live.