The Sincere Convert

8. He is a True God; whereby he §8means to do as he saith. Let every Child of God therefore know to his comfort, that those things which he hath not under feelings, but under a promise, shall one day be all made good: and let all wicked men know, what ever threatening God hath denounced, whatsoever Arrows are in the bowstring, will one day fly, and hit and strike deep, and the longer the Lord is a drawing, the deeper wound will Gods arrow, (that is, Gods threatening) make.

8. Hee is a True God; whereby he §8meanes to doe as he saith. Let every Child of God therefore know to his comfort, that those things which hee hath not under feelings, but under a promise, shall one day be all made good: and let all wicked men know, what ever threatning God hath denounced, whatsoever Arrowes are in the bowstring, will one day fly, and hit and strike deepe, and the longer the Lord is a drawing, the deeper wound will Gods arrow, (that is, Gods threatning) make.

9. He is an holy God: Be not ashamed §9therefore of holiness, which if it ascend above the common strain of honesty, the blind and mad world accounts ⟨p. 22⟩it madness, If the righteous, that is, those that be most holy be scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly, and the sinner appear, 1 Peter 4. 18. Where? Not before Saints and Angels, for holiness is their trade; Not before the face of the man Christ Jesus, for holiness was his meat and drink; Not before the face of a blessed God, for holiness is his Nature; Not in Heaven, for no unclean thing crawls there; they shall never see God, Christ, Saints, Angels, or Heaven to their comfort, that are not holy: wear therefore that as thy crown now, which will be thy glory in Heaven, and if this be to be vile, be more vile.