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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.
CHAP. II.
That this God made all mankind at first in a most glorious and happy estate like unto himself.
THat this God made all mankind at first in a most glorious and happy estate like unto himselfe.
For the opening of which Assertion I have chosen this Text, Eccles. 7. 29. God made man righteous, which clearly demonstrates;1 That GOD made all mankind at first in Adam, in a most glorious, happy, and righteous estate; Man when he came first out of Gods mint, shined most glorious. There's a marvellous glory in all Creatures, (the servants and household stuff of man,) therefore there was a greater glory in man himself, the end of them. God calleth a Parliament, and gathers a Council when man was to be made; and said, Come, let us make man in our own Image; as though all the Wisdom of the Trinity should be seen in the creation of man.
For the opening of which Assertion I have chosen this Text, Eccles. 7. 29. God made man righteous, which clearely demonstrates;1 That GOD made all mankind at first in Adam, in a most glorious, happy, and righteous estate; Man when he came first out of Gods mint, shined most glorious. There's a marvellous glory in all Creatures, (the servants and houshold stuffe of man,) therfore there was a greater glory in man himselfe, the end of them. God calleth a Parliament, and gathers a Councell when man was to bee made; and said, Come, let us make man in our owne Image; as though all the Wisedome of the Trinity should be seene in the creation of man.