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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.
The Schoolmen and Fathers have many curious,1 (yet some necessary) though difficult questions about this. I will omit all theirs, and tell you only what is the APOSTLES judgement,2 Colossians 3. 20. out of which this general description of GOD s Image may be thus gathered.3 It is mans perfection of Holiness, resembling GODs admirable holiness, whereby only man pleaseth God.
The Schoolmen and Fathers have many curious,1 (yet some necessary) though difficult questions about this. I will omit all theirs, and tell you only what is the APOSTLES judgement,2 Colossians 3. 20. out of which this generall description of GOD s Image may bee thus gathered.3 It is mans perfection of Holinesse, resembling GODs admirable holinesse, whereby onely man pl•aseth God.
- 1Ans.
- 2Eph. 4. 23
- 3The Image of God in Man.
For, all other inferior Creatures did carry the works and footsteps of GODs power, wisdom, goodness, whereby all these Attributes were seen. Now the most perfect Attributes of God, that is, his Holiness, that he would have only appear in, and be made manifest by man, his best inferior creature, as a Kings wisdom and bounty appears in managing the affairs of all his Kingdom; but his