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[The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true believers, and the great difficulty…[The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty…
[The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true believers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion. ...][The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion. ...]
printed by S. Green?, 1664
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.
•nd who can promise himself with Hezekiah •ere shall be truth and peace in my days. Peace may fail thee, but let not Truth. •very good Christian may and should say, •ith the good King, there shall be truth in my days, if not Peace and Truth, as to revive the love of it. I will hold it fast by •ith, hold it forth by practise, praise God •ayly for it, and venture all in defence […] it▪ so did the Martyrs, whose memory •s sweet, whose reward is great. It is better suffering for truth, then with truth: yet •f truth must suffer or can die, better it is to die with Truth, then out-live it.
•nd who can promise himself with Hezekiah •ere shall be truth and peace in my dayes. Peace may fail thee, but let not Truth. •very good Christian may and should say, •ith the good King, there shall be truth in my dayes, if not Peace and Truth, as to revive the love of it. I will hold it fast by •ith, hold it forth by practise, praise God •ayly for it, and venture all in defence 〈…〉 it▪ so did the Martyres, whose memory •s sweet, whose reward is great. It is beter suffering for truth, then with truth: yet f truth must suffer or can die, better it is to die with Truth, then out-live it.