[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…

First, a dead man cannot stir,¹ nor offer to stir. A wicked man cannot speak one good word, or do any good action, if heaven it self •id lye at stake for doing of it, nor offer to shake off his sins, nor ⟨p. 38⟩think one good thought. Indeed he may speak and think […] good things, but he cannot have good speeches, nor good thoughts: as in holy man may think of evil things, as of the […] of the times, yet the thought of those evil things i• good, not evil, so è contra.

First, a dead man cannot stirre,¹ nor offer to stir. A wicked man cannot speak one good word, or do any good action, if heaven it self •id lye at stake for doing of it, nor offer to shake off his sins, nor ⟨p. 38⟩think one good thought. Indeed he may speak and think 〈…〉 good things, but he cannot have good speeches, nor good thoghts: as in holy man may think of evil things, as of the 〈…〉 of the times, yet the thought of those evil things i• good, not evil, so è contra.

1. 1How every natural man is dead while he lives.How every natural mā is dead while he lives.

Secondly, a dead man feareth no dangers, use 2 though never so great, though never so near. Let Ministers bring a natural man tidings of the approach of the devouring plagues of God denounced, he feareth them not.