N00054:119
[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.
Thirdly, a dead man cannot be drawn use 3 to accept of the best offers. Let Christ come out of heaven, and fall about the neck of a natural man, and with tears in his eyes beseech him to take his blood, himself, his Kingdom, and leave his sins, he cannot receive this offer.
Fourthly, a dead man is stark blind, use 4 and can see nothing,1 and stark deaf and hears nothing: he cannot taste any thing; so a natural man is stark blind, he seeth no God, no Christ, no wrath of the Almighty, no glory of heaven: He heareth the voice of a man• but he heareth not the voice of God in a Sermon ••he •avoreth not the things of Gods Spirit.
Fourthly, a dead man is stark blind, use 4 and can see nothing,1 and stark deaf and hears nothing: he cannot taste any thing; so a natural man is stark blind, he seeth no God, no Christ, no wra•h of the Almighty, no glory of heaven: He heareth the voice of a man• but he heareth not the voice of God in a Sermon ••he •avoreth not the things of Gods Spirit.