N00054:171
[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.
Lastly, They are ready every moment §VIIto drop into hell. God is a consuming fire against thee, and there is but one paper wall of thy body between thy soul, and eternal flames. How soon may God stop thy breath, th•re is nothing but that between thee and hell; if that were gone, then farewell all. Thou art condemned, and the muffler is before thine eyes, God knoweth, how soon the ladder may be turned: thou hangest but by one rotten twined thread of thy life, over the flames of hell eve•y hour.1
Lastly, They are ready every moment §VIIto drop into hell. God is a consuming fire against thee, and there is but one paper wall of thy body between thy soul, and eternal flames. How soon may God stop thy breath, th•re is nothing but that between thee and hell; if that were gone, then farewell all. Thou art condemned, and the muffler is before thine eyes, God knoweth, how soon the ladder may be turned: thou hang•st but by one rotten twined threed of thy life, over the flames of hell eve•y hour.1
- 1Mans future miseries
Thus much of mans present miseries.