N00054:183
[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.
1. Thy soul shall be dragged out of thy b•dy, as out of a stinking prison, by the devil the Jailer, into s•me place within the bowels of the third heavens, ⟨p. 60⟩and there thou shalt stand stripped of all friends, all comfort, all creatures, before the presence of God, Luk. 19.27. as at the Assizes, first the jailer bringeth the prisoner out.
1. Thy soul shal be dragged out of thy b•dy, as out of a stinking pri•on, by the devil the J•yler, into s•me place within the bowels of the third heavens, ⟨p. 60⟩and there thou shalt stand stript of all friends, all comfort, all creatures, before the presence of God, Luk. 19.27. as at the Assizes, first the jay•or bringeth the prisoner out.
2. Then thy soul shall have a new §2light put into it, whereby it shall see the glorious presence of God, as prisoners brought with guilty eyes, look with terror upon the Judge. Now thou seest no God •broad in the world; but then thou shalt see the Almighty Jehovah, which sight shall strike thee with that hellish terror and dreadful horror, that thou shalt call to the mountains to cover thee: […] rocks, rocks, hide me from the face of th Lamb,