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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
THE SINCERE CONVERT. › Chapter 1: There is one most glorious GOD.
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.
2. That this God is most glorious.
I will begin with the first […] and prove (omitting many philosophical arguments) that there is a God, a true God; for every Nation almost in the world, until Christs coming, had a several God, Some worshipped the Sun, some the M••n, called by Ezekiel, The Queen of heaven;1 which some made cakes un•o; some the whole heavens, as some worshipped the fire some the brute beasts, some Baal, some Moloch. The Romans, saith Varro, had six thousand Gods▪ who imprisoning th• […] of nature,2 were given up to sin against nature: either to worship ⟨p. 2⟩Idols, of mans invention, as the ignorant: or God and Angels in those Idols, as the learned did: but these are all false Gods.
I will begin with the first 〈…〉 and prove (omitting many philosophical •rguments) that there is a God, a true God; for every Nation almost in the world, u•til Christs coming, had a several God, Some worshipped the Sun, some the M••n, called by Ezekiel, The Queen of heaven;1 which some made cakes un•o; some the whole heavens, as some worshipped the fire some the brute beasts, som• Baal, some Mol•ch. The Romanes, saith Virro, had six thousand Gods who imprisoing th of nature,