[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…

Secondly, the finer sort of unsound hollow professors, that have a peacocks pride, ⟨p. 126⟩that think themselves fair, and in a very good estate, though they have but one feather on their breast to boast of.

Secondly, the finer sort of unsound hollow professors, that have a peacoks pride, ⟨p. 126⟩that think themselves fair, and in a very good estate, though they have but one feather on their brest to boast of.

I will begin with the first sort, and show you the reasons why they are ignorant of their misery, that is for these four reasons.

First, sometimes because they want the saving means of knowledge. There is no faithful Minister, no compassionate Lot, to tell them of fire and brimstone from heaven, for their crying sins. There is no Noah to forwarn them of a flood: There is no messenger to bring them tidings of those armies of Gods devouring plagues and wrath, that are approaching near unto them, They have no pilots, poor forsaken creatures, to show them their rocks. They have either no Minister at all to reach them, either because the Parish is too poor, or the Church-living too great to maintain a faithful man (the strongest asses carrying the greatest burdens commonly (O ••ful Physicians! Sometimes they be profane, and cannot heal themselves, and sometimes they be ignorant. And know not what to preach, unless they should follow the steps of Master Latimers Fryer, or at the best, they shoot off a few pot guns against gross sins: or if they do show men their misery, they lick them whole again, with some comfortable