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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.
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Lastly, I suspect those men that never found out this thief, this sin, that was bred and born with them, nor saw it in their own hearts; but •here it lies still in some dark corner of their souls to cut their throats: these kind of men sometimes suspect there is no God. O this is a grievous sin; for if no God, no heaven, no hell, no Marty•s, no Prophets, no Scriptures, Christ […] ⟨p. 13⟩shame or sorrow, and to say the Lords Prayer without understanding; to hear the word that thou mayest only know more, and not that thou mayest be affected more. Oh, these carcasses of holy duties, are most odious sacrifices before God.
Lastly, I suspect those men that never found out this thief, this sin, that was bred and born with them, nor saw it in their own hearts; but •here it lyes still in some dark corner of their souls to cut their throats: these kind of men sometimes suspect there is no God. O this is a grievous sin; for if no God, no heaven, no hell, no Marty•s, no Prophets, no Scriptures, Christ 〈…〉 ⟨p. 13⟩shame or sorrow, and to say the Lords Prayer without understanding; to hear the word that thou mayest only know more, and not that thou mayest be affected more. Oh, these carcasses of holy duties, are most odious sacrifices before God.
2. He is a living God, whereby he liveth use 2 of himself, and gives life to all other things. Away then with thy dead heart to this principal of life to quicken thee, that his mighty power may pluck thee out of thy sepulchre, u•lose thy grave-locks, that so thou mayest live. use 3