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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
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.
CHAP. II.
That this God made all mankind at first, in a most glorious and happy estate, like unto himself.
THat this God made all mankind at f•rst, in a most glorious and happy estate, like unto himself.
For the opening of which assertion, I have chosen this Text,1 Eccles. 7.29. God made man righteous, which clearly demonstrates, That God made all mankind at first in Adam, in a most glorious, happy, and righteous estate. Man when he came first out of Gods mint, shined most glorious. There is a marvellous glory in all creatures (the servants and houshold• […] of man) therefore there was a greater glory in man himself, the end of them▪ God calleth a Parliament, and gather• a Counsel when […] was to be made, and said: Come let us make man in our own Image: as […] all the wisdom of ⟨p. 19⟩