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The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and…
The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be prayed & striven for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation]The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be pray'd & striv'n for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation]
Boston: printed for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
A. And I have this further to say. I was one of Teaches Crew; But came in upon the Act of Graces And yet falling again into the Hands of the Pirates, I was easily drawn into the old Trade again; and spen• one half Year more in Piracy, till GOD would •ear no longer with me.
A. And I have this further to say. I was one of Teaches Crue; But came in up•n the Act of Graces And yet falling again into the Hands of the Pirates, I was easily drawn into the old Trade again; and spen• one half Year more in Piracy, till GOD would •ear no longer with me.
M. All the Abominable Things that you have done, are but the Streams, whereof you have the Spring, in an Heart that is Desperately Wicked, and a Mother of Abominations. What sense have you of This! Do you with a vast, self-ab•or•enc•, behold, That you were Born Sinners; and that under the Condemnation which the Sin of your Fir•• Parents brought on Mankind▪ you have Contracted ⟨p. 40⟩a Venomous Disposition to Sin against the Glorious GOD, and an Inclination to all manner o• Sin; So that if GOD had not withheld you fr•m •inning against Him, there is no manner of Sin but what you would have run into! — An Heart always Departing from the Living GOD.
M. All the Abominable Things that you have done, are but the Streams, whereof you have the Spring, in an Heart that is Desperately Wicked, and a Mother of Abominations. What sense have you of This! Do you with a vast, self-aborenc, behold, That you were Born Sinners; and that under the Condemnation which the Sin of your Fir Parents brought on Mankind you have Contracted