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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.
M. But I must make it yet a little Plainer. — It is not enough, that you be Forgiven, but you must be Righteous too. You can't have a Claim to Blessedness, if you be not Owners of a Righteousness wherein the Law of GOD shall be fully answered; a Complete, Exact, Perfect Righteousness. But, how will you come at such a Righteousness? If you could now spend the Last Week of your Lives, in Spotless Performances ▪ what would that Signify for the p•st Years of Lives a•l spent in Wickedness? A Farthing paid, where Talents were owed? But even This is what you won't, you can't come unto. Your Best Work• will have their Blemishes. The very Tears of your most Savoury Devotions will want washing. Your H•ly Things will not ••e without their Iniquities. What will you do?
M. But I must make it yet a little Plainer. — It is not enough, that you be Forgiven, but you must be Righ•eous too. You can't have a Claim to Blessedness, if you be not Owners of a Righteous•ess wherein the Law of GOD shall be fu•ly answered; a Compleat, Exact, Perfect Righteousness. But, how will you come at such a Righteousness? If you could now spend the Last Week of your Lives, in Spotl•ss Perf•rmances ▪ what would that Signify for the p•st Years of Lives a•l spent in Wickedness? A F•r•hing paid, where Talents were ow'd? But even This is what you won't, you can't come unto. Your Best Work• will have their Blemishes. The very Tears of your most Savoury Devotions will want washing. Your H•ly Things will not ••e without their Iniquities. What will you do?