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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.
METHINKS, you have heard Reasons enough, and enough, to Conquer all Objections against your Immediate Compliance, with the Exhortation which now calls upon you. But the Arrows are not all spent.
CONSIDER this One thing, and, oh! Consider it, as being shortly to appear before your Judge. To ask of the Glorious GOD that He would please to Turn you; Tis a Thing which you will not pretend, that you are unable to do such a Thing. The Counsel is; Go alone, and from the Depths whereinto your Sins have plunged you, Cry unto the Glorious GOD, O Turn thou me, that I may be Turned. Now, you won't pretend, that you can't. As the Servants of Naaman said unto him; 2 King. ⟨p. 20⟩V.13. My Father, If the Prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he saith unto thee, Wash and be clean So may I say, My Neighbour, If some Great Thing were Imposed on thee, to bring about thy Conversion to GOD, wouldest thou not have done it? Yea, Verily; It would be a thing worth all the Labour, and all the Travail, that can be imagined. Could all the Severities, with which the Deluded Bigots among the Pagans, or Papists, […] Mahometans, Afflict themselves, be of any avail •or this purpose▪ none of them all would be too much to be undergone for such a purpose. How much rather when the Prophet only saith unto thee, Go, and Pray, and Weep unto the Lord. O Turn •hou me, that I may be Turned! — How m••• rather ought this to be hearkened unto! You will none of you make this pretence, I cannot go before the Lord; I cannot say unto Him, O Turn thou me! — If you will not hearken to it, you have no pretence, but that shameful one, that horrid one; Jer. XLIV.16. As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the Name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. But, Oh! Forlorn Soul; shall it come to this? What? wilt thou then plainly say, I will not so much as ask it of GOD, that He would please to Turn me unto Himself? How canst thou answer for this profane Contempt of Heaven, before the Tribunal of GOD?