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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 Conference Between a MINISTER, and the two Pirates, (Archer, and White,) the Week before their Execution.
M. Stands for, Minister. A. for Archer. W. for White. P. P. when Both made the same Answer.
M. TIS with unspeakable Sorrow and Pity that I behold your miserable Circumstances. — But if a Poor Sinful Man, have any Dispositions of Mercy for you, they are but what a Gracious GOD has produced in him; and they are but a very mean and faint Shadow of the Mercy in the Glorious GOD; For as the Heaven is High above the Earth, Such a Superiority there is in the Mercy ⟨p. 32⟩of the Glorious GOD. And, Oh! Do you make such an use of the Compassion for you, which you see working in any Servants of GOD, as to infer from it; What Compassion you shall find in the Infinite GOD, if you Return to Him; A GOD, who is now waiting that He may be Gracious ▪
M. TIS with unspeakable Sorrow and Pitty that I behold your miserable Circumstances. — But if a Poor Sinful Man, have any Dispositions of Mercy for you, they are but what a Gracious GOD has produced in him; and they are but a very mean and faint Shadow of the Mercy in the Glorious GOD; For as the Heaven is High above the Earth, Such a Superiority there is in the Mercy ⟨p. 32⟩