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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.
where the Devils ▪ to who• […] have bee• […] & Va••a•s ▪ will insult you, will torture you, will •e ver• uneasy Companions to you. And what will be yet more Intolerable, the Infinite GOD Himself will with Immediate […] of His Wrath like flashes of Lightening sh•t into your guilty […] cause you to feel an […] ▪ which […] here can com• up un••. […] any Torment, when the […] ⟨p. 36⟩or scorched while it is lodging in the Body it is the Glorious GOD as an Universal cause always executing the Laws of Nature, which He has established, who does produce that sense in the Sufferer. But this Almighty GOD, will more Immediately dispense to a Wicked S•ul gone down to the Pit, the sense of all such Torment, as it could have ever felt by the Mediation of the most exquisite Afflicters here. Our GOD will Himself be as a Distressing Fire unto them. Verily, It will be found a Fearful thing to fall into in the Hands of the Living GOD! — Yea, If you are not well Renewed in the Spirit of your Mind, You will Die unqualified for the Kingdom of GOD. A Soul cannot go into Heaven, till Heaven be first come into the Soul. If it were possible, (as it is not,) for a Soul, with the Enmity of a Carnal Mind against GOD, unsubdued in it, with its Vicious and Uncured Appetites, to enter into Heaven, it would not bear to be The•e: Heaven itself would be so Disagreeable as to be Uncomfortable unto such a Soul. A most Horrible Thing This! But most certainly True. So that there can be nothing so Necessary for you as This; That an Holy Change be made upon you! A New-Birth, without which, it had been Good for you that you had never been •orn!