- Miftak§sabout Converfion: '$ · the·forehead, r Sam. 17. 49· hut the heart oftheuncon;. verted firmer, and [mite him to theground, witbSaul in his fo happy fall, ACts 9· 4· Thort haft font me, as Abra~ ham did Eliezer, to take awifeuntomy mafter thy S~rr_;· Gen. 24. 4· But my difcouragei foul u re~dy to fear the woman wil/, not be willing to follow me. 0 Lord God of my Mdfter, I pray thee fend meg6od [peed thiJ· day~ and Jhew kJndnefs tomy Mafter, and fend thine Angel before · me, and profPer my way, ~hat I may take a wife unto thy [on., Gen. 24. r 2. That M the{ervant refted not tilt he ·.· had brought Ifaac and Rebekah together, fo I may be fuccefiful to bring Chrift and the fouls ofmy people toge~ tber, btfore we part. , But I turnme untoyouo Son1eof you do not·'~ know what I mean by converfion, and in vain fball I perfuadeyou to that whh:hy.'iu do not U'1derfiand, and therefore for your fakes, _.. -lliall fhe\\: what !this Converfion is. Others do chertfh fecre,· hopes of mercy, though they continue as they be ,; and ·fOI' them I mull: ibew:~~ neceffity ofCo~tverfion. Others are like to harden tb;mfelves with a vain conceit, that they are converted already, unto them I muff. fl1ew the marks of the unconverted. Others becau1e ~ they feel no harin, fear none, and fo fleepupon the top of the maft; to thetn I fnall fl1ew the m.ifory of the unconvirted. Others fit ftill, becaufethey fee not ~ their way out; to them I fball fhew themeans ofcon– verfion. And nnally for the quickening of all) I iball clofe with tbe motives ofConverjion. Chap. I. Sherving the Negative, what Con:.a, verfion u not, andcorreCfingfome #Jiftak.gs_ about it. · · LET the blind samaritans worfhip they know· not what, 'f}ob.4.22. Let the Heathen Atheni– ans 1uperfcribe their Altar untctthe unknownGod, Afl. r7. 2 3. Let the guileful Papifts , comn1end the B 3 · mothe~
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