Shepard - Houston-Packer Collection BV4914 .S5 1659

The Sincere Convert. Mans . mi. foon May God {top thy breath ? There is no- ferp by his thing but that between thee and hell ; ifthat falll. were gone, then farewel . all. Thou art con- denyàed, and the rnuf ler is before thine eyes, God knows how foon the ladder may be turn- ed, thou hangit but by one rotten twined thread of thy life, over theu.arnes'of hell every hour. Thus much ofmans pr'efont iniferies. Mans fn- NOW followeth hisfawte miferies,, which nremice- 'are to come upon him hereafter. - riLs. They must dieeither by a f ,dd;n, fullen, or "Wicked defparate. death, TM. 89. 4.8.. which though men die it is to a child of God a fveet peen, yecc to the delcratcly wicked it is a fearful curfe proceeding from Gods wrath, whence like a Lion , he tears body and'foul afunder ; death cometh hil= tin; upon him like a fiery Dragonwith the fling of vengeance in the mouthofit; it puts. a period to all their worldly contentments, Which then they muít forfake.,and carry no- thing away 'with them, but a rootten winding Cheer. It is the beginning of all their woe, it is the Captain that firf} ftriks the froke, and then Armies ofencllels woes fellow after, Rev. 6,2. Oh thou hall better bea toad or a clog then a man, for there's an end of their trou- bles, when they are dead and gone ;, they fall not as men from a fleep hill, not knowigt where they {hall fall non' repentence is too late, efpecially if thou 'twill lived under means before, it is either sold repentance, when the body is weak, and the heart is Fick, or an by repentance, only for fear ofHell, and

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