The loyall convert
About this Item
- Title
- The loyall convert
- Author
- Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
- Publication
- Oxford :: Printed by Henry Hall,
- 1644.
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- Subject terms
- Divine right of kings.
- Link to this Item
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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56832.0001.001
- Cite this Item
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"The loyall convert." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56832.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2025.
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To the Honest-hearted READER.
READER,
IHere protest before the Searcher of all hearts, that I have no End, either of Faction, or Relation in this ensuing Treatise. I am no Papist, no Secta∣rie, but a true Lover of Reformation & Peace: My Pen declines all bitternesse of Spirit; all deceitfulnesse of heart; and I may safely, in this particu∣lar, with saint PAVL, say, I speake the truth in Christ and lye not, my Conscience bea∣ring me witnesse in the holy Ghost, that I neither walke nor write in craftinesse, nor handle the
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holy Scriptures deceitfully: Therefore if thy Cause be Iesus Christ, in the name of Iesus Christ, I adjure thee to lay aside all wilfull ignorance, all prejudice, all private respects and Interests, and all uncharitable censures: Deale faithfully with thy Soul, and suffer wholesome admonitions: Search the seve∣rall Scriptures herein contained, and where they open a Gate, climbe not thou over a Stile, Consult with Reason herein exer∣ciz'd, and where it finds a mouth, find thou an eare: And let Truth prosper, though thou perish; and let God be glorified, al∣though in thy Confusion.