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The Soul's Preparation for Christ
The souls preparation for Christ. Or, A treatise of contrition Wherein is discovered how God breaks the heart and wounds the soul, in the conversion of a sinner to Himself.The soules preparation for Christ. Or, A treatise of contrition Wherein is discovered how God breaks the heart and wounds the soule, in the conversion of a sinner to Himselfe.
London: printed by M. Flesher for Robert Dawlman, 1632London: printed by M. Flesher for Robert Davvlman, 1632
THE SOULS PREPARATION FOR CHRIST.THE SOVLES PREPARATION FOR CHRIST.
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.
If we were drunkards, or whoremongers, then it were somewhat? Thou sayest true indeed, thou hast many fellows in thy sins, and thou shalt have share with many fellows in the punishment to come; there is room enough in hell for thee and all thy fellows, hell hath opened her mouth wide; nay the more companions thou hast had in thy sins, the more shall be thy plagues.
If we were drunkards, or whoremongers, then it were somewhat? Thou sayest true indeed, thou hast many fellowes in thy sinnes, and thou shalt have share with many fellowes in the punishment to come; there is roome enough in hell for thee and all thy fellowes, hell hath opened her mouth wide; nay the more companions thou hast had in thy sinnes, the more shall be thy plagues.
Quest. O (saith one) all the world lies in sin, and we do no more then the world doth.
Quest. O (saith one) all the world lies in sinne, and we doe no more then the world doth.
Answ. But if the world lies in sin, Christ never prayed for the world, and he will never save the world? What a senseless thing is this to be such a […] as God hates? Is this all thy pleasure that thou art a hater of God? What odds is it for a man to be stabbed ⟨p. 41⟩with a penknife or with a spear; or for a man to be murdered in the streets or in his bed? so, though thy sins be not hideous blasphemies and the like, yet if they be petty oaths, they are enough to sink thy soul; It is not your great swearer, but no swearer shall come into the Kingdom of heaven. the text saith not, no great liars shall enter into heaven, but no liars shall enter into heaven; What difference is there between a man that goes to hell for open rebellion; and a man that goes to hell for civill profession; and what difference is there between an open adulterer and a secret adulterer?