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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.
You must not think God is so gentle, No, he will set all your sins in order before you, if not here for your humiliation, yet hereafter for your everlasting confusion; the drunkard shall then see all his pot companions, and the adulterer his mates, and the unjust person all his tricks, nay, God will not bate thee one thought of thy heart;1 be where you will, God will find you out with his judgements, and say, Lo, here is thy pride, & here is thy murder, & here are all thy abominations, this is the wretch that could carry fire in the one hand and water in the other; these are thy sins, and this shall be thy punishment.
You must not thinke God is so gentle, No, he will set all your sinnes in order before you, if not here for your humiliation, yet hereafter for your everlasting confusion; the drunkard shall then see all his pot companions, and the adulterer his mates, and the unjust person all his trickes, nay, God wil not bate thee one thought of thy heart;1 be where you will, God will finde you out with his judgements, and say, Lo, here is thy pride, & here is thy murther, & here are all thy abominations, this is the wretch that could carry fire in the one hand and water in the other; these are thy sinnes, and this shall be thy punishment.
Secondly, if God be so mighty (say they) that ⟨p. 51⟩