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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.
Secondly, consider thine own strength, and ⟨p. 56⟩compare it with all the strength of the creatures, and so if all the creatures be not able to bear the wrath of the Almighty, (as Job saith, Is my strength the strength of stones, 1or is my flesh as brass that must bear thy wrath? As if he had said, It must be a stone, or brass, that must bear thy wrath. Though thou wert as strong as brass or stones, thou couldst not bear it, when the mountains tremble at the wrath of the Lord) shall a poor worm or bubble, and a shadow endure it?
Secondly, consider thine owne strength, and ⟨p. 56⟩compare it with all the strength of the creatures, and so if all the creatures be not able to beare the wrath of the Almighty, (as Iob saith, Is my strength the strength of stones, 1or is my flesh as brasse that must beare thy wrath? As if he had said, It must be a stone, or brasse, that must beare thy wrath. Though thou wert as strong as brasse or stones, thou couldst not beare it, when the mountaines tremble at the wrath of the Lord) shall a poore worme or bubble, and a shadow endure it?
Conceive thus much, if all the diseases in the world did seize on one man, and if all the torments that all the tyrants in the world could devise, were cast upon him; and if all the creatures in heaven and earth did conspire the destruction of this man; and if all the devils in hell did labour to inflict punishments upon him; you would think this man to be in a miserable condition. And yet all this is but a beam of Gods indignation. If the beams of Gods wrath be not hot, what is the full sun of his wrath, when it shall seize upon the soul of a sinful creature in full measure?