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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.
1The third use is, for exhortation, if this be our duty, it ought to stir up the heart of all the people of God, to set an edge on their affections, that they should desire this manner of teaching, and when God maketh his truth thus known to us, we should submit to the power thereof, You have most need of this, and there is most profit in this; and therefore your hearts ought to be more enlarged to the coveting and submitting thereto.
1The third use is, for exhortation, if this be our duty, it ought to stirre up the heart of all the people of God, to set an edge on their affections, that they should desire this manner of teaching, and when God maketh his truth thus knowne to us, we should submit to the power thereof, You have most need of this, and there is most profit in this; and therefore your hearts ought to be more inlarged to the coveting and submiting thereto.
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And therefore you that are hearers, suffer me to provoke you to it,1 when the time comes that you are to approach to the house of God; pray unto the Lord that he would direct you, and that the minister may come home to your hearts, bring your hearts to the word, as the people did their sacrifices in the old law; they brought them and laid them on the Altar, that the Priest might kill them; and divide them. So bring your hearts under the power of Jesus Christ, that they may be cut and divided, that you may be let blood in the right vein, that your corruptions may be ⟨p. 77⟩subdued, that they may have their deaths wound given them; take up that resolution of the Prophet David, I will hear what the Lord saith to my soul.