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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.
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. 2I will not hear what the Levit saith to the Courtier, or to the commons, but I will see what the Lord saith to me. Oh (say some) the minister speaks home to such a one, he touched him to the quick: What is that to thee? Will another mans salve cure thee? therefore labour that the Lord may come home to thy particular, that the Lord may salve thee, and cut thee, and save thee, for thy everlasting comfort.
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 veine, that your corruptions may bee ⟨p. 77⟩subdued, that they may have their deaths wound given them; take up that resolution of the Prophet David, I will heare what the Lord saith to my soule. 2