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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.
The doctrine is this,1 that serious meditation of our sins by the word of God is a special means to break our hearts for our sins. After they had heard, (this notes a continual action,) the truth of God still stuck in their stomachs, the arrows of God would not out, the Apostle shot some secret shot into their souls, which came home to their hearts and consciences, when they heard this: that is, the musing and meditating and pondering of this, when they could hold no longer, they could bear no more, but came to the Apostles and said, what shall we do? Sometimes God brings a man into the Church to carp at the minister, and to see what he may have against him; now if the Lord sting the conscience of that man, he will hear you all the week after, and say, me thinks I see the man still, he aimed at me, he intended me, and me thinks, I hear the word still sounding in mine ears; he is always meditating on the word in this kind.
The doctrine is this,1 that serious meditation of our sinnes by the word of God is a speciall meanes to breake our hearts for our sinnes. After they had heard, (this notes a continuall action,) the truth of God still stuck in their stomackes, the arrowes of God would not out, the Apostle shot some secret shot into their soules, which came home to their hearts and consciences, when they heard this: that is, the musing and meditating and pondering of this, when they could hold no longer, they could beare no more, but came to the Apostles and said, what shall we doe? Sometimes God brings a man into the Church to carpe at the minister, and to see what he may have against him; now if the Lord sting the conscience of that man, he will heare you all the weeke after, and say, me thinkes I see the man still, he aymed at me, he intended me, and me thinkes, I heare the word still sounding in mine eares; he is alwaies meditating on the word in this kind.
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