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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.
if a man should thus look, and view his sins, and carry away the glass with him continually, he would see his life so ugly, and his heart so base, that he could not be able to bear it; If the pills be never so bitter, yet if a man swallow them suddenly, there is no great distaste, but if a man chaw a pill, it will make a man deadly sick, because it is against the nature of it, so our sins are like these pills, they ⟨p. 91⟩go down somewhat pleasantly; because we swallow down our oaths & profaneness, & our malice, and contempt of God and his ordinances; and we make it nothing to mock at the religion of God, and the professors of it: you swallow down pills now, but God will make you chaw those pills one day, and then they will be bitter; Though the swearer swallows down his oaths now, yet at last the Lord will make him remember, that he will not hold him guiltless, but arraign him at the day of judgement: and make him cry guilty at the bar, and again will make you chaw over your malice: you hated the Lords word, and the works of his Spirit: and this will condemn you.
if a man should thus looke, and view his sinnes, and carry away the glasse with him continually, he would see his life so ugly, and his heart so base, that he could not be able to beare it; If the pills be never so bitter, yet if a man swallow them suddenly, there is no great distast, but if a man chaw a pill, it wil make a man deadly sicke, because it is against the nature of it, so our sinnes are like these pills, they ⟨p. 91⟩goe downe somewhat pleasantly; because we swallow downe our oathes & prophannes, & our malice, and contempt of God and his ordinances; and we make it nothing to mocke at the religion of God, and the professors of it: you swallow downe pills now, but God will make you chaw those pills one day, and then they will be bitter; Though the swearer swallowes down his oathes now, yet at last the Lord will make him remember, that he will not hold him guiltlesse, but araigne him at the day of judgement: and make him cry guilty at the barre, and againe will make you chaw over your malice: you hated the Lords word, and the workes of his Spirit: and this will condemne you.