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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 hence it is, that when a man hath lived wickedly all his days, and comes to lye on his death bed, then all his sins come to his remembrance, and then conscience flies in his face, and says, here is a cup for a drunkard and for an adulterer: now he seeth nothing but sin; and hell, and damnation, due to him for his sin, and then he cries out he is damned. You might have ⟨p. 95⟩seen something before then, if you had seen them to be humbled for them, you should never have seen them to be damned for them. If there be but any occasion of baseness offered to the view of the drunkard, which way doth he not use to compass his carnal delights? and shall the drunkard and profane wretch be so eager in lingering after sin, that he may commit it, and be damned for it, and shall not a man so labour to see his iniquities, that he may be humbled for them before God, and receive mercy from God in the pardon of the same? Shall the reprobate hale judgements on their souls, and bend all their meditations that way, and shall not they that desire to see God in glory, do the same?
And hence it is, that when a man hath lived wickedly all his dayes, and comes to lye on his death bed, then all his sinnes come to his remembrance, and then conscience flies in his face, and sayes, here is a cup for a drunkard and for an adulterer: now he seeth nothing but sinne; and hell, and damnation, due to him for his sinne, and then he cries out he is damned. You might have ⟨p. 95⟩seene something before then, if you had seene them to be humbled for them, you should never have seene them to be damned for them. If there be but any occasion of basenesse offered to the view of the drunkard, which way doth he not use to compasse his carnall delights? and shall the drunkard and prophane wretch be so eager in lingering after sinne, that he may commit it, and be damned for it, and shall not a man so labour to see his iniquities, that he may be humbled for them before God, and receive mercy from God in the pardon of the same? Shall the reprobate hale judgements on their soules, and bend all their meditations that way, and shall not they that desire to see God in glory, doe the same?