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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 second ground, secondly if it be so that mercy will not prevail with you, if you have no good nature in you, then secondly, consider that this is a just God, that hath been provoked by your sins, if mercy cannot prevail with you, ⟨p. 104⟩you shall have Justice enough, and that without mercy; you must not think to slight Gods mercy, and carry it away in that fashion. But God is a just God, as he is a gracious God; he will be revenged of you; If there be any stubborn heart shall say, God is merciful, and what then? therefore we may live as we list, and be as careless as we please: Take heed, that just law that hath been condemned, and those righteous statutes that hath been broken, and God hath been provoked by you, will be revenged of you; did ever any provoke the Lord and prosper, and shall you begin? first think you where is Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar, and Pharaoh, and Herod, and those proud persons that set their mouths against God and their hearts against heaven, they that provoked the Lord, what is now become of them? they are now in the lowermost pit of hell.
The second ground, secondly if it be so that mercy will not prevaile with you, if you have no good nature in you, then secondly, consider that this is a just God, that hath beene provoked by your sinnes, if mercy cannot prevaile with you, ⟨p. 104⟩you shall have Iustice enough, and that without mercy; you must not thinke to slight Gods mercy, and carry it away in that fashiō. But God is a just God, as he is a gratious God; he will be revenged of you; If there be any stubborne heart shall say, God is mercifull, and what then? therefore we may live as we list, and be as carelesse as we please: Take heed, that just law that hath been condemned, and those righteous statutes that hath beene broken, and God hath beene provoked by you, will be revenged of you; did ever any provoke the Lord and prosper, and shall you beginne? first thinke you where is Ny•rod and Nebuchadnezer, and Pharoah, and Herod, and those proud persons that set their mouths against God and their hearts against heaven, they that provoked the Lord, what is now become of them? they are now in the lowermost pit of hell.