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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.
But Secondly, if God intends to do good to a man, he will not let him go thus, and fall to a civill course: When a man begins to colour over his old sins, and God hath broken his teeth, that he cannot worry as formerly: but yet there is no power in him: If the Lord love that soul, he will much the more clearly reveal his sins unto him: God will pluck away all his chambering and wantonness, all his pride and peevishness, and pull off his visor, and show him all his sins, and pursue him; therefore as before God entered the blow, so now he follows it home. And hence it is that Job saith, The arrows of the Almighty stick fast in me, and the venom thereof drinks up my spirits, and the terrors of the Almighty encamp themselves against me every way. And as David saith, Thou keepest my eyes waking, and my sins are ever before me. If God ⟨p. 144⟩[…] ⟨p. 145⟩[…] ⟨p. 140⟩[…] ⟨p. 141⟩[…] ⟨p. 142⟩[…] ⟨p. 143⟩[…] ⟨p. 144⟩love a sinner, and mean to do good to him, he will not let him look off his sin, the Lord will ferret him from his den, and from his base courses and practises: He will be with you in all your stealing and pilfering, and in all your cursed devises, if you belong to him he will not give you over.
But Secondly, if God intends to doe good to a man, he will not let him goe thus, and fall to a civill course: When a man begins to colour over his old sinnes, and God hath broken his teeth, that he cannot worry as formerly: but yet there is no power in him: If the Lord love that soule, he will much the more clearely reveale his sinnes unto him: God will plucke away all his chambering and wantonnesse, all his pride and peevishnesse, and pull off his vizzard, and shew him all his sinnes, and pursue him; therefore as before God entred the blow, so now he followes it home. And hence it is that Iob saith, The arrowes of the Almighty sticke fast in me, and the venome thereof drinkes up my spirits, and the terrours of the Almighty encampe themselves against me every way. And as David saith, Thou keepest my eyes waking, and my sinnes are ever before me. If God