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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.
There are two things in sin which make a man sorrowful; first sin it self that doth defile a man, and separate him from God: Secondly the punishment of sin. Now the sinner looks either so far at sin as it causeth punishment, or as it separates from God.
There are two things in sinne which make a man sorrowfull; first sinne it selfe that doth defile a man, and separate him from God: Secondly the punishment of sinne. Now the sinner lookes either so far at sinne as it causeth punishment, or as it separats from God.
Haply a sinner will come to this, he will be content to carry his heart, and that furiously against sin, because it brings Judgements and plagues; But thus far a hypocrite may go, a Judas, a Cain, a Saul: Cain would say his sins were greater then could be forgiven: because he had killed his brother; but he could never see his sin so vile; because it did separate him from God.
Haply a sinner will come to this, he will be content to carry his heart, and that furiously against sinne, because it brings Judgements and plagues; But thus farre a hypocrite may goe, a Judas, a Caine, a Saul: Caine would say his sinnes were greater then could be forgiven: because he had killed his brother; but he could never see his sinne so vile; because it did separate him from God.
Thus you see how God enters the blow, and followeth it home upon the soul, but yet for all this, God may leave a man as he did Judas and Saul, and there is an end of them.
Thus you see how God enters the blow, and followeth it home upon the soule, but yet for all this, God may leave a man as he did Iudas and Saul, and there is an end of them.