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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.
I answer, when the soul is sorrowful for sin, as it is sin, and as it is a breach of the Law of God, it may appear by these two particulars. First, the soul is most of all weary of sin, because of the vile nature of it. Secondly, it is restless in importuning the Lord for mercy and pardon for it.
I answer, when the soule is sorrowfull for sin, as it is sinne, and as it is a breach of the Law of God, it may appeare by these two particulars. First, the soule is most of all weary of sin, because of the vile nature of it. Secondly, it is restlesse in importuning the Lord for mercy and pardon for it.
First, the heart is most of all weary of the burden of sin, as it is sin, and thinks it the greatest burden in the world: as a man that hath a great burden on his back wrencheth this way and that way, and if he cannot remove it, yet he will ease it; so the heart useth all means, and taketh all courses, that if it were possible, it may cast off and ease it self of the vileness of sin & plague of sin. This wearisomeness of the soul, which followeth the weight of sin, makes it self known in these three particulars.
First, the heart is most of all weary of the burthen of sinne, as it is sinne, and thinkes it the greatest burthen in the world: as a man that hath a great burthen on his backe wrincheth this way and that way, and if he cannot remove it, yet he will ease it; so the heart useth all meanes, and taketh all courses, that if it were possible, it may cast off and ease it selfe of the vilenesse of sinne & plague of sinne. This wearisomnesse of the soule, which followeth the weight of sinne, makes it self knowne in these three particulars.