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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.
It is the practice of the lamenting Church in Hosea;1 Ashur shall not save us, we will not ride on horses, neither will we say to the works of our hands: Ye are our Gods, for with thee the fatherless find mercy. That is, we will meddle no more with any thing that is sinful, whereby we have dishonoure• God heretofore, for they had trusted in their horses, & made Idols, and relied upon them, but now they cast them clean off.
It is the practice of the lamenting Church in Hosea;1 Ashur shall not save us, we will not ride on horses, neither will we say to the workes of our hands: Ye are our Gods, for with thee the fatherles finde mercy. That is, we wil meddle no more with any thing that is sinfull, wh•reby we have dishonoure• God heretofore, for they had trusted in their horses, & made Idols, and relyed upon them, but now they cast them cleane off.
The reason is, because when the soul seeth sin as it is sin, and that it is burden to the soul, and the heart is now weary of it, it will lay no more weight upon it, because now the heart is weary enough already. The blasphemer fears an oath, & the adulterer shakes to see his quean, and he trembles to see the place where his abominations have been committed, and now his heart loathes all these. If a man hath been once at deaths door by drinking deadly poison, he will never taste of it more; Nay, he will not endure the sight of that cup, he will rather fare hardly, and rather starve then eat and drink that which shall kill him, so (saith the soul) it is sin that hath made a separation between me and