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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 difference of those […] is thus to be conceived in this simili•ud••, as it is with the wheels of a clock,1 th•• […] qui•e wrong; what must a man do to set this clock •ight again? he must […] stop it […] no longer wrong, and then turn it and set the wheels right; now all this while the clock is a patient, and the workman doth all.
The difference of those 〈…〉 is thus to be conceived in this simili•ud••, as it is with the wheeles of a clocke,1 th•• 〈…〉 qui•e wrong; what must a man doe to set this clocke •ight againe? he must 〈…〉 stoppe it 〈…〉 no longer wrong, and then turne it and set the wheeles right; now all this while the clocke is a patient, and the work•man doth all.
- 1Simile.
Secondly, wherein is thu• set right, then the work man puts the plummets and weights on it, and now the wheels can run of themselves by virtue of that poise and weight they have gotten;