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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.
Just so it is with the […] of the soul, the will and the affections which are as the wheels of this great and curious clock (for the soul goes hell-ward and sin-ward, and the mind knows nothing, and the will and the affections embrace nothing but hell and sin) now to bring these into any holy order, the Lord must stop the soul, and that is done by the discovery of sin and by this humiliation of heart; when the Lord lets a man see his sin and saith to him; If thou wilt have sin thou must have hell and all together; and then the soul saith, if it be so, I will meddle no more with sin, the adulterer will be unclean no more; and the drunkard will be drunk no more.
Just so it is with the 〈…〉 of the soule, the will and the affections which are as the wheeles of this great and cur•ous clocke (for the soule goes hel-ward and sin-ward, and the minde knows nothing, and the will and the affections imbrace nothing but hell and sinne) now to bring these into any holy order, the Lord must stoppe the soule, and that is done by the discovery of sinne and by this humiliation of heart; when the Lord lets a man see his sinne and saith to him; If thou wilt have sinne thou must have hell and all together; and then the soule saith, if it be so, I will meddle no more with sinne, the adulterer will be uncleane no more; and the drunkard will bee drunke no more.
Now when the soul is thus turned, it looketh heaven-ward, and God-ward, and is content Christ should rule over it: All this while the soul is a mere patient, this is a saving work & a work of Gods Spirit where ever it is soundly wrought, and will in the end be faith and grace.
Now when the soule is thus turned, it looketh heaven-ward, and God-ward, and is content Christ should rule over it: All this while the soule is a meere patient, this is a saving worke & a worke of Gods Spirit where ever it is soundly wrought, and will in the end be faith and grace.