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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.
Thus you see, all men must be thus disposed before they can be saved; and if thus fitted and disposed, they shall be certainly saved; It is not enough for a man to be in a miserable estate and damnable condition, but he must also see it, and his heart must be truly affected with it, and find and feel the but then of it; not so much for the punishment, but for the sin whereby his heart is estranged from God, and also God from his soul.
Thus you see, all men must be thus disposed before they can be saved; and if thus fitted and disposed, they shall be certainely saved; It is not enough for a man to be in a miserable estate and damnable condition, but he must also see it, and his heart must be truly affected with it, and finde and feele the but then of it; not so much for the punishment, but for the sinne whereby his heart is estranged from God, and also God from his soule.
Now that the sensibleness of his lost condition is there spoken of, and this man that hath it shall be saved, may appear, because the sensibleness of a mans condition in regard of the punishment of sin is such, as a man may have, and yet never have grace and salvation: Cain had the feeling of Gods wrath and felt the punishment of it, and so did Judas also, and yet they were never sought up nor saved.
Now that the sensiblenesse of his lost condition is there spoken of, and this man that hath it shall be saved, may appeare, because the sensiblenesse of a mans condition in regard of the punishment of sinne is such, as a man may have, and yet never have grace and salvation: Cain had the feeling of Gods wrath and felt the punishment of it, and so did Iudas also, and yet they were never sought up nor saved.