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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 second place of Scripture, is out of John, No man cometh to me except the father draweth him, 1by coming you must conceive believing, (as in that famous place of John, 2He that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst;) Now this text implies two things, and they are professedly granted by the intendment of the Apostle, for the people murmured why the Pharisees and the great ones believed not and followed not Christ, to whom Christ answers; Unless my father from heaven draw them they cannot come: so that these two things are clear, first, a man must be drawn, secondly, if he be drawn he shall surely come▪
The second place of Scripture, is out of Iohn, No man commeth to me except the father draweth him, 1by comming you must conceive beleeving, (as in that famous place of Iohn, 2He that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst;) Now this text implyes two things, and they are profesly granted by the intendment of the Apostle, for the people murmured why the Pharisies and the great ones beleeved not and followed not Christ, to whom Christ answeres; Vnlesse my father from heaven draw them they cannot come: so that these two things are cleare, first, a man must be drawne, secondly, if he be drawne he shal surely come▪