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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.
This drawing is thus much, when God opens the eye of a man and makes known his sin, & sets down the heart in the acknowledgement of sin, so that he feels the vileness and the burden of it, and is content to part with the fame.
This drawing is thus much, when God opens the eye of a man and makes knowne his sinne, & sets downe the heart in the acknowledgement of sinne, so that he feeles the vilenesse and the burthen of it, and is content to part with the fame.
When the Lord shall lay all a mans abominations upon him, all his adulteries, and all his thefts, and now he sees what it is to depart from a blessed and a pure God; O then, he will be drunk, and unclean, and malicious no more, because the heart is weary of it, and is content to part with it.
When the Lord shal lay all a mans abominations upon him, all his adulteries, and all his thefts, and now he sees what it is to depart from a blessed and a pure God; O then, he will be drunke, and uncleane, and malitious no more, because the heart is weary of it, and is content to part with it.
From hence I reason thus, true drawing is ever accompanied with true believing; but this sense of sin in regard of the punishment of it, is not always accompanied with true believing, but a man must see his sin further in the vileness of it, and in the abomination of it; and then he shall undoubtedly believe.
From hence I reason thus, true drawing is ever accompanied with true beleeving; but this sense of sinne in regard of the punishment of it, is not alwaies accompanied with true beleeving, but a man must see his sinne further in the vilenes of it, and in the abomination of it; and then he shall undoubtedly beleeve.