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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.
1The second conclusion is this, there cannot be two Gods in one heart, two Kings in one throne nor two Suns in one firmament; you cannot have Christ, and yet be an underling to sin; will ⟨p. 175⟩Christ be a Physician to heal you that you may have your sins still? No, our Saviour is plain to the contrary,2 you cannot serve God and Mammon; If the adulterer will have his queans, then he must forsake the Lord, and if he will not part with his lust, nor have his heart circumcised, nor broken, then he must go down whole to hell; as the Prophet said, Why halt you between two opinions, if God be God serve him. God will bochiefe in the soul.
1The second conclusion is this, there cannot be two Gods in one heart, two Kings in one throne nor two Suns in one firmament; you cannot have Christ, and yet be an underling to sinne; will ⟨p. 175⟩Christ be a Physitian to heale you that you may have your sinnes still? No, our Saviour is plaine to the contrary,2 you cannot serve God and Mammon; If the adulterer will have his queanes, then he must forsake the Lord, and if he will not part with his lust, nor have his heart circumcised, nor broken, then he must goe downe whole to hell; as the Prophet said, Why halt you between two opinions, if God be God serve him. God will bochiefe in the soule.
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- 2Mat. 6.22.