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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.
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Judas had it in a great measure, and God plucked his sweet morsels from his mouth, and made him confess his sins, and take shame to himself; & so God doth with many, and makes them say, I have been a drunkard and an adulterer, and a desperate opposer of God and his ordinances: But though Judas loathed the horror & punishment of sin, yet he had a murderous disposition still, he that had killed Christ went and murdered himself too.
Iudas had it in a great measure, and God pluckt his sweet morsels from his mouth, and made him confesse his sinnes, and take shame to himselfe; & so God doth with many, and makes them say, I have beene a drunkard and an adulterer, and a desperate opposer of God and his ordinances: But though Iudas loathed the horrour & punishment of sinne, yet he had a murtherous disposition still, he that had killed Christ went and murthered himselfe too.
Now from these former conclusions I reason thus, If a mans sins be his God, and if there cannot be two Gods in one heart, and if those corruptions of the heart must of necessity be cast out, and if the heart will not part with sin till it be wearied with it, and that is done by godly sorro••; then it is a matter of necessity, that the heart must be pierced; and there must be a separation between sin and the soul, before Christ will marry the soul and rule in it; or else there shall be two Gods in one heart, which cannot be.
Now from these former conclusions I reason thus, If a mans sinnes be his God, and if there cannot be two Gods in one heart, and if those corruptions of the heart must of necessity be cast out, and if the heart will not part with sinne till it be wearied with it, and that is done by godly sorro••; then it is a matter of necessity, that the heart must be pierced; and there must be a separation betweene sinne and the soule, before Christ will marry the soule and rule in it; or else there shall be two Gods in one heart, which cannot be.