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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.
But if the soul be otherwise trained up among ⟨p. 180⟩godly parents, and live under a soul-saving ministry, that saith, you cannot go to heaven by a civill course, and you cannot have any dispensation for your profanation of the Sabbath; I say, if a man live under such a ministry & keep good company, the Lord may reform this man, and cut him off from his corruptions kindly, and break his heart secretly in the apprehension of his sins, and yet the world never see it.
But if the soule be otherwise trained up among ⟨p. 180⟩godly parents, and live under a soule-saving ministery, that saith, you cannot goe to heaven by a civill course, and you cannot have any dispensation for your prophanation of the Sabbath; I say, if a man live under such a ministery & keepe good company, the Lord may reforme this man, and cut him off from his corruptions kindly, and breake his heart secretly in the apprehension of his sinnes, and yet the world never see it.
In both these we have an example, in Lydia and the Jailer, Lydia was a sinful woman, and God opened her eyes and melted her heart kindly,1 & brought her to a taste of his goodness here, and glory hereafter. But the Jailer was an outrageous, rebellious wretch, for when the Apostles were committed to prison he laid them up in stocks and whipped them sore; O says he, now I have gotten these precise •ellowes into my hands, I will have my penny-worths of them.
In both these we have an example, in Lydia and the Iaylor, Lydia was a sinfull woman, and God opened her eyes and melted her heart kindly,1