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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.
When Amaleck met Israel and took them at advantage, because they were weak and weary, Remember (saith the text) what he did to thee in the way, how he feared not God, and the Lord saith, I remember what Amaleck did to the people of Israel: 1go therefore and blot out his name from under heaven, and kill all both young and old. This is a true type of such as are enemies to the poor ⟨p. 190⟩Saints of God, that are thus desolate and wounded in their consciences; their being in the wilderness was a type of the Saints conversion; and their coming to Canaan, was a type of the Saints arriving at the heavenly City Jerusalem.
When Amaleck met Israel and tooke them at advantage, because they were weake and weary, Remember (saith the text) what he did to thee in the way, how he feared not God, and the Lord saith, I remember what Amaleck did to the people of Israel: 1goe therefore and blot out his name from under heaven, and kill all both young and old. This is a true type of such as are enemies to the poore ⟨p. 190⟩Saints of God, that are thus desolate and wounded in their consciences; their being in the wildernes was a type of the Saints conversion; and their comming to Canaan, was a type of the Saints ariving at the heavenly City Jerusalem.
Now canst thou jeer at the Saints, that are thus wounded? and canst thou wound them further? and pierce him to the heart, and discourage him? The Lord will remember thee in the day of thy death, and as thou hast showed no mercy, so shalt thou receive no mercy in that day. I have known many such opposers of God and his Grace, that have been forced to lay violent hands upon themselves, and when the Lord hath gotten some of them upon their sick bed they lye roaring there; and the Lord lays his full wrath upon them; If there be any such in this congregation, I pray God let them see some sudden vein of his vengeance, that if it be possible they may find and feel the weight of this trouble of conscience; that they themselves also may find mercy from the Lord.