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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.
First, me thinks the sin it self is like the sin of Ananias and Sapphira: 1he sold all that he had, and as the Lord moved him, and commanded him, he gave way to it that it should be given to the poor: But when it was sold, he kept back one part of it: and when Peter said, Did you sell it for so much? Is this all the price? Yes, saith he.2 Now mark what Peter saith, Why hath Satan filled thy heart, that thou hast not lied to man, but to God. Satan many times steps into the heart; but when he is said to fill the heart, he shuts out the work of judgement and reason, and the Word, and Spirit, and all good Resolutions in those particular occasions, which concern a man.
First, me thinkes the sinne it selfe is like the sinne of Ananias and Saphyra: 1hee sold all that he had, and as the Lord moved him, and commanded him, he gave way to it that it should be given to the poore: But when it was sold, he kept backe one part of it: and when Peter said, Did you sell it for so much? Is this all the price? Yes, saith he.2 Now mark what Peter saith, Why hath Satan filled thy heart, that thou hast not lyed to man, but to God. Satan many times steps into the heart; but when he is said to fill the heart, he shuts out the worke of judgement and reason, and the Word, and Spirit, and all good Resolutions in those particular occasions, which concerne a man.
- 1Acts 5.3. opened.
- 2To hide our sins, a fearful sin.To hide our sins, a fearefull sinne.