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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.
Lastly, he must be a faithful minister, one that will not fit mens humours, nor answer the desires of their hearts,1 in speaking what they would have him; but his faithfulness must appear in two things.
Lastly, he must be a faithfull minister, one that will not fit mens humors, nor answere the desires of their hearts,1 in speaking what they would have him; but his faithfulnesse must appeare in two things.
- 1A faithful minister and how known.A faithfull minister and how knowne.
First, in dealing plainly with every one, though a man be his patron, or of what place or condition soever he be, if he have a proud heart he must labour to humble him.
First, in dealing plainely with every one, though a man be his patron, or of what place or condition soever he be, if he have a proud heart he must labour to humble him.
And Secondly, as he must apply a salve fitting for the sore, so he must be faithful in keeping secret the sin that is laid open to him, that nothing may fly abroad, no not after his death, except it be in some cases.
And Secondly, as he must apply a salve fitting for the sore, so he must be faithfull in keeping secret the sinne that is laid open to him, that nothing may fly abroad, no not after his death, except it be in some cases.