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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.
IN this great work of preparation for Christ, Observe two things. First, the dispensation of the work of Grace on Gods part, he pulls a sinner from sin to himself; & Secondly, the frame and temper of spirit that God works in the hearts of those, that he doth draw: and that makes its self known in two particulars; partly ⟨p. 2⟩in Contrition, partly in humiliation; For our better proceeding in the prosecution of these two main points, I shall handle them severally, and at large. And first we will sift out what this Contrition and humiliation is, that we may not deceive our selves, and think we have them, when it is nothing so.
IN this great worke of preparation for Christ, Observe two things. First, the dispensation of the worke of Grace on Gods part, he pulls a sinner from sinne to himselfe; & Secondly, the frame and temper of spirit that God workes in the hearts of those, that he doth draw: and that makes its selfe knowne in two particulars; partly ⟨p. 2⟩in Contrition, partly in humiliation; For our better proceeding in the prosecution of these two maine points, I shall handle them severally, and at large. And first we will sift out what this Contrition and humiliation is, that we may not deceive our selves, and thinke we have them, when it is nothing so.
1This Contrition (as I conceive) is nothing else, but namely when a sinner by the sight of sin, and vileness of it, and the punishment due to the same, is made sensible of sin, and is made to hate it, and hath his heart separated from the same; and the sight of sin makes it self known in three particulars: §1First, when the soul is sensible of sin; §2Secondly, when it hath a hearty and sound sorrow for the same, and an earnest detestation of it. §3