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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.
For the first, namely what dislike this is; for the clearing of which you must look back to that which I spake before of godly sorrow. For of the very same stamp and nature, is this dislike and hatred of sin; and it is thus much in effect. First,1 there is a hatred in preparation, and secondly, a hatred in sanctification; both are saving works, but both are not sanctifying works: vocation is a saving work, but not a sanctifying work: they are two distinct works.
For the first, namely what dislike this is; for the clearing of which you must looke backe to that which I spake before of godly sorrow. For of the very same stampe and nature, is this dislike and hatred of sinne; and it is thus much in effect. First,1 there is a hatred in preparation, and secondly, a hatred in •sanctification; both are saving workes, but both are not sanctifying workes: vocation is a saving worke, but not a sanctifying worke: they are two distinct workes.
- 1Dislike and hatred of sin what it is.Dislike and hatred of sinne what it is.
This hatred in preparation, is that which the Lord works upon the soul, and smites upon the soul, and thereby puts this kind of turning into the heart; not that the heart hath any powerful inward principle of grace before, (for this is the first that the Lord works) so that as before ⟨p. 247⟩the soul was forced to see sin, and to feel the burden of it; so the heart is now brought to dislike sin; this is a work wrought upon the soul, rather then any thing done by the soul; the Lord is now fitting and preparing the soul for the presence of his blessed Spirit.