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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.
As a man that hates a murderer, he will not only keep him from his own house, but he pursues him even to the place of Justice: So the Soul that truly hates sin, will not only keep sin from his own heart, but he will pluck it from the hearts of others, so far as possibly he may.
As a man that hates a murderer, hee will not onely keepe him from his owne house, but hee pursues him even to the place of Justice: So the Soule that truly hates sinne, will not onely keepe sinne from his owne heart, but hee will plucke it from the hearts of others, so farre as possibly he may.
When Haman had a spleen against Mordecai, he was not only desirous to kill him, but he would kill all the nation of the Jews, this was hatred indeed: so it is with a broken heart. If a broken hearted father have had a proud heart, and hath been wearied with it, he labours to kill all the brood of those cursed distempers in his children.
When Haman had a spleene against Mordecai, hee was not onely desirous to kill him, but hee would kill all the nation of the Iewes, this was hatred indeed: so it is with a broken heart. If a broken hearted father have had a proud heart, and hath beene wearyed with it, hee labours to kill all the brood of those cursed distempers in his children.
Lastly, he labours to cross and undermine all those occasions and means that have given any succour to his corruptions of heart: the soul ⟨p. 253⟩hath such a secret grudge against the thriving of sin,1