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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.
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 that it loathes all occasions that may maintain his sin: as the drunkard and adulterer hate the place where they went in to commit sin.
Lastly, hee labours to crosse and undermine all those occasions and meanes that have given any succour to his corruptions of heart: the soule ⟨p. 253⟩hath such a secret grudge against the thriving of sinne,1 that it lothes all occasions that may maintaine his sinne: as the drunkard and adulterer hate the place where they went in to commit sinne.
- 1He hates all occasions and means of sinning.