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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.
The reason why,1 and how it comes to pass, that God deals thus with poor sinners, is taken from the office which the Lord hath placed between the heart & the man, the ground lies thus.
The reason why,1 and how it comes to passe, that God deales thus with poore sinners, is taken from the office which the Lord hath placed between the heart & the man, the ground lies thus.
- 1Reason.
There are two things in the soul;1 First, you conceive and understand a thing. Secondly, you will, and choose it.
There are two things in the soule;1 First, you conceive and understand a thing. Secondly, you will, and choose it.
- 1Why God convinceth men of their sins.Why God convinceth men of their sinnes.
The first is the inlet of the heart, so that nothing can affect the heart, but so far as reason conceiveth it, and ushers it home to the soul; thereupon the heart, as the King hath his Councillors which call all matters before them, and consult about business, & then they bring them before the King, to have a final sentence from him, to know what he will have and what he will not have; So the understanding is like the Counsellors, and the will is the Queen; the understanding saith, this or that is good, then the will saith, let me have it; the understanding saith, these and these duties are required, and the will embraceth them; the understanding conceives what sin is, and the will saith, these and these evils have I done, and they will cost me my life if I