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The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart showing the nature, signs…The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart shewing the nature, signs…
The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart showing the nature, signs and proper effects of a contrite spirit / being the last works of that eminent preacher and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Bunyan of Bedford ; with a preface ... by a eminent minister of the Gospel in London.The acceptable sacrifice, or, The excellency of a broken heart shewing the nature, signs and proper effects of a contrite spirit / being the last works of that eminent preacher and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Bunyan of Bedford ; with a preface ... by a eminent minister of the Gospel in London.
London : Printed for and are to be sold by George Larkin ..., 1689
THE Acceptable Sacrifice: OR, THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART.
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.
And this leads me to the second thing, to wit, To show how the heart is broken, and the spirit made, contrite by the Word; And verily it is when the word comes home with Power. But yet this is but general: Wherefore more particularly,
And this leads me to the second thing, to wit, To shew how the heart is broken, and the spirit made, contrite by the Word; And verily it is when the word comes home with Power. But yet this is but general: Wherefore more particularly,
First, Then the Word works effectually to this purpose, when it findeth out the Sinner and his Sin, and shall convince him that it has found him out: Thus it was with our first Father; when he had Sinned, he sought to hide himself from God; he gets among the Trees of the Garden, and there he shrouds himself; but yet not thinking ⟨p. 41⟩himself secure, he covers himself with Fig. Leaves, and now he lieth quiet; now God shall not find me, thinks he, nor know what I have done; but lo, by and by, he hears the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden, and now Adam, what do you mean to do? Why as yet, he skulketh, and hides his head, and seeks yet to lye undiscovered; but behold, the Voice cries out, ADAM! And now he begins to Tremble: Adam, where art thou? Says God, and now Adam is made to Answer: But the Voice of the Lord God doth not leave him here: No, it now begins to search, and to enquire after his doings, and to unravel what he had wrapped together and covered, until it made him bare and Naked in his own sight before the face of God. Gen. 3. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
First, Then the VVord works effectually to this purpose, when it findeth out the Sinner and his Sin, and shall convince him that it has found him out: Thus it was with our first Father; when he had Sinned, he sought to hide himself from God; he gets among the Trees of the Garden, and there he shrouds himself; but yet not thinking ⟨p. 41⟩