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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.
Secondly, What is meant by the Word CONTRITE. A Contrite Spirit is a Renitent […]; one sorely grieved and deeply sorrowful for the Sins it has committed against God, and to the Damage of the Soul; and so i• ⟨p. 48⟩is to be taken in all those places where a contrite Spirit is made mention of. As in Psal. 34. 18. Isa. 57. 15. Chap. 66. 2.
Secondly, What is meant by the Word CONTRITE. A Contrite Spirit is a Renitent 〈…〉; one sorely grieved and deeply sorrowful for the Sins it has committed against God, and to the Damage of the Soul; and so i• ⟨p. 48⟩is to be taken in all those places where a contrite Spirit is made mention of. As in Psal. 34. 18. Isa. 57. 15. Chap. 66. 2.
As a Man that has by his Folly procured a broken Leg or Arm▪ is heartily sorry, that ever he was so foolish, as to be engaged in such foolish Ways of Idleness and Vanity: So he whose Heart is broken, with a sense of God's Wrath due to his Sin, hath deep sorrow in his Soul, and is greatly Repentant, that ever he should be such a Fool, as by Rebellious doings, to bring himself and his Soul to so much sharp Affliction. Hence, while others are sporting themselves in Vanity, such a one doth call his Sin, his greatest Folly: My wounds stink, and are corrupt, said David, because of my Foolishness. And again▪ O God, thou knowest my Foolishness, and my Sins are not hi