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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.
You know, broken Bones occasion Pain, strong Pain; yea, Pain that will make a Man or Woman Groan, with the Groaning of a deadly wounded Man, Ezek. 30. 24.
Soul-Pain is the sorest Pain, in comparison to which, the Pain of the Body is a very tolerable thing, Prov. 18. 14.
Now, here is Soul-Pain, here is Heart-Pain, here we are discoursing of a Wounded, of a Broken Spirit: Wherefore this is Pain to be felt to the sinking of the whole Man; neither can any support this but God. Here is Death in this Pain, Death for ever, without God's special Mercy: This Pain will bring the Soul to, and this the Brokenhearted man doth feel. The Sorrows of Death, said David, Compassed me about, and the Pains of Hell got hold upon me, and I found Trouble and Sorrow, Psal. 116.
Aye, I'll warrant thee, poor Man, thou foundest Trouble and Sorrow indeed. For the Pains of Hell, and Sorrows of Death, are Pains and Sorrow the most intolerable. But this the Man is acquainted with, that has his Heart Broken.