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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
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But we must still know that this broken tender Heart is not a Plant that grows in our own Soil, but is the peculiar gift of God himself. He that made the Heart, must break the heart: We may be under heart-breaking Providences, and yet the heart remain altogether unbroken; as it was with Pharaoh; whose heart, though it was under the Hammers of ten terrible Judgments, immediately succeeding one another, yet continued hardened against God. The Heart of Man is harder than Hardness it self, ⟨image 9⟩till God softeneth and breaks it; Men move not, they relent not, let God thunder never so terribly; let God in the greatest earnest cast abroad his Firebrands, Arrows, and Death, in the most dreadful representations of Wrath and Judgment, yet still man trembles not, nor is any more astonished than if in all this God were but in jest, till he comes and falls to work with him, and forces him to cry out, What have I done? What shall I do?
But we must still know that this broken tender Heart is not a Plant that grows in our own Soil, but is the peculiar gift of God himself. He that made the Heart, must break the heart: We may be under heart-breaking Providences, and yet the heart remain altogether unbroken; as it was with Pharach; whose heart, though it was under the Hammers of ten terrible Judgments, immediately succeeding one another, yet continued hardened against God. The Heart of Man is harder than Hardness it self, ⟨image 9⟩till God softneth and breaks it; Men move not, they relent not, let God thunder never so terribly; let God in the greatest earnest cast abroad his Firebrands, Arrows, and Death, in the most dreadful representations of Wrath and Judgment, yet still man trembles not, nor is any more astonished than if in all this God were but in jest, till he comes and falls to work vvith him, and forces him to cry out, What have I done? What shall I do?
Therefore let us have recourse to him, who as he gives the new heart, so also therewith the broken heart. ⟨image 9⟩