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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, And that is, He is a very sorrowful Man. Thus, as the other is natural, 'tis natural to one that is in Pain, and that has his Bones broken, to be a grieved and sorrowful Man.
He is none of the jolly ones of the times, nor can he, for his Bones, his Heart, his Heart is broken.
1. He is sorry for that he feels and finds in himself, a Pravity of Nature: I told you before, he is sensible of it, he sees it, he feels it; and here I say, he is sorry for it. 'Tis this that makes him call himself wretched Man; 'tis this that makes him loath and abhor himself; 'tis this that makes him Blush; blush before God and be Ashamed, Rom. 7. 24. Job 42. 5, 6. Ezek. 36. 31.
He finds by Nature, no Form nor Comeliness in himself; but the more he looks in the Glass ⟨p. 61⟩