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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.
2. Now also, the least hopes of Mercy for his Soul, O, how Precious is it! He that was wont to make Orts of the Gospel, and that valued Promises but a• Stubble, and the Words of God but as Rotten Wood: Now, with what an Eye doth he loo• on the Promise? Yea, he counteth a Peradventure of Mercy, more rich, more worth than all the World. Now as we say▪ He is glad to leap at a Crust; now to be a Dog in God's House, […] ⟨p. 75⟩counted better by him, than to dwell in the Tents of the Wicked, Matt. 15. 26, 27. Luke 15. 17, 18, 19.
2. Now also, the least hopes of Mercy for his Soul, O, how Precious is it! He that was wont to make Orts of the Gospel, and that valued Promises but a• Stubble, and the Words of God but as Rotten Wood: Now, with what an Eye doth he loo• on the Promise? Yea, he counteth a Peradventure of Mercy, more rich, more worth than all the World. Now as we say▪ He is glad to leap at a Crust; now to be a Dog in God's House, 〈…〉 ⟨p. 75⟩counted better by him, than to dwell in the Tents of the Wicked, Matt. 15. 26, 27. Luke 15. 17, 18, 19.
3. Now he that was wont' to look scornfully upon the People of God, yea, that used to scorn to show them a gentle cast of his Countenance; Now he admires and bows before them, and is ready to lick the Dust of their Feet; and would count it his greatest, the highest Honour, to be as one of the least of them. Make me as one of thy Hired Servants, says he,