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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.
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, Luke 15. 19.
3. Now he that was wont' to look scornfully upon the People of God, yea, that used to scorn to shew 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, Luke 15. 19.
4. Now he is in his own Eyes the greatest Fool in Nature, for that he sees he has been so mistaken in his ways, and has not yet but little, if any true Knowledge of God. Every one now, says he, has more Knowledge of God than I, every one serves ⟨p. 76⟩him better than I, Psal. 73. 21, 22 Prov. 30. 2, 3.
5. Now may he be but one, though the least in the Kingdom of Heaven! Now may he be but one, though the least in the Church on Earth! Now may he •e but loved, though the least beloved of Saints! How high an Account doth he set thereon!