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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, Man, take him as he comes into the World (and how wise soever he is, in Worldly and Temporal Things) He is yet a Fool, as to that which is Spiritual and Heavenly. Hence, he says, The Natural Man receiveth not the things that are of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, (because he is indeed a Fool to them,) neither, says the Text, can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2. 14.
Secondly, Man, take him as he comes into the World (and how wise soever he is, in Worldly and Temporal Things) He is yet a Fool, as to that which is Spiritual and Heavenly. Hence, he says, The Natural Man receiveth not the things that are of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, (because he is indeed a Fool to them,) neither, says the Text, can he know them, for they are spiritually descerned, 1 Cor. 2. 14.
But, how now? Must this Fool be made Wise? Why Wisdom must be put into his Heart, Job 38. 36.
But, how now? Must this Fool be made Wise? VVhy VVisdom must be put into his Heart, Job 38. 36.
Now none can put it there but God; and how doth he put it there, but by making room there for it, by taking away the thing which hinders, which is that Folly and Madness which naturally dwelleth there? But how doth he take that away, but by a severe Chastising of his Soul for it, until he has made him weary of it? The Whip and Stripes are provided for the Natural Fool, and so it is for him that is Spiritually so,