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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.
The stony Nature of it, is therefore said to be taken away of God. I will take away the stony Heart out of your Flesh, and will give you, saith he, an Heart of Flesh, Ezel•. 36. 26.
I will take away the stony Heart, or the Stoniness, or the the Hardness of your Heart, and I will give you an Heart of Flesh; ⟨p. 148⟩that is, I will make your Heart sensible, soft, wieldable, governable and penitent. Sometimes he bids Men rent their Hearts, not because they can, but to convince them rather, that though it must be so, they cannot do it: So he bids them make themselves a New Heart, and a New Spirit, for the same purpose also; for if God doth not Rent it, it remains Unrent; if God makes it not new, it abides an old one still.
This is that that is meant, by his Bending of Men for Himself, and of his working in them, that which is pleasing in his Sight, Zach. 9. 13.