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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.
Christ, as I said, is called a Physician; yea, he is the only Soul Physician. He heals, how desperate soever the Disease be; yea, and heals who he undertakes for ever. I give unto them Eternal Life, (John 10. 27, 28.) and doth all of free Cost, of mere Mercy and Compassion.
Christ, as I said, is called a Physician; yea, he is the only Soul Physician. He heals, how desperate soever the Disease be; yea, and heals who he undertakes for ever. I give unto them Eternal Life, (John 10. 27, 28.) and doth all of free Cost, of meer Mercy and Compassion.
But what's all this to one that neither sees his Sickness, that sees nothing of a Wound? What is the best Physician alive, or all the Physicians in the World▪ ⟨p. 161⟩put all together, to him that knows no Sickness, that is sensible of no Disease? Physicians, as was said, may go a begging, for all the healthful; Physicians are of no esteem save only to the Sick, or upon a supposition of being so now, or at any other time.
But what's all this to one that neither sees his Sickness, that sees nothing of a Wound? What is the best Physician alive, or all the Physicans in the World▪ ⟨p. 161⟩put all together, to him that knows no Sickness, that is sensible of no Disease? Physicians, as was said, may go a begging, for all the healthful; Physicians are of no esteem save only to the Sick, or upon a supposition of being so now, or at any other time.