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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 demonstration of this is plain, for that Heart, God will ⟨p. 4⟩not despise it; A Broken and a Contrite Heart, O God thou wilt not despise.
Whence I draw this Conclusion: That a Spirit rightly broken, an Heart truly Contrite, is to God an Excellent thing.
That is, a thing that goeth beyond all External Duties whatever; for that is intended by this saying, The Sacrifices, because it answereth to all Sacrifices which we can offer to God; yea, it serveth in the room of all: All our Sacrifices, without this, are nothing, this alone is all.
There are four things that are very acceptable to God. The
First is, The Sacrifice of the Body of Christ for our Sins, of this you read