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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. › The USE
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 consideration of these things, call a loud to us to take heed, that we take not that for a Broken and a Contrite Spirit, that will not go for one at the day of Death and Judgment.
Wherefore, seeking Soul, let me advise thee, that thou mayst not be deceived as to this thing of so great weight.
Wherefore, seeking Soul, let me advise thee, that thou mayst not be decieved as to this thing of so great weight.
1. To go back towards the beginning of this book, and compare thy self with those six ⟨p. 196⟩or seven signs of a Broken and a Contrite Heart, which there I have, according to the word of God, given to thee for that end; and deal with thy Soul impartially about them.
2. Or, which may, and will be great help to thee, if thou shalt be sincere therein; namely, to betake thy self to the search of the Word, especially where thou readest of the Conversion of men, and try if thy Conversation be like, or has a good resemblance or oneness with theirs: But in this have a care, that thou dost not compare thy self with those good Folk, of whose Conversion thou readest not, or of the breaking of whose Heart, there is no mention made in Scripture; for all that are recorded in the Scripture for Saints, have not their Conversion as to the manner or nature