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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.
Now all these are the fruits of the Spirit of God, and of the ⟨p. 200⟩Heart, when it is Broken: Wherefore Soul, Take notice of them, and because these are Texts by which God promiseth, that those whom he saveth, shall have this Heart, this Spirit, and these holy effects in them: Therefore consider again, and examine thy self, whether this is the state and condition of thy Soul.
And that thou mayst do it fully, consider again, and do thou,
1. Remember that here is such a sense of Sin, and of the irksomeness thereof, as maketh the man, not only to abhor that, but himself, because of that: This is worth the noting by thee.
1. Remember that here is such a sence of Sin, and of the irksomness thereof, as maketh the man, not only to abhor that, but himself, because of that: This is worth the noting by thee.
2 Remember again, That here is not only a Self-abhorrence, but a sorrowful, kind mourning unto God, at the consideration, that the Soul by Sin has affronted, contemned disregarded,