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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
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But Alas! The Broken-Hearted are far off from this, they faint, they reckon themselves among the dead, they think God will remember them no more; the thoughts of the greatness of God and his holiness, and their own Sins and Vilenesses, will certainly consume them; they feel guilt and anguish of Soul, they go Mourning all the day long; their Mouth is full of gravel and gall, and they are made to drink draughts of Wormwood and Gaul: So that he must be an artist indeed at believing, who can come to God under his guilt and horror, and plead in faith, that the Sacrifices of God are a Broken Heart, ⟨p. 207⟩such as he had, and that a Broken and a Contrite Spirit, God will not despise.
But Alas! The Broken-Hearted are far off from this, they faint, they reckon themselves among the dead, they think God will remember them no more; the thoughts of the greatness of God and his holiness, and their own Sins and Vilenesses, will certainly consume them; they feel guilt and anguish of Soul, they go Mourning all the day long; their Mouth is full of gravil and gaul, and they are made to drink draughts of Wormwood and Gaul: So that he must be an artist indeed at believing, who can come to God under his guilt and horror, and plead in faith, that the Sacrifices of God are a Broken Heart, ⟨p. 207⟩such as he had, and that a Broken and a Contrite Spirit, God will not despise.
Fifthly, If a Broken Heart, if a Broken and a Contrite Spirit, is of such esteem with God; Then why should some be, as they are, so afraid of a Broken Heart, and so shy of a Contrite Spirit?
I have observed, that some men are as fraid of a Broken Heart, or that they for their sins should have their hearts Broken, as the Dog is of the Whip. O! They can't away with such Books, with such Sermons, with such Preachers, or with such talk, as tends to make a man sensible of, and to Break his Heart, and to make him Contrite for his Sins. Hence they heap to themselves such Teachers, get such Books, Love such Company, and delight in such Discourse, as rather tends to harden,