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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.
Mark, God saith, He hath made all these things, but he doth not say, that he will look to them, that is, take complacency and delight in them; No, there is that wanting in all that he hath made, that should take-up and delight h•r heart. But now, let a Broken-hearted Sinner come before him, yea, he ranges the world through, out to find out such an one, and and having found him, To this man, saith he, will I look: I say again, that such a man to him, is of more value then is either Heaven or Earth; They, saith he, shall wax old, they shall perish and vanish ⟨p. 10⟩away, but this man he continues, he, as is presented to us in another place, under another character, he shall abide for ever. Heb. 1. 10, 11, 12. 1 John 2. 17.
To this man will I look, with this man will I be delighted; for so to look, doth sometimes signify: Thou hast ravished my heart, my Sister, my Spouse, saith Christ to his humble hearted, thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine Eyes, (while it is as a Conduit to let the rivers out of thy broken heart) I am taken saith he, with one chain of thy Neck, Song 4. 9. Here you see he looks and is ravished, he looks and is taken, as it saith in another place, The King is held in the Galleries, Song 7. 5. That is, is taken with his Beloved, with the Doves Eyes of his Beloved, Chap 1. 15. with the contrite spirit of his People.
To this man will I look, with this man will I be delighted; for so to look, doth sometimes signifie: Thou hast ravished my heart, my Sister, my Spouse, saith Christ to his humble hearted, thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine Eyes, (while it is as a Conduit to let the rivers out of thy broken heart) I am taken saith he, with one chain of thy Neck, Song 4. 9. Here you see he looks and is ravisht, he looks and is taken, as it saith in another place, The King is held in the Galleries, Song 7. 5. That is, is taken with his Beloved, with the Doves Eyes of his Beloved, Chap 1. 15. with the contrite spirit of his People.