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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.
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.
But it is not thus reported of ⟨p. 11⟩him with respect to heaven or earth, them he sets more lightly by; Them he reserves unto Fire against the day of Judgment, and P•rdation of Ungodly Men, 2 Pet. 3. 7. But the Broken in Heart are his Beloved, his Jewels.
Wherefore what I have said as to this, must go for the Truth of God, to wit, That a broken hearted Sinner, a Sinner with a Contrite Spirit, is of more esteem with God, then is either heaven or earth: He saith, He hath made them, but he doth not say, He will look to them; He saith, They are his Throne and Footstool; but he doth not say, They have taken or ravished his heart; No, 'tis those that are of a Contrite Spirit do this.