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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.
Yea, They are designed for them, he hath therefore Broken their Hearts, he hath therefore wounded their Spirits; that he might make them apt to relish his reviving Cordials, that he might minister to them his reviving Comforts.
For indeed, so soon as he hath Broken; His Bowels yearn, and his Compassions roll up and down within him, and will not suffer him to abide Afflicting: Ephraim was one of these; but so so on as God had smitten him, behold his heart, how it works toward him; Is Ephraim, saith he, my dear Son? that is, he is so; Is he a pleasant Child? that is, he is so; for since I spake against him, I do earnestly ⟨p. 20⟩remember him still, therefore my bowels are troubled for him, I will surely have Mercy upon him, saith the Lord God: Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20. This therefore is another demonstration.
For indeed, so soon as he hath Broken; His Bowels yearn, and his Compassions roul up and down within him, and will not suffer him to abide Afflicting: Ephraim was one of these; but so so on as God had smitten him, behold his heart, how it works toward him; Is Ephraim, saith he, my dear Son? that is, he is so; Is he a pleasant Child? that is, he is so; for since I spake against him, I do earnestly ⟨p. 20⟩remember him still, therefore my bowels are troubled for him, I will surely have Mercy upon him, saith the Lord God: Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20. This therefore is another demonstration.
Fifthly, As God prefers such a Heart, and esteems the man that has it, above Heaven and Earth; as he covets Intimacy with such an one, and prepares for him his Cordials: So when he sent his Son JESUS into the world to be a Saviour; He gave him in special, a charge to take care of such; yea, that was one of the main reasons he sent him down from Heaven, Anointed for his work on Earth.