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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.
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.