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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.
The Instrument with which the Heart is Broken, and with which the Spirit is made Contrite▪ is the Word. Is not my Word▪ says God, like a Fire, and like • Hammer, that breaketh the Ro•• in pieces? Jer. 23. 29.
The Rock in his Text, is th• Heart, which in another place▪ ⟨p. 35⟩is compared to an Adamant▪ which Adamant, is harder than Flint, Zach. • ▪ 11, 12. Ezek. 3. 9.
This Rock, this, Adamant, this Stony Heart, is Broken and made Contrite by the Word. But it only is so, when the Word is as a Fire, and as a Hammer to break and melt it. And then, and then only it is as a Fire, and a Hammer to the Heart to break it, when 'tis managed by the Arm of God. No man can break the Heart with the Word, no Angel can break the Heart with the Word; that is, if God forbears to second it by mighty▪ Power from Heaven. This made Balaam▪ go without an Heart rightly broken, and truly con•••te, though he was rebuked by an Angel; and the Pharisees die in their Sins, though rebuked for them, and admonished