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A30118 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. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1689 (1689) Wing B5480; ESTC R4996 69,020 270

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with those six or seven signs of a Broken and a Contrite Heart which there I have according to the word of God given to thee for that end and deal with thy Soul impartially about them 2. Or which may and will be great help to thee if thou shalt be sincere therein namely to betake thy self to the search of the Word especially where thou readest of the Conversion of men and try if thy Conversation be like or has a good resemblance or oneness with theirs But in this have a care that thou dost not compare thy self with those good Folk of whose Conversion thou readest not or of the breaking of whose Heart there is no mention made in Scripture for all that are recorded in the Scripture for Saints have not their Conversion as to the manner or nature of it recorded in the Scripture 3. Or else Do thou consider truly of the true signs of Repentance which are laid down in Scripture for that is the true effect of a Broken Heart and of a wounded Spirit And for this see Mat. 3. 5 6. Luke 18. 13. Chap. 19. 8. Act 2. 37 38 39 40 c. Chap. 16. 29 30. Chap. 19. 18 19. 2 Cor. 7 8 9 10 11. 4. Or else Take into Consideration how God has said they shall be in their Spirits that he intends to Save And for this read these Scriptures 1. That in the One and Thirtieth of Jeremiah They shall come with Weeping and with Supplication will I l●●d them c. V. 9. 2. Read Jer. 50. 4 5. In those days and at that time the Children of Israel shall come they and the Children of Judah together going and weeping They shall go and seek the Lord their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward saying Come and let us joyn our-selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten 3. Read Ezek. 6. 9. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the Nations whither they shall be carried Captives because I am broken with their who● rish Heart which have departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their Idols And they shall loath themselves for the Evils which they have committed in all their Abominations 4. Read Ezek. 7. 16. But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the Mountains like Doves of the Valleys all of them Mourning every one for his Iniquity 5. Read Ezek. 20. 43. And there shall ye remember your ways and all your doings wherein ye have been defiled and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have commited 6. Read Ezek. 36. 31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your Iniquities and for your Abominations 7. Read Zech. 12. 10. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and of Suplications And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born Now all these are the fruits of the Spirit of God and of the Heart when it is Broken Wherefore Soul Take notice of them and because these are Texts by which God promiseth that those whom he saveth shall have this Heart this Spirit and these holy effects in them Therefore consider again and examine thy self whether this is the state and condition of thy Soul. And that thou mayst do it fully consider again and do thou 1. Remember that here is such a sence of Sin and of the irksomness thereof as maketh the man not only to abhor that but himself because of that This is worth the noting by thee 2 Remember again That here is not only a Self-abhorrence but a sorrowful kind mourning unto God at the consideration that the Soul by Sin has affront●d contemned disregarded and set at nought both God and his holy Word 3. Remember also That here are Prayers and Tears for Mercy with desires to be now out of love with Sin for ever and to be in Heart and Soul firmly joyned and knit unto God. 4. Remember also That this People here spoken of have all the way from Satan to God from Sin to Grace from Death to Life scattered with Tears and Prayers with Weeping and Supplication They shall go weeping and seeking the Lord their God. 5. Remember that these People as Strangers and Pilgrims do are not ashamed to ask the way of those they meet with to Zion or the Heavenly Countrey whereby they confess their ignorance as became them their desire to know the way to Life yea thereby they declare that there is nothing in this world under the Sun or this side Heaven that can satisfie the longings the desires and cravings of a Broken and Contrite Spirit Reader be advised and consider of these things seriously and compare thy Soul with them and with what else thou shalt find here written for thy Conviction and Instruction Fourthly If a broken Heart and a contrite Spirit be of such esteem with God Then this should encourage them that have it to come to God with it I know the GREAT encouragement for men to come to God is for that there is a Mediator between God and men the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. ● 5. This I say is the GREAT Encouragement in its place there is none but that but there are other Encouragements subordinate to that and a Broken and a Contrite Spirit is one of them this is evident from several places of Scripture Wherefore thou that canst carry a Broken Heart and a Sorrowful Spirit with thee when thou goest to God tell him thy Heart is wounded within thee that thou hast Sorrow in thy Heart and art Sorry for thy Sins but take heed of Lying Confess also thy Sins unto him and tell him they are continually before thee David made an argument of these things when he went to God by Prayer O Lord saith he Rebuke me not in thine Anger neither chasten me in thy sore displeasure But why so O says he thine Arrows stick fast in me and thy hand ●resseth me sore There is no soundness in my Flesh because of thine Anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my Sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long For my loins are filled with a lothsom disease and there is no soundness in my Flesh. I am feeble and sore broken I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee My heart panteth my