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The oil of gladnessThe oyle of gladnesse
The oil of gladness. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certain sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.
London: printed by G. Miller for George Edwards, 1637
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.
§ 6.
Only brethren you must remember how we limited the point, viz. that after we have humbled our selves we must ⟨p. 28⟩then take comfort, and not before.
Onely brethren you must remember how we limited the point, viz. that after we have humbled our selves we must ⟨p. 28⟩then take comfort, and not before.
There is a time saith Solomon to mourn and a time to laugh, we must take time to rend our hearts and to turn to the Lord with mourning and contrition; and then we must take time also to stir up, and to revive our hearts, and to embrace the Lords mercies with all joyfulness: we must beware of making too much hast to comfort our selves, as also of being too slow to the work. If the sore be not throughly drawn ⟨p. 29⟩before it be healed, then the festered matter will break out again, and the cure will not be well effected, and if it be not healed after drawing, no soundness will come to the member affected. As the body, so the soul must be healed soundly, and to the bottom, and not skinned over with untimely and preposterous and ungrounded consolations.