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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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THE CURE of MELANCHOLY AND OVERMUCH-SORROW BY FAITH and PHYSIC. Quest. What are the best Preservatives against Melancholy and Overmuch Sorrow? SERMON XI.
THE CƲRE of MELANCHOLY AND OVERMUCH-SORROW BY FAITH and PHYSICK. Quest. What are the best Preservatives against Melancholy and Overmuch Sorrow? SERMON XI.
2 COR. II.VII. Lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
The Brevity of a Sermon not allowing me Time for any unnecessary Work, I shall not stay to open the Context, nor to enquire whether the Person here spoken of, be the same that is condemned for Incest, in 1 Cor: 5. or some other; nor whether Chrysostom had good Tradition for it, that it was a Doctor of the Church, or made such after his Sin? nor whether the late Expositor be in the right, who thence gathers that he was one of the Bishops of Achaia, and that it was a Synod of Bishops that were to excommunicate him;1 (who yet held that every Congregation then had a Bishop, and that he was to be excommunicated in the Congregation, and that the People should not ⟨p. 264⟩have followed or favoured such a Teacher: It would have been no Schism or sinful Separation to have forsaken him.) All that I now intend, is to open this last Clause of the Verse, which gives the Reason why the censured Sinner being penitent, should be forgiven and comforted, viz. Lest he should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow; as it includeth these three Doctrines, which I shall handle all together, viz: 1. That Sorrow, even for Sin, may be overmuch. 2. That overmuch Sorrow swalloweth one up. 3. Therefore it must be resisted and assuaged by necessary Comfort (both by others, and by our selves)