A49242:104
The dejected souls cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and…The dejected soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and…
The dejected souls cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and cautions in several cases. In divers sermons, by Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury. To which is added, I. The ministry of the angels to the heirs of salvation. II. Gods omnipresence. III. The sinners legacy to their posterity.The dejected soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and cautions in severall cases. In divers sermons, by Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury. To which is added, I. The ministry of the angels to the heirs of salvation. II. Gods omnipresence. III. The sinners legacy to their posterity.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1657
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.
But Secondly, That man is cast down for sin too much when is so cast down for sin that he doth cast off duty: when a man shall thus reason against himself, what need I pray? and what need I perform holy duties, I know God will not hear me? he will not hear my prayers let me pray as long as I can, and as often as I will. And so for confession of sin, what need I confess sin, I know God will not pardon my sin? and what need I beg grace, I know God will not give me grace? and what need I hear sermons, I know God will not hear me, nor accept of my duties, and I shall not get good by all I do, and by all hear? These reasonings O man are very sinful, and it argues a great degree of too much humiliation for sin: As despair in any man cuts off hope; so also such a sinful frame cuts off endeavours. Fools go on (saith Solomon) and are confident; 1but sometimes fools go on and are careless: and for a man to be so cast down for sin as to be careless in discharge ⟨p. 18⟩of duties, it argues too much dejection of spirit: Despair is the total eclipse of the mind with the blackest fumes arising from the burning lake of fearful terrors.
But Secondly, That man is cast down for sin too much when is so cast down for sin that he doth cast off duty: when a man shall thus reason against himself, what need I pray? and what need I perform holy duties, I know God will not hear me? he will not hear my prayers let me pray as long as I can, and as often as I will. And so for confession of sin, what need I confesse sin, I know God will not pardon my sin? and what need I beg grace, I know God will not give me grace? and what need I hear sermons, I know God will not hear me, nor accept of my duties, and I shall not get good by all I doe, and by all hear? These reasonings O man are very sinful, and it argues a great degree of too much humiliation for sin: As despair in any man cuts off hope; so also such a sinful frame cuts off endeavours. Fools go on (saith Solomon) and are confident; 1but sometimes fools go on and are carelesse: and for a man to be so cast down for sin as to be careless in discharge ⟨p. 18⟩of duties, it argues too much dejection of spirit: Despair is the total eclipse of the mind with the blackest fumes arising from the burning lake of fearful terrors.