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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.
1. Thou wilt see a singular dexterity in comforting troubled dejected souls, which is certainly one main work of a Gospel ministry. God would have his people comforted, and the Gospel is a dispensation chequered with Gods glory, and his peoples comfort; the whole chain of salvation is enamelled with these two, that our hearts might be ravished with it: God hath inseparably linked these together, and so they are to be held out in the dispensation of the Gospel, which is called glad tidings of great joy, Luke 2. 10. The Gospel of salvation, Eph. 1. 13. Glad tidings of peace, of good things, Rom. 10. 15. But who is sufficient for these things? It is a piece of singular skill, not learned in the school of Philosophers, no nor yet at the feet of Gamaliel, but under the pedagogy of the Spirit himself, who is [Greek or Hebrew], & [Greek or Hebrew], the Comforter. To be able to speak a word in season to him that is weary; Such a one is an interpreter, a messenger ⟨image 5⟩one of a thousand. And the Prophet Isaiah, Isa. 51. 4. speaks of it as a special gift. Though Jerome and other ancient Expositors understand the words of Christ, who is indeed commissioned, and fitted by God for this work of binding up the broken in heart, Isa. 61. 1. (being that true Samaritan that pours his cleansing Wine and suppling Oil into wounded spirits) yet the words by the Jews, Galvin and Aquinas are interpreted of the Prophet; and no question but this gift God doth in a more then ordinary manner furnish some of his Ministers with, according as his Church hath need of them. Though there be many good Chirurgeons in London, yet all are not Masters of the Hospital, and many good Physicians in England, yet all are not public professors. So, though God hath given to all his Ministers a charge to seek that which is lost, & to heal that which is sick, & bind up that which is broken: yet everyone is not in a like measure able 1and fit for these works. How much is here spoken to satisfy and settle a doubting Christian, we had rather thou shouldst find by thy own experience, then our report.