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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.
The second Reason is this, it ariseth from a principle of presumption of pardoning grace and mercy; when wicked men hear the thunderings and curses of the Law denounced against sin and sinners delivered by the Ministers of the Gospel to awaken them from the sleep of sin and security; when they hear of the severity of Gods justice, and that he is a sin-revenging God, and that he will by no means clear the guilty, but will render to every one according to his ways and works; Now what doth a wicked man do in this case? doth this awaken his conscience to see the evil of sin? (no) but he doth the quite contrary: he then from a principle of presumption of pardoning grace and mercy in God, blesseth himself in his own ways, and he saith, I shall have peace, though I walk after the imaginations of my own evil heart: as if they 1should say, Let sin trouble them that will, let it cast down them that will be cast down, it shall never cast down me, it ⟨p. 28⟩shall never trouble me; What shall sin trouble my conscience' or disquiet my peace for? or why shall I mourn and trouble my self about that which I need not? that which others seem to break their hearts for, it shall never break my sleep; for I hope that it shall never damn my soul; but I hope though I do commit sin, yet I hope God will pardon sin; and though I am sinful, yet I know God is merciful: and thus they do from a principle of presumption go on in a way of sin without any trouble for it, or casting down under the sight and sense of sin at all.
The second Reason is this, it ariseth from a principle of presumption of pardoning grace and mercy; when wicked men hear the thunderings and curses of the Law denounced against sin and sinners delivered by the Ministers of the Gospel to awaken them from the sleep of sin and security; when they hear of the severity of Gods justice, and that he is a sinrevenging God, and that he will by no means clear the guilty, but will render to every one according to his waies and works; Now what doth a wicked man doe in this case? doth this awaken his conscience to see the evil of sin? (no) but he doth the quite contrary: he then from a principle of presumption of pardoning grace and mercy in God, blesseth himself in his own waies, and he saith, I shall have peace, though I walk after the imaginations of my own evil heart: as if they 1