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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.
Such conferences as these with thy own heart, will be a means to awaken thy heart from the sleep of security, to consider of its own estate, this is thy duty; let this be your practice to enter into a discourse with your own hearts as David did; But I shall not follow this particular.
Such conferences as these with thy own heart, will be a means to awaken thy heart from the sleep of securitie, to consider of its own estate, this is thy duty; let this be your practice to enter into a discourse with your own hearts as David did; But I shall not follow this particular.
There is something more in the words to be considered, and that is the manner how David doth speak to his own soul, and how he reasoneth with his own heart and saith, Why art thou cast down, O my soul? from this manner of speech consider this doctrine.
Doctrine 2 That a child of God should check his soul for, and use holy reasonings against excessive castings down for sin; and this I ⟨p. 45⟩draw from the manner of the Psalmists speech; he checks his own heart, and reasons with his own soul concerning this particular, Why art thou cast down, O my soul?