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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.
Secondly, Consider that God the Father did accept of the laying down of his life in this behalf, Joh. 10, 17. The Father loves him, because he laid down his life.
Thirdly, Consider and reason with thy self, O my soul, What though there are great arguments to greaten sin, and to heighten sin; so there are many great arguments to greaten the mercy of God in Christ. Are thy sins great? the mercies of God are greater. Do thy sins deserve great punishments, even eternal death? the death of Jesus Christ, and the merit of Christ are of infinite value to merit life, even eternal life. Are thy sins the sins of a man? I but the satisfactions ⟨p. 48⟩of Jesus Christ, are the satisfactions of a God; do thy sins merit the frowns of God? O but Christs death doth merit and purchase the favour of God. In a word, as Christs Person doth excel thy person: so doth his obedience infinitely exceed thy disobedience; therefore said the Apostle Paul, Rom. 5. 16. &c. But the free gift is of many offences unto justification. Here the Apostle intimates, that though there is great guilt in sin, yet there is greater mercy and merits in Christ; for as by Adam there came sin and death: so by Jesus Christ there came righteousness and life; for as the wages of sin is death: so the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. 6. 23. There is not so much guilt in sin, as there is merit in Christ; there is not so much guilt in sin to condemn, as there is merit in Jesus Christ to save. Therefore why shouldest thou be cast down, O my soul? Jesus Christ hath laid down his life for me; and in laying down his life, he hath made full satisfaction for sin unto his Father; and though there are required more tears for sin by way of humiliation: yet there wanteth no more blood for sin by way of satisfaction; therefore be not thou excessively cast down for sin.