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 second Difference, Wicked men may be disquieted for sin, and for some outward acts of sin, but they are never troubled for the inward habit of sin; for the sinful nature, that depraved disposition of heart to sin. We read, many times wicked men have been troubled for the reigning acts of sin, but never troubled at all for the sin of their nature. Cain he was troubled for the murdering his brother, and Balaam ⟨p. 168⟩for Witchcraft, and Ahab was troubled for the sinful acts of Idolatry, Judas for his treachery, and Saul for his cruelty; but neither these nor any wicked man in the World was troubled for original sin, for the depravity of their natures. But now godly men their disquietness for sin, doth not only reach to the acts, but also to the habits of sin, to the natural depravity which is the foundation and fountain from whence all these corrupt actions flow; this is that which doth greatly trouble them. You read of Paul, in Rom. 7. 24. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (or this body of death;) alluding to those sins ¹wherein men were wont in a way of punishment to tie a dead body to a living body; he speaks here of his body of sinful and depraved nature, that was to him as a dead man tied to a living man, whereas before conversion, he never did complain of any inward corruption, nor once make mention of corrupt nature. Art thou troubled for sin? but can thy conscience bear thee witness thy disquietness of soul is for the sin and depravity of thy nature as well as for the sins of thy life? Art thou troubled as well for the nature of sin as well as for the acts of sin? Art thou troubled as well for the corrupt fountain as well as for the corrupt streams that flow from thence? If thou art thus troubled and disquieted for sin, all thy conflicts with sin shall end in conquest over sin another day.

The second Difference, Wicked men may be disquieted for sin, and for some outward acts of sin, but they are never troubled for the inward habit of sin; for the sinful nature, that depraved disposition of heart to sin. We read, many times wicked men have been troubled for the raigning acts of sin, but never troubled at all for the sin of their nature. Cain he was troubled for the murdering his brother, and Balaam ⟨p. 168⟩