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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 eighth Difference is this, Wicked men under disquiet for sin, they do more complain of God then they do complain to God; but Good men more complain to God then ⟨p. 175⟩of God, when they are disquieted for sin; wicked men more complain of God than to God. It is the usual behaviour of the wicked to complain wretchedly against God, but not humbly to God, when they are in horror of conscience under the disquiet of sin, Revel. 16. 9. And men were scorched with great beat, and blasphemed the Name of God. It is said of the followers of Antichrist, they were scorched with heat, and blasphemed the Name of God. When God doth let the fire of his wrath scorch the consciences of men with rage against the Church, this doth but make them Blaspheme God; As thus in Isa. 8. 21. It shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their King, & their God, and look upward; They cursed their God, and their King. Wicked men complain of God, that he is a hard Master, that he loves to inflict cruel and severe judgements upon his creatures: the horror of conscience makes them to expostulate with the most high as if he were unrighteous; they complain of him, that his decrees are partial, that his mercy is defective, that his justice is severe; but they never humbly complain to God under the disquiet and trouble of the soul. A notable text to Characterize a wicked man, in Job 15. 24, 25, 26. verses, Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid, they shall 1prevail against him as a King ready to battle. For he stretcheth cut his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. He runneth upon him, even upon his neck, upon the thick bosses of his buckler. It is spoken by Eliphaz, in a warlike phrase. When a man is angry, he will run at another man to do him a mischief; a wicked man in the horror and trouble of his soul will arm himself against God, even in complaints; this is the temper of wicked men, even in horror of conscience to think ill of God, to complain of him, but not to him: but a godly man, when God lets him be troubled for sin, his temper is to complain to God,