A49242:515
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.
51. 4. Against thee only have I sinned, and ⟨p. 176⟩done this evil in thy sight, that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. As if he should have said, I will blame my self, and I will judge my self now my conscience flies in my face, but I will clear God, and will not judge God; this is the temper of a gracious man under trouble of mind for sin, he complains to God but never of him.
51. 4. Against thee onely have I sinned, and ⟨p. 176⟩done this evil in thy sight, that thou maiest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. As if he should have said, I will blame my self, and I will judge my self now my conscience flies in my face, but I will clear God, and will not judge God; this is the temper of a gracious man under trouble of mind for sin, he complains to God but never of him.
The ninth Difference is this, Wicked men in disquiet of soul for sin, they are more apt to complain to men of their trouble than to God; Thus Judas when had had betrayed Jesus Christ his Master, it is said, that Judas came to the high Priest, and the Scribes and Pharisees, and said unto them, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But we never read that Judas went to the Lord and said, I have betrayed thy Son, I have sinned in betraying the innocent blood. Thus Haman was troubled when he could not get Mordecai's knee, why, He told his wife and friends what had befell him, but never went to God. Thus Saul when he was troubled, and vexed in spirit, It is said, Saul told his servants an evil spirit troubled him; but we never read that Saul went to God to allay the trouble and disquiet of his heart; this is the Character of a wicked man, sin dogs him, conscience flies in his face; thus to men he can complain but never goeth to God, to complain to him; my soul is troubled, my conscience is galled, he can never go to God pouring out his complaints. But godly men do more complain to God than to men, it may be in some emergent cases to satisfy doubts; but God shall hear their moans and complaints in private. The Psalmist doth express this notably,