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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.
Thirdly, Wicked men under trouble use this sinful shift, to go to carnal pleasure and sensuality to allay disquiet of mind; Saul called for Instruments of Music, 1 Sam. 16. 14. to allay the troubles of his spirit, as the Israelites that offered their children to Moloch drowned the cry of their Children with a noise of Drums and Tabrets; so wicked men do with their Consciences. God's people dare not do this; they know that sensual pleasures can no more pacify a disquieted Conscience then a silken stocking can cure a gouty Leg; they dare not wallow and swim in sinful pleasures, but they go to the promise, and in that they take their delight.
Thirdly, Wicked men under trouble use this sinful shift, to go to carnal pleasure and sensuality to allay disquiet of mind; Saul called for Instruments of Musique, 1 Sam. 16. 14. to allay the troubles of his spirit, as the Israelites that offered their children to Moloch drowned the cry of their Children with a noise of Drums and Tabrets; so wicked men doe with their Consciences. God's people dare not doe this; they know that sensual pleasures can no more pacifie a disquieted Conscience then a silken stocking can cure a gowty Leg; they dare not wallow and swim in sinful pleasures, but they go to the promise, and in that they take their delight.
Fourthly wicked men they go to bad company, to merry company to see if that can make them forget their troubles; thus Herod did, Mark 6. 18. For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brothers wife.
Immediately after John had troubled his conscience for having his brother Philip's wife, then to allay this trouble of John's reproof; Herod then calls for his merry company, his Nobles and his Soldiers about him, that so he might forget