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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.
A second cause or reason is this, God's people are troubled for sin, because God's people seeing themselves that they are more in sinning against God then they are in obeying God; therefore sin troubles them and disquiets them more: grace is as the gleaning of the Vintage, and sin is as the full harvest; Job 15. 16. How much more abominable & filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water. God's people see their sins like Mountains, and their graces like Mole-hills; my lusts burn like a flame, but my graces like a glowing coal; my sins at full tide, but my graces at a low ebb; that makes God's people to be so much troubled for sin: disquiet of soul is more incident to the godly as the moth is ordinarily in the finest Cloth, and the worm in the Rose sooner then the Briar.
A second cause or reason is this, God's people are troubled for sin, because God's people seeing themselves that they are more in sinning against God then they are in obeying God; therefore sin troubles them and disquiets them more: grace is as the gleaning of the Vintage, and sin is as the full harvest; Job 15. 16. How much more abominable & filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water. God's people see their sins like Mountains, and their graces like Mole-hils; my lusts burn like a flame, but my graces like a glowing coal; my sins at full tide, but my graces at a low ebb; that makes God's people to be so much troubled for sin: disquiet of soul is more incident to the godly as the moth is ordinarily in the finest Cloth, and the worm in the Rose sooner then the Briar.
A third Reason is this, Because sin is more visible and manifest to the soul then their graces are; therefore they are more troubled for sin. You read in Galatians 5. 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, ••riance, emulations, wrath, strife, &c. But when the Apostle gives you the list of the graces of the Spirit, he doth not say that the fruits of the Spirit are manifest, but the fruits of the flesh are manifest: to show as one observes well, that a man may more easily discern and have a sight of his sin, then a godly man can have in the sight of his grace.