A49242:541
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.
Here are four discoveries laid down when a man's disquiet and trouble of soul for sin is immoderate and excessive.
First, When a man is so disquieted under the guilt of sin, that he is not only unable to receive comfort, but he is unwilling to receive that comfort that belongs to him, v. 2. my soul refused to be comforted. This was his sin, I prove it by the 10. v. And I said, This is mine infirmity. It was an infirmity in Asaph, when he was under trouble of mind, for to refuse comfort: God intends trouble for sin to be an exercise of grace, not to obliterate the evidence of our graces; when trouble for sin proves an eclipse of grace, not a spur to grace, it is excessive.
Secondly, When the amiable and glorious attributes of God are represented unto the soul of a godly man, under a formidable and a dreadful notion; this is laid down in v. 3. I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. The thoughts of God should comfort a soul in trouble of mind; but when a man in trouble of mind, shall make the Attributes of God to trouble him, then it is excessive; Job 23. 15. Therefore am I troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Secondly, When the amiable and glorious attributes of God are represented unto the soul of a godly man, under a formidable and a dreadful notion; this is laid down in v. 3. I remembred God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. The thoughts of God should comfort a soul in trouble of mind; but when a man in trouble of mind, shall make the Attributes of God to trouble him, then it is excessive; Job 23. 15. Therefore am I troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am affraid of him.