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…

A fourth discovery in this Psalm is, When disquiet of soul under the guilt of sin doth either discourage a man, or unfit a man for religious duties, then they are excessive and inordinate; this is laid down in the 4. v. I am so troubled, I cannot speak. He was so overwhelmed with fears and troubles in his spirit, that it did either discourage him from praying, ⟨p. 194⟩or unfit him for the use of prayer; now to make it appear, put them together, v. 10. I said this is ruin infirmity: It follows, that all those troubles that be so inordinate, to make him refuse comfort, and troubled at the thoughts of God, and to make him likewise that he could not sleep, and he could not pray, all this was his infirmity: These are the four discoveries taken from that one Psalm.

A fourth discovery in this Psalm is, When disquiet of soul under the guilt of sin doth either discourage a man, or unfit a man for religious duties, then they are excessive and inordinate; this is laid down in the 4. v. I am so troubled, I cannot speak. He was so overwhelmed with fears and troubles in his spirit, that it did either discourage him from praying, ⟨p. 194⟩or unfit him for the use of prayer; now to make it appear, put them together, v. 10. I said this is ruine infirmity: It follows, that all those troubles that be so inordinate, to make him refuse comfort, and troubled at the thoughts of God, and to make him likewise that he could not sleep, and he could not pray, all this was his infirmity: These are the four discoveries taken from that one Psalm.

Fifthly, It is then inordinate, when a man is so disquieted under the sight of sin, that he hath no mind to follow his particular calling where in God hath set him in, in the world, that he can take no comfort in Wife or Children, estate or comforts; when a man shall be so perplexed, that he cannot follow his trade; then it is sinful, there is his reason for it, because God enjoins no duty belonging to our general calling, as Christians, that should clash with, or jostle out our particular callings, as Men: and herein the Devils policy lies, that if he in trouble of mind can keep a man out of his calling, he hath the better way to work upon an idle man.