A49242:547
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
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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.
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 injoyns no duty belonging to our general calling, as Christians, that should clash with, or justle out our particular callings, as Men: and herein the Divels 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.
Sixthly, When trouble and disquiet of soul for sin is prejudicial to the health of our bodies; I hate robbery for a burnt offering; so that's not God's sacrifice, that is prejudicial to bodily health; God hates us not for a burnt offering; this was an infirmity in Heman, one troubled deeply in mind, Psal. 88. 3. My soul is full of troubles; and my life draweth nigh to the grave. Heman's trouble of soul was so great, that it did weaken his body, and bring him to nothing but skin and bones: So you read of trouble, Psal. 31. 9, 10. Have mercy upon me, Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes is consumed, with grief, &c. For my life is spent, with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth because of any iniquity. Here was a mixture of weakness in this, though it was for sin; yet, to consume the bones, and to spend the strength, God doth not require that.