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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.
First, It proceeds partly from the malice and subtlety of 1the Devil, that those souls that he hopes to damn when they die, he will not disquiet them for sin whilst they are alive; this is hinted to you, Luke 11. 21. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. The strong man is meant the Devil; the palace, is meant the heart of a wicked man, the goods, to be at peace is meant, that the thoughts of a wicked man is at peace; and nothing troubles him, when the Devil doth possess a wicked man's heart, he labours to keep all his thoughts quiet and calm, and at peace with him: Stella, although a Popish Author, yet hath a good note, Unum est hic observandum: we are to observe this one thing here, the great cunning of the Devil, that soul that he hath a possession of, he would not have him trouble his conscience; it is his labour (saith he) ut ne ullum conscientiae stimulum patiatur; that he should not endure one prick of conscience; the Devil doth with wicked men, as the Babylonians did with the Jews in captivity, they would make them sing songs; when the Devil hath got wicked men captive, the Devil would fain have them sing songs, and be secure, and to have nothing for to trouble them all their days.
First, It proceeds partly from the malice and subtilty of 1the Divel, that those souls that he hopes to damn when they die, he will not disquiet them for sin whilst they are alive; this is hinted to you, Luke 11. 21. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. The strong man is meant the Divel; the pallace, is meant the heart of a wicked man, the goods, to be at peace is meant, that the thoughts of a wicked man is at peace; and nothing troubles him, when the Divel doth possesse a wicked man's heart, he labours to keep all his thoughts quiet and calm, and at peace with him: Steila, although a Popish Author, yet hath a good note, Unum est hic observandum: we are to observe this one thing here, the great cunning of the Divel, that soul that he hath a possession of, he would not have him trouble his conscience; it is his labour (saith he) ut ne ullum conscientiae stimulum patiatur; that he should not endure one prick of conscience; the Divel doth with wicked men, as the Babylonians did with the Jews in captivity, they would make them sing songs; when the Divel hath got wicked men captive, the Divel would fain have them sing songs, and be secure, and to have nothing for to trouble them all their days.