A49242:558
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.
Seventhly, It proceeds from a groundless and a presumptuous persuasion that wicked men have of pardoning grace; tush, saith a wicked man, if I have hopes of Heaven when I die, what need sin trouble me; I hope it shall not damn my soul; and therefore it shall not disquiet me, I will not lay sin to my heart; for God will not lay sin to my charge. I shall go to Heaven when I die; what need I break my peace while I live? This was the great reason of those that were no more troubled for sin: Deut. 29. 19. And it come to pass when he heard the words of this curse, that he blessed himself in his heart, and said, I shall have peace though I walk in the imaginations of my heart. God doth not bless them, but they will bless themselves; they presume of mercy, and they presume of Heaven, they will presume of blessing; why, this makes them that they are not troubled for adding drunkenness to thirst; they can add sin to sin, but not add sorrow to sorrow for sin.
Seventhly, It proceeds from a groundless and a presumptuous perswasion that wicked men have of pardoning grace; tush, saith a wicked man, if I have hopes of Heaven when I die, what need sin trouble me; I hope it shall not damn my soul; and therefore it shall not disquiet me, I will not lay sin to my heart; for God will not lay sin to my charge. I shall go to Heaven when I die; what need I break my peace while I live? This was the great reason of those that were no more troubled for sin: Deut. 29. 19. And it come to pass when he heard the words of this curse, that he blessed himself in his heart, and said, I shall have peace though I walk in the imaginations of my heart. God doth not bless them, but they will bless themselves; they presume of mercy, and they presume of Heaven, they will presume of blessing; why, this makes them that they are not troubled for adding drunkenness to thirst; they can add sin to sin, but not add sorrow to sorrow for sin.
The eight Cause is this, Men contenting themselves under a daubing and a flattering Ministry: Men that under pretence of preaching free-grace, the love of God, and the merits of Christ, all their Sermons are comfortable strains, when indeed they are but the making the Way to Heaven wider then God makes it; This reason is given by God himself,