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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.
The ninth General cause, They have a fullness of outward prosperity and blessing in the world; it may be referred to soul trouble, as well as to bodily trouble; that prosperity in the world, doth mightily keep off a man from having his soul trouble him under the guilt of sin; Hos. 12. 8. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me put substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me, that were sin. They were a wicked people, and yet their prosperity in an evil way did harden their hearts in a way of sin. The instance of Pharaoh, there was nothing in the world did more harden his heart, then his prosperity; God lifting him up to be a King, did harden his heart; when men are glutted with prosperity, that they have not an open ear to the shrieks of conscience; 2 Chron. 33. 10. And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people; but they would not hearken. In prosperity he would not hearken to the checks of conscience, till God laid him in fetters, then he hearkened.
The ninth General cause, They have a fulnesse of outward prosperity and blessing in the world; it may be refer'd to soul trouble, as well as to bodily trouble; that prosperity in the world, doth mightily keep off a man from having his soul trouble him under the guilt of sin; Hos. 12. 8. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me put substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me, that were sin. They were a wicked people, and yet their prosperity in an evil way did harden their hearts in a way of sin. The instance of Pharaoh, there was nothing in the world did more harden his heart, then his prosperity; God lifting him up to be a King, did harden his heart; when men are glutted with prosperity, that they have not an open ear to the screaks of conscience; 2 Chron. 33. 10. And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people; but they would not hearken. In prosperity he would not hearken to the checks of conscience, till God laid him in fetters, then he hearkened.