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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.
Now the Use shall be to put you upon trial how you may be satisfied in conscience, that that disquiet of soul that is in you under the guilt of sin, is an evangelical and a gracious trouble for sin, and not such a trouble that doth arise from a natural conscience in wicked men; and to satisfy you herein, I shall name six particulars.
Now the Use shall be to put you upon trial how you may be satisfied in conscience, that that disquiet of soul that is in you under the guilt of sin, is an evangelical and a gracious trouble for sin, and not such a trouble that doth arise from a natural conscience in wicked men; and to satisfie you herein, I shall name six particulars.
First, Dost thou find this within thee, that thy trouble of soul is more for the evil of the fact thou hast done, then for the danger thou mayst incur? My meaning is this, when thou art troubled more for the sin, then thou art troubled for the penalty of that sin thou hast incurred by the commission of it; when thou art troubled for sin more because it robs God of his glory, then because it will keep thee from glory; this is an evangelical grace.
First, Dost thou find this within thee, that thy trouble of soul is more for the evil of the fact thou hast done, then for the danger thou mayst incur? My meaning is this, when thou art troubled more for the sin, then thou art troubled for the penalty of that sin thou hast incurr'd by the commission of it; when thou art troubled for sin more because it robs God of his glory, then because it will keep thee from glory; this is an evangelical grace.
Secondly, When thou art more troubled for the sin of nature, then for the sins that break out in thy life; when the sin of nature doth disquiet thee, as well as the sins of thy practise: We never find in all the Scripture, that a wicked man hath any remorse of spirit at all for the sin of nature; thou that canst say, sins of nature trouble thee as well as sins of practise, this is an argument of evangelical trouble of soul for sin. David discovered grace herein, when he made that penitential