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…

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 Psalm 51. for the sin of adultery with Bathsheba, David doth not only bewail the unclean act, but he bewails also the unclean nature.

Thirdly, Thou mayst be satisfied, if thou art as much disquieted in soul in the sight and apprehension of the power of sin, as of the guilt of sin; I am troubled not only that sin is so dangerous, but also that sin is so strong within me.