A49242:566
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.
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.
Fourthly, The disquiet for sin is evangelical, when the measure and degree of thy trouble of mind for sin is subservient to and promoting of the end of trouble of mind; the end of trouble of mind, I told you, was to embitter sin, and endear Christ; when thou hast so much of the measure and degree of trouble of mind, as to embitter sin to thee, and to endear Jesus Christ to thee, this is the true evangelical humiliation that the Gospel calls for.
Fourthly, The disquiet for sin is evangelical, when the measure and degree of thy trouble of mind for sin is subservient to and promoting of the end of trouble of mind; the end of trouble of mind, I told you, was to imbitter sin, and indeer Christ; when thou hast so much of the measure and degree of trouble of mind, as to imbitter sin to thee, and to indeer Jesus Christ to thee, this is the true evangelical humiliation that the Gospel calls for.