A49242:567
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.
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.
Fifthly, Thou mayst be sure that it is an evangelical trouble of mind, when thou art troubled for sin as well because it is against a good God, as well as because it is against a just God; a wicked man may be troubled for sin against a just God, because justice will be avenged on sin, and on the sinner; but now a godly man saith, God loads me with mercies; thou that canst grieve and be troubled for sin, this is evangelical; they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the latter days, Hos. 3. 5. I may apply that Fable that Plutarch hath in his Morals, of the Sun and the mind, contending which should make a Traveller put off his Cloak: O Beloved, storms and blustering tempests of God's wrath may make a wicked man leave sin, and be troubled for sin; but when the Son of God's love shall melt the heart, and sweetly insinuate into thy soul, and that make thee unclothe thy self of the rags of sin, that is an argument of evangelical trouble.