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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.
Secondly, Keep conscience clear, that thou do not add ⟨p. 203⟩guilt to guilt; adding guilt to guilt, is the way to add horror to horror, and terror to terror upon the conscience; guilt in the conscience doth contract dismal fear, amazement and consternation of soul; if conscience doth not shut sin out of doors, why sin will shut peace of conscience out of doors: It is a rule that Bernard gives, Conscience is to be comforted, but first it is to be purified and made clean; this rule is laid down by Eliphaz, if I mistake not, Job 11. 14. If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away; and let not wickedness dwell in thy Tabernacles. Beloved, that is the way to keep cut fear, to keep out guilt; if conscience be not a swept and a cleansed room, it will gall, disquiet and vex thy soul; to have conscience pacified, when it is not purified, is but to skin over an old sore, which before it be healed, will break out again; peace saith Bernard, in many men is worse then a spiritual conflict; such a peace for a man to have peace in his conscience, when he indulgeth guilt in his conscience; expect not trouble of conscience to be allayed, if thy conscience be not purified; Prov. 29. 6. In the 1transgression of an evil man, there is a snare; but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. By snare, Solomon there means horror of conscience, it appears by the opposition; Interpreters give this rule, that in the Proverbs of Solomon, that one opposition doth explain the other; why here the righteous shall sing and rejoice in his grace; but the wicked shall have a snare in his sin; he shall have horror and dread of conscience in the sight of sin; Prov. 15. 15. A good and a clear conscience doth keep holy day every day of his life, though he hath hardly any thing else to feed upon; guilt on the conscience, is the way to cause a resurrection of thy fears and doubts, and to bring all thy spiritual hopes to the grave.
Secondly, Keep conscience clear, that thou do not add ⟨p. 203⟩