A49242:578
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.
A third Rule is this, Take heed thou dost not go about to allay the disquiet of thy soul for sin, by sin, that is a third Rule; to run to vain pleasures, and to sensual delights to stop and quell the voice of conscience, what is this but to go to the Devil for a plaster to heal the wounds of thy soul: Beloved, these men that go to allay trouble of mind ⟨p. 204⟩for sin, by sin, they go the way to make conscience recoil and turn upon them with more fierceness, and more savage cruelty: It is just as a man that is a thirst, he will drink a draught of poison to quench his thirst; O! when thou art scorched with God's wrath, and to allay this, dost drink a draught of sin? what dost thou but drink so much poison? Many men when they are under trouble of mind, they will go to sin for a shelter, and there a Serpent puts them to more pain.
A third Rule is this, Take heed thou dost not go about to allay the disquiet of thy soul for sin, by sin, that is a third Rule; to run to vain pleasures, and to sensual delights to stop and quell the voice of conscience, what is this but to go to the Divel for a plaister to heal the wounds of thy soul: Beloved, these men that go to allay trouble of mind ⟨p. 204⟩for sin, by sin, they go the way to make conscience recoyl and turn upon them with more fiercenesse, and more savage cruelty: It is just as a man that is a thirst, he will drink a draught of poyson to quench his thirst; O! when thou art scorcht with God's wrath, and to allay this, dost drink a draught of sin? what dost thou but drink so much poyson? Many men when they are under trouble of mind, they will go to sin for a shelter, and there a Serpent puts them to more pain.
A fourth Rule is this, Fix your thoughts on the evidences of your graces, when your hearts are overmuch disquieted in the sight of sin; as trouble of conscience in the sight of sin, will keep a man that he shall not be proud in the sight of his grace; so the evidence or sight of grace, will keep a man that he shall not be excessively troubled in the sight of sin.