A49242:579
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 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.
Fifthly, Ponder in your meditations the comfortable promises of the Gospel, rather then the threats of the Law; if I were to speak to a secure sinner, I would give him a quite contrary rule, that he should rather ponder on the threats of the Law, then the promises of the Gospel; but to a sinner greatly pressed under the weight of God's wrath, he must take this word rather to ponder on, the promising part of the word, then on the threatening part of the word, Prov. 25. 12. As an ear-ring of gold, and as an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear. The good word of a 1promise, makes glad a poor soul that stoops in heaviness under the guilt of sin: A Pot when it boils over the fire, and boils too fast, cast a handful of Salt, and it will allay the boiling of the Pot; when thy soul boils, and is restless in disquiet for trouble of sin, and boiling too fast, cast in a handful of Salt, a handful of the Promises of the Gospel, this will allay the excessive trouble and disquiet of thy soul. The Promises are called by one, the Instruments of a Christian's peace; they are called God's proclamations of pardon to a poor creature; they are the character wherein he may read all his Privileges: O study them well.
Fifthly, Ponder in your meditations the comfortable promises of the Gospel, rather then the threats of the Law; if I were to speak to a secure sinner, I would give him a quite contrary rule, that he should rather ponder on the threats of the Law, then the promises of the Gospel; but to a sinner greatly prest under the weight of God's wrath, he must take this word rather to ponder on, the promising part of the word, then on the threatning part of the word,