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…

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, 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 heavinesse under the guilt of sin: A Pot when it boyls over the fire, and boyls too fast, cast a handful of Salt, and it will allay the boyling of the Pot; when thy soul boyls, and is restlesse in disquiet for trouble of sin, and boyling 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 Christan's peace; they are called God's proclamations of pardon to a poor creature; they are the character wherein he may read all his Priviledges: O study them well.