A49242:584
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.
First, You are not to reveal that sin for which your conscience troubles you to every man, but to a man that is experienced: Judas, when he was troubled in conscience ⟨p. 206⟩for betraying Jesus Christ, it is said that he went to the high Priest, and to the Pharisees, and confessed to them, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood; why, they did not compassionate him: So shouldst thou go to some men and complain to them, they would jeer at thee, and send thee away with a flout and a scoff; go to those that are more compassionate, most judicious, most acquainted with the spiritual state of a Christian. Beloved, in our bodily infirmities, when a man is sick, he doth not tell every neighbour he is sick, and reveal his infirmity to all, but to a Doctor; A man in trouble of mind, it is not for him to go to every one, to men that wants bowels and experience, and wants wisdom to speak a word in due season to a wearied heart; Many men are like a company of Deer, when one Deer is shot, all the rest of the head of Deer runs away from the wounded Deer, and leaves it to shift for its life; when a man is wounded in conscience, the arrows of the Almighty sticking in him, they think it is a melancholy wound in him, and they are shy of him, they run away from him; O go to those that can show most bowels of compassion towards you.
First, You are not to reveal that sin for which your conscience troubles you to every man, but to a man that is experienced: Judas, when he was troubled in conscience ⟨p. 206⟩for betraying Jesus Christ, it is said that he went to the high Priest, and to the Pharisees, and confest to them, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood; why, they did not compassionate him: So shouldst thou go to some men and complain to them, they would jeer at thee, and send thee away with a flout and a scoff; go to those that are more compassionate, most judicious, most acquainted with the spiritual state of a Christian. Beloved, in our bodily infirmities, when a man is sick, he doth not tell every neighbour he is sick, and reveal his infirmity to all, but to a Doctor; A man in trouble of mind, it is not for him to go to every one, to men that wants bowels and experience, and wants wisedom to speak a word in due season to a wearied heart; Many men are like a company of Deer, when one Deer is shot, all the rest of the head of Deer runs away from the wounded Deer, and leaves it to shift for its life; when a man is wounded in conscience, the arrows of the Almighty sticking in him, they think it is a melancholy wound in him, and they are shie of him, they run away from him; O go to those that can shew most bowels of compassion towards you.