A49242:585
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, Thou must not disclose thy particular sin on every slight trouble, unless thy trouble be very urgent and vexatious in the soul: Beloved, you do not go to the Chirurgeon for every aching finger, and for every slight wound; it is not for every slight trouble of mind to disclose thy particular sins; confession to another man should never be, but when all means thou hast used thy self nothing can comfort thee, when thy spirit is troubled with great bitterness; only in a case of urgent necessity must you open your selves to another man.
Secondly, Thou must not disclose thy particular sin on every slight trouble, unlesse thy trouble be very urgent and vexatious in the soul: Beloved, you do not go to the Chirurgeon for every aking finger, and for every slight wound; it is not for every slight trouble of mind to disclose thy particular sins; consession to another man should never be, but when all means thou hast used thy self nothing can comfort thee, when thy spirit is troubled with great bitternesse; only in a case of urgent necessity must you open your selves to another man.
Thirdly, Following this rule, take heed when thou revealest thy mind to any, do not deal doubly with that man. Men will come sometimes to a Minister, and tell him they are troubled in mind, but they will not tell what it is that puts a sting into conscience, but will open some other thing that is slight and trivial, but not open the real thing that doth trouble them: the Lapwing will not cry near her nest, ⟨p. 207⟩but afar off: Many men carry themselves so that you shall not find out their nests; their beloved sins they will not reveal and disclose them.
Thirdly, Following this rule, take heed when thou revealst thy mind to any, do not deal doubly with that man. Men will come sometimes to a Minister, and tell him they are troubled in mind, but they will not tell what it is that puts a sting into conscience, but will open some other thing that is slight and trivial, but not open the real thing that doth trouble them: the Lapwing will not cry neer her nest,