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…

I Now come to give you some other Rules, and they are to those who complain, and say, The Lord help me, I am so far from being over disquieted, that I do not find my heart disquieted at all; I do not find my soul so much as troubled under the guilt of many evils that I am guilty of; touching this I shall proceed to give you rules directory and consolatory.

First, How a Child of God that doth not find his soul ⟨p. 213⟩sensibly touched, and evangelically disquieted under the sense of sin committed, how that soul may come to have his soul evangelically troubled under the guilt of sin.

First, How a Child of God that doth not find his soul ⟨p. 213⟩sensibly touch'd, and evangelically disquieted under the sense of sin committed, how that soul may come to have his soul evangelically troubled under the guilt of sin.

First, Rest not satisfied with a general and a confused fight of sin, but labour to single out the chiefest of thy corruptions, to have a particular and distinct view thereof; this is the course that God's people have taken, Acts 2. 37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts, and said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles, Men and Brethren, what shall we do? Peter doth not tell them that they were sinners in the general; but of all sins he doth single out one, Ye have crucified the Lord of glory; and when they heard that, they were pricked at the heart: They singled out that sin to have their hearts brought to brokenness, and to contrition. When Christ would bring the Woman of Samaria to remorse and trouble for sin, Christ did single