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…

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 ¹out one sin of all, and told her, Thou art an Harlot; and the Scripture gives you this hint, that the singling out that one sin, made her see all other sins, for saith the woman, Lo! Behold, the Man that hath told me of all that ever I have done; and yet Christ told her only of her Adultery. Do thou thus What is that Delilah that thou playest withal in thy bosom? single out that sin, and that is the way to have a distinct view of all the evil; general and confused apprehensions of sin, doth but bring in a general humiliation; it hath been the undoing of a great many souls, to rest satisfied with general apprehensions of their guiltiness, they have lived and died without any saving remorse on their Consciences. He that writes of Bellarmine, saith this of him, That when he came to die, (saith he) such was the innocency of that man, that he could not tell one sin in him that he was to make confession for, it did not arise from the innocency of the man, but it arised from an indistinct sight and observation of his ways. Beloved, this makes a man hard-hearted when he comes to die, that he hath not evangelical remorse in him, because he hath but a confused and a general view of sin. You read of Ahimaz, that was running in post haste to bring news what was done; David asked him, What news? saith Ahimaz,