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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.
A third Rule, live in the meditation of pardoning mercy; it is true, wicked men make pardoning grace a means of presumption; but pardoning grace rightly applied, is the most genuine way for the breaking and troubling of the soul; Beloved, lay thy self in the arms of Christ, on the bed of his love, and that's the way to break thy flinty and stony heart. ⟨p. 215⟩A child of God cannot choose but to bathe his sins in the tears of contrition, that knoweth his sins to be bathed in Christ's blood in a way of satisfaction. I now come to give you some consolatory Rules, which are four: Is there comfort to a man that doth find his heart hard, that seldom or never findeth his soul disquieted under the sense of sin?
A third Rule, live in the meditation of pardoning mercy; it is true, wicked men make pardoning grace a means of presumption; but pardoning grace rightly applied, is the most genuine way for the breaking and troubling of the soul; Beloved, lay thy self in the arms of Christ, on the bed of his love, and that's the way to break thy flinty and stony heart. ⟨p. 215⟩A child of God cannot choose but to bathe his sins in the tears of contrition, that knoweth his sins to be bathed in Christ's blood in a way of satisfaction. I now come to give you some consolatory Rules, which are four: Is there comfort to a man that doth find his heart hard, that seldome or never findeth his soul disquieted under the sense of sin?
First, Be comforted, if what thou wantest in godly sorrow for sin, thou makest up in holy care and watchfulness against sin; if a child of God hath not a weeping eye for sin, yet if he have a watchful heart against sin, that is pleasing to God; if tears be not in thine eye for sin, yet if weapons of defence be in thine hand to contest and conflict with corruptions, that is most pleasing to God. The Captain of our salvation, Jesus Christ, he had rather see a fighting weapon against sin, then a weeping eye for sin; that is one comfort.