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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 comfort is this, That though a good man may not for some time be troubled for sin, yet at that time and in that case there is a great difference between him and a wicked man; he is not troubled, but he would be troubled; a wicked man is not disquieted, and he would never be disquieted; a godly man doth not mourn, but he would mourn, and would love that Minister that should pierce his heart; a wicked man cannot endure him; there is a great difference between the one and the other: A good man dares not stifle the checks of Conscience; a wicked man when Conscience begins to trouble him, he doth what he can to still the cries of Conscience; when Conscience doth arrest a wicked man for debt they run not unto God, they make conscience drunk with sensual pleasures and vain delights, that so they may run away from Consciences arrest; but godly men dare not do thus, but they cry to conscience, excuse me when I do well, and accuse me when I do ill; this is the behaviour of a godly man.
A third comfort is this, That though a good man may not for some time be troubled for sin, yet at that time and in that case there is a great difference between him and a wicked man; he is not troubled, but he would be troubled; a wicked man is not disquieted, and he would never be disquieted; a godly man doth not mourn, but he would mourn, and would love that Minister that should pierce his heart; a wicked man cannot endure him; there is a great difference between the one and the other: A good man dares not stitle the checks of Conscience; a wicked man when Conscience begins to trouble him, he doth what he can to still the crys of Conscience; when Conscience doth arrest a wicked man for debt they run not unto God, they make conscience drunk with sensual pleasures and vain delights, that so they may run away from Consciences arrest; but godly men dare not do thus, but they cry to conscience, excuse me when I do well, and accuse me when I do ill; this is the behaviour of a godly man.
Lastly, Take this for comfort, though thou hast not so much trouble for sin as thou dost desire, yet thou hast so much as God doth accept; this is a true rule in Divinity, that the desire of any grace is the grace it self; for to believe, is faith; and true desire to repent, is repentance; and true desire to mourn for sin, is a mourning for sin; if thou dost desire a troubled heart, that is a holy trouble; this is a great mercy, that in Scripture account the desire of any grace is the grace it self: It is worthy your observation you read of