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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.
, and so I shall finish this doctrine about the disquietings of the soul; and that is a use of caution, to persuade you to take heed you do not run into false mistakes touching soul-disquiet for sin; the Devil may paint that which is not grace, and which is not trouble of Conscience, and disquiet of mind for sin like it; which is my caution to persuade you that you would not be mistaken in this matter.
, and so I shall finish this doctrine about the disquietings of the soul; and that is a use of caution, to perswade you to take heed you do not run into false mistakes touching soul-disquiet for sin; the Divel may paint that which is not grace, and which is not trouble of Conscience, and disquiet of mind for sin like it; which is my caution to perswade you that you would not be mistaken in this matter.
Five Mistakes I shall give you Cautions to take heed of:1
- 1Cautions.
First, Take heed you do not mistake a natural Melancholy, and take that to be a godly sorrow and trouble of mind for sin; many people whose tempers are sad, heavy, and dumpish, they apprehend Melancholy to be a godly sorrow; there is a great difference between natural Melancholy, and between spiritual trouble. First, natural Melancholy hath many apprehensions in the fancy, in the imaginations; but spiritual trouble ariseth from the Conscience, upon the sense of God's wrath, and the frowns of the Almighty, and the greatness of sin, and the evil thereof. Secondly, Melancholy is cured by Physic, Galen is a proper help for a melancholy man; but all the Physic in the world cannot allay the disquiet of a godly man's soul. Thirdly, Melancholy maketh a man sad, but he cannot tell for what; but a man under spiritual trouble saith thus, It is this sin galls my Conscience, and such a failing grieves my soul; which a Melancholy man cannot do, he cannot tell that it is such a corruption I am guilty of. Fourthly, Melancholy is discerned by his natural complexion, a heavy eye, a grizzly look; but spiritual trouble on the Conscience may be in the man that is of a merry, pleasant, amiable Countenance; therefore Divines observe of David, the Scripture telleth you he was a man of a ruddy complexion; the effect thereof is to be merry and pleasant; yet he did grieve and roar under disquietness of soul for sin. Again, Melancholy doth impair the health of the body; but sorrow for sin doth not so. Again, A Melancholy man cannot delight in God nor in duty; whereas a man under trouble of mind, though he be troubled for sin, yet he can rejoice in