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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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Char. 3 A third Character of a person whose sin is forgiven is this, to have unfeigned sorrow and remorse of heart for the commission of sin: sins forgiven are steeped in blood, and soaked in tears: sorrow before pardon, is servile and legal; none can sorrow in an Evangelical manner, but he who is brought into a pardoned estate. Indeed there may be a forced, and a constrained sorrow which may come from the eyes of unpardoned men: there is this difference between the one and the other. Tears in an unpardoned sinner come from him like water in a Still; but Tears in a pardoned sinner come from him like water from the clouds: water will drop from the Still, but it is forced by keeping close the Still, and by the heat of the fire; the fire of hell may make a wicked man aghast: but sorrow for sin in a pardoned man, is like water from the clouds that is not forced but doth naturally drop down.
Char. 3 A third Character of a person whose sin is forgiven is this, to have unfained sorrow and remorse of heart for the commission of sin: sins forgiven are steept in bloud, and soakt in tears: sorrow before pardon, is servile and legall; none can sorrow in an Evangelicall manner, but he who is brought into a pardoned estate. Indeed there may be a forc't, and a constrained sorrow which may come from the eyes of unpardoned men: there is this difference between the one and the other. Tears in an unpardoned sinner come from him like water in a Still; but Tears in a pardoned sinner come from him like water from the clouds: water will drop from the Still, but it is forc't by keeping close the Still, and by the heat of the fire; the fire of hell may make a wicked man agast: but sorrow for sin in a pardoned man, is like water from the clouds that is not forced but doth naturally drop down.
Char. 4 A fourth Character, He in whom sin is pardoned, is a man in whom is no guile, Psal. 32. some do take guile in a particular sense, others extend it more largely, as a comprehensive word equivalent to sincerity; he is a man in whose spirit is no guile, an upright man. Thus much for the use of Trial.