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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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The judgement of a man, if he be a regenerate man, tells him he had rather a ⟨p. 92⟩thousand times lose the dearest relation, then the manifestation of Gods love unto his soul; he had rather endure the greatest affliction, then to venture willingly on the least sin.
Answ. 4 Fourthly, Consider, that Gods own people have oftentimes expressed more sorrow for outward afflictions, then they have done for inward corruptions; there is great reason for it, because things of sense do more affect us, then things of faith do; lay a man upon the rack, and he shall more roar and cry then any man in the world shall do in the sense of sin, because the pain is sensitive, and it will have more sense of sorrow: it was thus with good men in Scripture. We read much of Davids sorrow, he had no rest in his bones by reason of his sin: yet mark, when David lost Absalom, O what a fit of sorrow was he in, crying out, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God I had dyed for thee, O Absalom my son, my son. We do not read of such cries, O my soul, my soul, O what shall I do for thee my soul! because the sorrow was sensitive, the loss was sensitive.
Answ. 4 Fourthly, Consider, that Gods own people have oftentimes exprest more forrow for outward afflictions, then they have done for inward corruptions; there is great reason for it, because things of sense do more affect us, then things of faith do; lay a man upon the rack, and he shall more roar and cry then any man in the world shall do in the sense of sin, because the pain is sensitive, and it will have more sense of sorrow: it was thus with good men in Scripture. We read much of Davids sorrow, he had no rest in his bones by reason of his sin: yet mark, when David lost Absalom, O what a fit of sorrow was he in, crying out, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God I had dyed for thee, O Absalom my son, my son. We do not read of such cryes, O my soul, my soul, O what shall I do for thee my soul! because the sorrow was sensitive, the losse was sensitive.