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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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For answer, First in the general, know your case is dangerous, but yet it is not desperate.
For answer, First in the generall, know your case is dangerous, but yet it is not desperate.
Answ. 1 First, It is possible the conscience of a good man may be so disordered through the impetuousness of passion and lust, that he may think he doth well when he doth ill, therefore his conscience never smites him. As it was with Paul, Act. 26.9. ⟨p. 99⟩I verily thought with my self, that I ought to do many things contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth. Paul sinned, and he had his doubts before conversion, even as after conversion: yet this sin troubled him not, he thought he was bound to do many things, &c. so may thy conscience be so far disordered, as to think thou doest well when thou doest ill, Jonah 4.9. And God said to Jonah, doest thou well to be angry for the Gourd? and he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. Could Jonah's conscience smite him for his anger when he said he did well? Lord how far will a godly man go towards the suburbs of hell if God shall let him alone! I do well, saith Jonah, to be angry, even unto death.
Answ. 1 First, It is possible the conscience of a good man may be so disordered through the impetuousnesse of passion and lust, that he may think he doth well when he doth ill, therefore his conscience never smites him. As it was with Paul, Act. 26.9. ⟨p. 99⟩I verily thought with my self, that I ought to do many things contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth. Paul sinned, and he had his doubts before conversion, even as after conversion: yet this sin troubled him not, he thought he was bound to do many things, &c. so may thy conscience be so farre disordered, as to think thou doest well when thou doest ill,