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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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Secondly, Take this for a difference, though the conscience of a pardoned man may not for a time smite him for sin committed, yet he doth not take that course to stifle the checks, and to still the voice of conscience as reprobates do: wicked men take sensual delights to still the checks and voice of conscience, so Saul did 1 Sam. 16.14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. Vers. 17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. When an evil spirit troubled him, that was his conscience, Saul called for music to still the voice of conscience.
Secondly, Take this for a difference, though the conscience of a pardoned man may not for a time smite him for sin committed, yet he doth not take that course to stifle the checks, and to still the voice of conscience as reprobates doe: wicked men take sensuall delights to still the checks and voice of conscience, so Saul did 1 Sam. 16.14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evill spirit from the Lord troubled him. Vers. 17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. When an evill spirit troubled him, that was his conscience, Saul called for musick to still the voice of conscience.
Thirdly, Good men care not for jocund ⟨p. 106⟩company, Mar. 16.18. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brothers wife. Vers. 21. And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee, &c. Good men dare not avoid a reproving, a searching ministry: as Felix did,