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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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Circu. 2 Secondly, If you consider the dignity and the quality of Davids person that did commit this sin, He was a King; Now the greater the person is that sins, the sin is the greater.
Third Circumstance to aggravate his sin, it was that he did commit the sin after God had given him manifold mercies, so Nathan telleth him, 2 Sam. 12.8.
Fourthly, To consider this, that David had a wife of his own; nay many wives of his own; that did greaten Davids sin, and so Nathan told him; for saith Nathan, There was a poor man who had but one Lamb, and a rich man that had many Lambs, which killed ⟨p. 116⟩the poor mans lamb; his meaning was, that David should commit Adultery with the wife of that man that had but one wife, when he had many of his own.
Fourthly, To consider this, that David had a wife of his own; nay many wives of his own; that did greaten Davids sin, and so Nathan told him; for saith Nathan, There was a poor man who had but one Lambe, and a rich man that had many Lambs, which killed ⟨p. 116⟩the poor mans lamb; his meaning was, that David should commit Adultery with the wife of that man that had but one wife, when he had many of his own.