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…

Name: The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
Author: Christopher Love

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.

Christopher Love 1618–1651London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653

[16], 191, [1], 184, [11] p. : ill. (port.) · 92k words · Wing L3176 · ESTC R211061

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Sermon 1: SERMON, I.

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:363p. 142–143§4

I now come to give you something by way of direction: Hast thou been a man that God hath left to thine own hearts ⟨p. 143⟩lust? thou hast not only sin, but the iniquity of sin, sin aggravated, then,

:364p. 143§1

First take this rule, Labour in the residue of thy days to be as eminent in grace, as thou hast been formerly notorious in sin: hath thy lusts been strong? labour now, that thy affections may be strong God-ward and heaven-ward: has thy sin been clothed with many heinous circumstances to make it great? let thy graces be clothed with many holy circumstances to make them great: though this cannot make a compensation to the most High (for nothing thou hast or doest can recompense God for the wrong sin doth him) yet is this something by way of a holy revenge on thy self; the more thou hast been notorious in evil, thou shouldst labour now to be more eminent in good.

First take this rule, Labour in the residue of thy dayes to be as eminent in grace, as thou hast been formerly notorious in sin: hath thy lusts been strong? labour now, that thy affections may be strong God-ward and heaven-ward: has thy sin been cloathed with many hainous circumstances to make it great? let thy graces be cloathed with many holy circumstances to make them great: though this cannot make a compensation to the most High (for nothing thou hast or doest can recompense God for the wrong sin doth him) yet is this something by way of a holy revenge on thy self; the more thou hast been notorious in evill, thou shouldst labour now to be more eminent in good.

:365p. 143–144§2

Secondly, Hast thou fallen into any gross and aggravated guilt? follow this Rule, Labour that the greater thy sin and thy unkindness hath been to God, thou express now the greater love to Jesus Christ for pardoning mercy: O labour thou that hast great sins pardoned, that thou mayest have great love issued out to Jesus Christ; Christ did not simply ask Peter, Simon Peter lovest thou me? but goeth higher, Peter doest thou love me more then these? there was this reason why Christ

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