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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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3. Thou wilt lessen thine own repentance and humiliation; for what man will labour after great humiliation for small transgressions? therefore there is a world of wrong done to thine own soul, when God hath pardoned great transgressions, if thou shouldst extenuate and lessen the greatness of thy evils.
3. Thou wilt lessen thine owne repentance and humiliation; for what man will labour after great humiliation for small transgressions? therefore there is a world of wrong done to thine own soul, when God hath pardoned great transgressions, if thou shouldst extenuate and lessen the greatnesse of thy evils.
Sixthly, Content not your selves with slight and superficial repentance for falling into great and gross evils, be not like Lewis the eleventh King of France, when he did an evil against his Conscience, he pulled off his hat and took his Crucifix and cried God mercy for what he had done; so many men, if they can but cry God mercy in ordinary and general terms, they think they have made a Compensation to Divine Justice. And thus I have done with the second branch of the use in these six particulars.
Sixthly, Content not your selves with slight and superficiall repentance for falling into great and grosse evils, bee not like Lewis the eleventh King of France, when he did an evill against his Conscience, he pulled off his hat and took his Crucifixe and cryed God mercy for what he had done; so many men, if they can but cry God mercy in ordinary and generall tearms, they think they have made a Compensation to Divine Justice. And thus I have done with the second branch of the use in these six particulars.
Use 3 The third and the last branch shall be by way of Consolation,