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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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Further it is clear by induction of instances in Scripture, that a pardoned man ⟨p. 175⟩may fall into gross sins, oftentimes into the same sin: some instances, one is of Joseph, it was a gross sin for Joseph to swear an heath enish Oath, by the life of Pharaoh, Gen. 42.15.15. Hereby ye shall be proved, by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. Yet the Jews were so well instructed, and had such prohibitions against swearing, one should think that they should not be guilty of so gross an evil; yet Joseph being in Pharaohs court among heathens, he swore twice by the life of Pharaoh. And thus you read of Jehoshaphat, he fell twice into the same sin, he made a league with Ahaliah King of Israel, he loved them that were enemies to God, 2 Chron. 20.35, 36, 37. And after this did Jehoshaphat King of Judah join himself with Ahaziah King of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-Geber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodanah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thy self with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works: and the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish. Twice ⟨p. 176⟩he ran into the same sin. And then you have it in the case of Solomon, he fell into Idolatry, and the Text saith, that he sinned against God after God appeared twice to him. 1 King. 11.9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice. He fell to Idolatry after God appeared twice to him; so that it notes Solomon fell oftentimes into the same sin. Thus you read of Sampson, that Divines call a very compound of vices, Judg. 16. If there were no more spoken of Sampson in the New Testament, then in the old, it were questionable whether he was a good man or no: but what read you of Sampson? You read of him first of all that he married a heathenish woman, which was against Gods command. Nay he fell to the same sin when the Philistines killed her, then he married a whore, chap. 16.1.