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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It may be now thou art in health, thou dost not now confess thy uncleanness, and thy drunkenness, and thy pride, and thy profaneness; but what wilt thou do ⟨p. 14⟩when God brings thee on a death-bed? when God hedges in thy ways with thorns, the conscience will reflect on thee, and suggest guilt to thee, and draw out confession from thee, it is a fit season; when God doth bring a man under any outward affliction, then he is in good plight to confess sin. It is worth your notice in the 38. 1Psalm, it was made when David lay on his sick-bed, as he thought his death-bed: you shall find it is a complaint of a very strong disease David lay under, in the 3. vers. Vers. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. §5Vers. 5. My wounds stink and are corrupt, §7because of my foolishness. Vers. 7. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. Here he was lying on a sick bed; and Interpreters say that he made this Psalm when he was sick. It is worth your notice of the title that David gives this Psalm, A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance. David when he was on his death-bed as he thought, he he said it shall be a Psalm of remembrance, to bring sin to remembrance, to confess to God my uncleanness! with Bathsheba, to bring to my remembrance the evils of my life; it was a good plight David was in when he lay on a sick bed, he would make this title of the Psalm, A Psalm to call to ⟨p. 15⟩remembrance: men are in a fit plight to make confession to God when they lye under any bodily sickness; call to remembrance thy pride, call to thy remembrance thy passion, call to remembrance thy vain dalliance, what ever thy sin be, it may be I may not hit of it: but when ever God brings thee under affliction, thou art then in a fit plight for to confess fin to God, and call to remembrance thy sins. As it was with Jonah, chap. 1. Jer. 2. vers. 24