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Title:  The dejected soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and cautions in severall cases. In divers sermons, by Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury. To which is added, I. The ministry of the angels to the heirs of salvation. II. Gods omnipresence. III. The sinners legacy to their posterity.
Author: Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.
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thou be cast down excessively for sin? It is true, O my soul, if thou hadst been to die, and to have purchased thy own re∣demption, to have been thy own Saviour, and if the waight and the extreme burden of thy sins had been to be laid upon thy own shoulders, and if thou hadst been to have made per∣fect satisfaction to divine justice in thy own person, if thou hadst been obliged to have kept the whole Law perfectly and if thou hadst been for to make a full recompence for the wrong and evil that thou hast done, and thou wast to offer the fruit of thy body for the sin of thy soul; yet this would not doe, nor procure the least satifaction, nor make the least compensation and recompence for the evil thou hast done. Now if this were thy case to be thy own mediator, and thy own intercessor, and to have thy blood spilt for thy sins, if this was thy case, thou hadst cause to be excessively cast down for sin. A finite creature can never make satisfaction to infinite ju∣stice. Could I give a thousand Rams, ten thousand Rivers of Oyl, yet I could not make an attonement, or give a sufficient ransome for my redemption. But it is far otherwise, the quite contrary is thy portion, not thy case. Here O my soul, is thy case which may abundantly administer thee comfort; the blood, the pre∣cious blood of Jesus Christ is laid down for sin, that thou maist not excessively be cast down for sin, and thou maist draw abundance of comfort & satisfaction from this consideration.First, Consider with thy self, O my soul, Jesus Christ did not shed his precious blood for himself, but for me: he did like a good shepherd lay down his life for his sheep, Joh. 10. 15.Secondly, Consider that God the Father did accept of the laying down of his life in this behalf, Joh. 10, 17. The Father loves him, because he laid down his life.Thirdly, Consider and reason with thy self, O my soul, What though there are great arguments to greaten sin, and to heighten sin; so there are many great arguments to greaten the mercy of God in Christ. Are thy sins great? the mercies of God are greater. Doe thy sins deserve great punishments, even eternal death? the death of Jesus Christ, and the merit of Christ are of infinite value to merit life, even eternal life. Are thy sins the sins of a man? I but the satis∣factions 0