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First, it gives cause of a gentle reprehension to many of Gods servants, that keepe on their gar∣ments of sorrow too long, and still feed on
The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners. First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.
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- The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners. First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.
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- Whately, William, 1583-1639.
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- London :: Printed by G. M[iller] for George Edwards, and are to be sold at his house in Greene-Arbour, at the signe of the Angell,
- 1637.
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wormewood and gall, almost refusing to bee comforted, then, when comfort is due to them. Though they have sear∣ched their hearts and confessed their sinnes, and brought their hearts to a full purpose of amendment; yet they faile in that they doe not take some measure of comfort to themselves, and doe not partake of the consolations of God which he offers to them in his holy Word.
There are some that make too much haste to comfort themselves, and
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some that doe not make hast enough. The Com∣moner, and the greater fault, is, to put away sor∣rowes too soone: yet that of putting away comfort too farre and too long from the soule is a fault also, and must not be denied where it is. Many of Gods peo∣ple I say are excessive in their mourning, even for their sinnes, in that when they have true right to comfort, and God doth speake peace unto them, yet they doe not give rest and peace unto their owne soules,
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but surfit upon worme∣wood and bitternesse, and thrust comfort a∣way from themselves through unbeliefe. Som∣times men mourne too much and too long for crosses (that point doth not now come to bee handled) and sometimes they mourne as those that have no hope, in re∣gard of sinnes, and that is the fault we have now to declare and to reproove.