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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49242	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.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1657 (1657)	Wing L3151; ESTC R215529	168,974	219

an impatient man may have a good wife amiable children a rich estate but if this man be apt to be impatient under one cross it makes him he can take no comfort in any thing in the World he hath What a mischievous temper is this the impatiency of one crosse shall eat out the comforts of a hundred mercies An impatient and disquieted spirited man he may fitly be compared to a Hedg-hog and some writers make the Hedg-hog an Embleme of an impatient man now the Hedg-hog they say it is of this properity that the way she hath to bring provision into her hole is to go after a windy day into an Orchard when the fruit is fallen and turns it self round like a Ball and on its bristles and prickles fills it self full of Apples and carries them to her hole but if in the carrying of them to the hole one doth but fall off she throws all the rest down So an impatient man God may load him with many mercies heavy laden with mercies yet if God doth but take away one blessing from him he throws down the comfort of all the rest of the mercies the Lord bestows on him this is the mischievous effect of those disquiets of soul under outward crosses SERMON XII Psal 42. 11. Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him The health of my Countenance and my God I Am now to finish this third cause of disquiet There are two things by way of Application The first Use shall be by way of Instruction The second by way of tryal By way of Instruction it shall be to instruct you in several Theological rules that may be laid down to allay all excessive disquiet and discontent of soul under outward afflictions of what ever kind they be whether privative or positive I shall lay down ten Rules First Rule is Live in the continual meditation of the joyes and glories of Heaven It is observable of Paul though his life was a whole course of affliction yet when he was taken up into the third Heaven but whether I was in the body I cannot tell Paul tels you he had many infirmities in his body in hunger and nakednesse in perils by Sea and Land and great troubles in the body yet when he was taken up in a vision he forgot all the infirmities sufferings and sorrows that he met withall in the body 2 Cor. 12. 1. So likewise when Peter saw the transfiguration of Christ Mat. 17. 4. Then answered Peter Lord it is good to be here and build three Tabernacles A Divine observes Peter begged no Tabernacle for himself but said it was good to be there and yet onely upon a barren Mountain where there was no meat to eat nor house to lodge in why he forgot that there was no house here nor no food here having a view of Heaven he said it was good to be here on a barren Mountain It is observed by one touching those birds of the lowest flight they are the most mournful but those Birds of the highest flight are the most noble birds the Dove mourns the Crane chatters the Raven croaks but the Eagle never makes a lamentable noise which is a bird of the highest flight Divines make this use of it that those that are low-spirited men they will croak like Ravens and mourn like Doves when they are afflicted but to be as the Eagle flying aloft in the joyes of Heaven in your meditations this will keep you from that dispondency and that mournfulness of spirit If things go ill with you in the world there is no better way under Heaven to be gotten to allay disquiet of soul under bodily afflictions then to have thy soul transported with the joyes of Heaven It was the Counsel of Jerome which he gave to an Hermit Paradisum mente deambula tamdiu in Eremo non eris take but a walk or two in Heaven and then thou wilt not think thou art in a Wildernesse could you but take a turn or two in Heaven then you would not be troubled for the afflictions here upon Earth The Apostle hath an expression in 2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory The weight of glory made the Apostle to look on heavy afflictions to be but light therefore he called them light afflictions An eternal glory made the Apostle look on long afflictions to be but short afflictions If you would not then account afflictions burdensome think what a weight there is in glory and if you would not think afflictions long why think what eternity there is in glory A Second Rule is this If you would not be inordinately disquieted for afflictions in the World Labour to get your hearts more troubled disquieted for sin when a man bleeds too much at nose or any one part of the body Physicians open a vein in another part to make a diversion of the bloud Beloved when you grieve too much for worldly crosses do as Physicians doe with the blood make a diversion make a diversion of your sorrows open the sluces of your tears for sin pour them out for sin and then you will grieve lesse for the World that is the reason men are troubled to much for afflictions because they are troubled too little for sin and corruption It is a true rule Religious fear it doth banish out a slavish fear and spiritual joy eternal joy so spiritual trouble expels worldly trouble they that are much troubled for sin are not much troubled for any thing in the World besides sin Thirdly Be sure you do not place an excessive love on any comforts in the World you do enjoy if you would keep your trouble but regular keep your love but ordinate It is observable what we read of Jacob Genesis 37. 34 35. And Jacob rent his cloaths and put sackcloth on his loynes and mourned for his son many daies And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning What was the reason that the good old man was so excessively grieved for his son Verse 3. It is said That Israel he loved Joseph more then all his brethren because he was the son of his old age Now Jacob loving Joseph more then all his children made him grieve more for Joseph then all his children if he had not loved Joseph too much when he had him he had not grieved too much for him when he thought he had lost him O Labour to keep an ordinate love to worldly comforts A man that can part with the pairing of his naile cannot part with his finger why because he looks on the naile as superfluity could you look on the World as the pairing of the naile it is but a