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The sickness of this World is grown so lethargical, that his recovery is almost despaired: and therefore his Physicians, finding by infallible symptoms that his consumption is not curable, leave him to the malignancy of his disease. For the eye of his faith is blind, the ear of his attention deaf, the foot of his obedience lame, the hand of his charity numbed, and shut up with a griping covetousness. All his vital parts, whereby he should live to goodness, are in a swoon: he lies bed-rid in his security, and hath little less then given up the (Holy) Ghost. It cannot be denied, but that he lies at the mercy of God. It is therefore too late to tolle his Passing-bell, that hath no breath of obedience left in him: I might rather ring out his knell. Yet because there are many in this world, that are not of this world: many sick of the general disease of Sin, whose recovery is not hopeless, though their present state be hapless; and some, that if they knew but themselves sick, would resort to the Poole of Bethesda, ⟨image 110⟩