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The riches of mercy In two treatisesThe riches of mercie In two treatises
The riches of mercy In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinity. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his own hand to prevent imperfect copies.The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies.
London: printed by John for Francis Eglesfeild, 1638London: printed by Iohn for Francis Eglesfeild, 1638
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.
2Then again is sin the cause of sickness, it should teach us patience, I held my tongue because thou Lord diddest it, Shall not a man be patient in that he hath procured by his own evil and sin?
2Then againe is sin the cause of sicknes, it should teach us patience, I held my tongue because thou Lord diddest it, Shall not a man be patient in that he hath procured by his owne evill and sin?
- 2To be patient.
3And search our selves, for usually▪ it is for some particular sin, which conscience will tell a man of, and sometimes the kind of the punishment will tell a man, for sins of the body, God punisheth in the body he pays men home, in their own coin, what measure a man measureth to others shall be measured ⟨p. 35⟩to him again. If a man have been cruel to others, God will stir up those that shall be so to him, therefore we should labour to part with our particular transgressions and iniquities. It is a general truth for all ills whatsoever as well as this of sickness.2 Therefore we should first of all go to God by confession of sin. It is a preposterous course that the atheistical careless world takes, where the Physician ends,3 there the divine begins▪ when they know not what to do. If diseases come from sin then make use of the divine first to certify ⟨p. 36⟩