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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Sermon 6: How Ministers or Christian Friends may, and ought to apply themselves to Sick Persons,…
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.
1. A supposition, ver. 23. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, &c. 2. A position, ver. 24. Then he is gracious to him, &c. the words may be called the sick mans cordial, or his restorative, wherein you may observe: 1. The patient expressed in the word him. 2. The disease, his danger, and misery—he is going down to the pit. 3. The Physician who is described: 1. Ab officio, by his Office, a messenger. 2. Ab opere, by his work, an interpreter. 3. A praestantid, a rare man, one of a thousand.—multis è millibus unus. 4. The Physic, to show unto a man his uprightness. 5. The cure, then he is gracious, &c. where are considerable:
1. A supposition, ver. 23. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, &c. 2. A position, ver. 24. Then he is gracious to him, &c. the words may be called the sick mans cordial, or his restorative, wherein you may observe: 1. The patient expressed in the word him. 2. The disease, his danger, and misery—he is going down to the pit. 3. The Physitian who is described: 1. Ab officio, by his Office, a messenger. 2. Ab opere, by his work, an interpreter. 3. A praestantid, a rare man, one of a thousand.—multis è millibus unus. 4. The Physick, to shew unto a man his uprightness. 5. The cure, then he is gracious, &c. where are considerable:
1. The quality of it, the kind of the cure, deliver him from going down to the pit, i. e. from mortal sickness.
2. The spring of it, Gods grace, he is gracious.