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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.
I need not spend much time in the proof, yet something must be said of it: there are two branches,
1. It is of great advantage. 2. It is of great difficulty.
1. That it is a work of great advantage. It is convenient to say something of this, because I take it to be a common mistake of many ⟨p. 112⟩persons, they are apt to think; that sick-bed applications are in a manner useless and ineffectual: it may be a discouragement which the Devil proposeth to Ministers or others to make them neglect this work, or be formal in it, especially when the persons are ignorant or profane: the Devil may suggest the invalidity of a sick-bed repentance, the customariness and hypocrisy of sick-bed desires, &c. now to obviate such suggestions, consider these things.
1. That it is a work of great advantage. It is convenient to say something of this, because I take it to be a common mistake of many ⟨p. 112⟩persons, they are apt to think; that sick-bed applications are in a manner useless and ineffectual: it may be a discouragement which the Devil proposeth to Ministers or others to make them neglect this work, or be formal in it, especially when the persons are ignorant or profane: the Devil may suggest the invalidity of a sick-bed repentance, the customariness and hypocrisie of sick-bed desires, &c. now to obviate such suggestions, consider these things.