A25470:512
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.
4. The same methods are not to be used to all sick persons: you might as well give the same pill to all diseased persons, whereas that which would cure one, will kill another; you may as well make one suit for all bodies: discreet Physicians diversify their applications, according to the difference of the Patients disposition and condition; so here, and there are many differences to be eyed here.
4. The same methods are not to be used to all sick persons: you might as well give the same pill to all diseased persons, whereas that which would cure one, will kill another; you may as well make one suit for all bodies: discreet Physicians diversifie their applications, according to the difference of the Patients disposition and condition; so here, and there are many differences to be eyed here.
1. Difference of tempers whether tender, or rough & stubborn, as you read it is the husbandmans discretion that the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is the cart-wheel turned upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod, Isa. 28.27. so it must be the discretion of a Minister, to have respect to the different tempers of men, in his applications to them: it is said of Christ he taught the Disciples as they were able to bear.
1. Difference of tempers whether tender, or rough & stubborn, as you read it is the husbandmans discretion that the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is the cart-wheel turned upon the cummine, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummine with a rod, Isa. 28.27. so it must be the discretion of a Minister, to have respect to the different tempers of men, in his applications to them: it is said of Christ he taught the Disciples as they were able to bear.