Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

I will give you, now, two instances, that seem to imply the truth of this observation.

In the Nineth of Matthew, at the Second Verse, you read of a man, that was sick of the Palsy; and he was coming to Jesus Christ, being born upon a bed by his Friends: He also was coming himself, and that upon another account than any of his friends was aware of; even for the pardon of sins, and the Salvation of his Soul. Now so soon as ever he was come into the presence of Christ, Christ bids him ⟨p. 196⟩be of good cheer; it seems then, his heart was fainting, but what was the cause of this fainting, but the guilt, and burden of his sins; therefore he proceeds, Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee.

In the Nineth of Matthew, at the Second Verse, you read of a man, that was sick of the Palsie; and he was coming to Jesus Christ, being born upon a bed by his Friends: He also was coming himself, and that upon another account than any of his friends was aware of; even for the pardon of sins, and the Salvation of his Soul. Now so soon as ever he was come into the presence of Christ, Christ bids him ⟨p. 196⟩be of good chear; it seems then, his heart was fainting, but what was the cause of this fainting, but the guilt, and burden of his sins; therefore he proceeds, Be of good chear, thy sins are forgiven thee.

I say, Christ saw him sinking in his mind, about how it would go with his most Noble part; and therefore, first, he applies himself to him, upon that account. For though his friends, had Faith enough as to the cure of the Body, yet he himself had little enough as to the Cure of his Soul: Therefore, Christ takes him up as a man falling down, saying, Son, be of good Cheer, thy Sins are forgiven thee.