The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help…

For the Physician by curing of the most desperate at the first, doth not only get himself a Name, but begets Encouragement in the minds of other diseased folk to come to him for help. Hence you read of our Lord, that after, through his tender mercy, he had Cured many of great Diseases, his Fame was spread abroad: They brought unto him all sick People that were taken with divers Diseases and Torments, and those which were poss•sse• with Devils, and those which were Lunatic and those that had the Palsy, and he healed them; and there followed him great multitudes of People from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan, Mat. 4.24, 25.

For the Physi•ian by curing of the most desperate at the first, doth not only get himself a Name, but begets Encouragement in the minds of other diseased folk to come to him for help. Hence you read of our Lord, that after, through his tender mercy, he had Cured many of great Diseases, his Fame was spread abroad: They brought unto him all sick People that were taken with divers Diseases and Torments, and those which were poss•sse• with Devils, and those which were Lunatick and those that had the Palsie, and he healed them; and there followed him great multitudes of People from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan, Mat. 4.24, 25.

See here, He first by working, gets himself a Fame, a Name, and Renown, ⟨p. 38⟩and now men take Encouragement, and bring from all quarters their Diseased to him, being helped by what they had heard, to believe that their Diseased should be healed.