A44973:182
An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…
An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate and the continuation thereof / by a lover of truth and peace.
S.l. : s.n., 1669
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.
Answ. The ordinary method of Cure, is first to search the Wound to the bottom, and then to apply healing Remedies; first to pour in Wine, and then Oil. Our Physicians use first to purge or vomit their Patients, and then to give Cordials: So spiritual Physicians, till the Patient be truly and rightly sensible of his sins, they send him to the Law, for by the Law comes the knowledge of sin, the horrid nature and demerit of it; but then for Comfort, they send him to ⟨p. 77⟩the Gospel, to this sovereign Balsam; yea, they pour on them the Oil of Gladness, upon whom they perceive has been the Spirit of Heaviness: They say not, Physician heal thy self; but rather send them to the Great Physician, by whose stripes we and they are healed: We dare not trust in our own Righteousness, but in the Lord our Righteousness.
Answ. The ordinary method of Cure, is first to search the Wound to the bottom, and then to apply healing Remedies; first to pour in Wine, and then Oyl. Our Physitians use first to purge or vomit their Patients, and then to give Cordials: So spiritual Physitians, till the Patient be truly and rightly sensible of his sins, they send him to the Law, for by the Law comes the knowledge of sin, the horrid nature and demerit of it; but then for Comfort, they send him to ⟨p. 77⟩the Gospel, to this soveraign Balsom; yea, they pour on them the Oyl of Gladness, upon whom they perceive has been the Spirit of Heaviness: They say not, Physitian heal thy self; but rather send them to the Great Physitian, by whose stripes we and they are healed: We dare not trust in our own Righteousness, but in the Lord our Righteousness.
Quest. Do not Nonconformists, as they desire liberty from the Impositions of Men in the Worship of God, so preach up liberty from the Commandments of God in the Course of their Lives? Or at least do they not lift up their Voice like a Trumpet, when they publish the Gospel; but only speak in a small and still Voice, when they treat of Obedience to the moral Law?