Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

5. THE Work it self is declared, (1.) By it's Nature. (2.) In it's Causes. (3.) From it's Effects.

1. IN the Nature of it, it is the healing of Backslidings; I will heal their Backslidings; the Sin whereby they are fallen off from God, unto whom they are now exhorted to Return. These bring the Souls of Men into a diseased Estate, and danger of Death: The Cure hereof, is the Work of God alone. Hence he gives himself that Title, I am the Lord that healeth thee, Exod. 15. 26. And because of the poisonous Nature of Sin, and the danger it brings ⟨p. 74⟩of Eternal Death unto the Souls of Men, the Removal of it, or a Recovery from it, is often called by the name of Healing, Psal. 6. 2. Isai. 57. 18, 19. Hos. 6. 1. Here it includeth two things; First, the pardon of Sin past, and then a supply of Grace to make us fruitful in Obedience. I will be as the Dew to Israel, as we shall see. This is God's Healing of Backslidings.

1. IN the Nature of it, it is the healing of Backslidings; I will heal their Backslidings; the Sin whereby they are fallen off from God, unto whom they are now exhorted to Return. These bring the Souls of Men into a diseased Estate, and danger of Death: The Cure hereof, is the Work of God alone. Hence he gives himself that Title, I am the Lord that healeth thee, Exod. 15. 26. And because of the poysonous Nature of Sin, and the danger it brings ⟨p. 74⟩of Eternal Death unto the Souls of Men, the Removal of it, or a Recovery from it, is often called by the name of Healing,