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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
This is all one, as if a Chirurgeon should say to a Patient 1that hath a swelled arm, I have prepared a knife, and cannot he launch and cut his arm himself? as this would be a folly in them, so it is in Ministers to say so, for it is as dear cutting off spiritual hands and legs, as it is to cut corporal; therefore it is not enough to bring good matter, but they must press it on them, not in a word or two, or by intimation only, but to lay it on them with as full a hand, and as seriously as they can, and as particularly as they can. Men are so mannerly this way, that they will be ready to lay admonitions on other mens consciences, rather then on their own, this thing will they say belongs to such a one, but not unto me, Heb. 13. 22. suffer the word of exhortation a while. He speaks as a Physician there to his patient, suffer me to see the wound and to put a tent into it; which shows that there is a backwardness in our selves, and therefore if Ministers will do any good, they must apply the word home.
This is all one, as if a Chyrurgion should say to a Patient 1that hath a swelled arm, I have prepared a knife, and cannot he launch and cut his arm himself? as this would be a folly in them, so it is in Ministers to say so, for it is as dear cutting off spiritual hands and legs, as it is to cut corporal; therefore it is not enough to bring good matter, but they must press it on them, not in a word or two, or by intimation onely, but to lay it on them with as full a hand, and as seriously as they can, and as perticularly as they can. Men are so mannerly this way, that they will be ready to lay admonitions on other mens consciences, rather then on their own, this thing will they say belongs to such a one, but not unto me, Heb. 13. 22. suffer the word of exhortation a while. He speaks as a Physitian there to his patient, suffer me to see the wound and to put a tent into it; which shewes that there is a backwardness in our selves, and therefore if Ministers will do any good, they must apply the word home.
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