The author and subject of healing in the church set forth in a sermon…

Think that you hear the importunities of all the people of the Land, and all orders therein call unto you for Healing. Princes and Peers long dethroned and eclipsed in their honour and splendour. Citizens long decayed in their trade and commerce. Country-men long exhausted with heavy expenses upon narrow estates. Ministers long discouraged by swarms of dangerous and corrupt opinions, by that abundance of Atheism, Scepticism, Neutrality, Indifferency, Profaneness, Contempt of Ordinances, which the looseness of these times, like an opened sluice, or a breach in […] bank, hath let in as a deluge upon the Church of God amongst us.

Think that you hear the importunities of all the people of the Land, and all orders therein call unto you for Healing. Princes and Peers long dethroned and eclipsed in their honor and splendor. Citizens long decayed in their trade and commerce. Countrey-men long exhausted with heavy expences upon narrow estates. Ministers long discouraged by swarms of dangerous and corrupt opinions, by that abundance of Atheism, Scepticism, Neutralitie, Indifferencie, Profaneness, Contempt of Ordinances, which the looseness of these times, like an opened sluce, or a breach in 〈…〉 bank, hath let in as a deluge upon the Church of God amongst us.

Think that you hear your own families, your wives, your children, Et natos natorum, & qu• nascuntur ab illis, the generations yet unborn, ⟨p. 31⟩calling unto you to lay up Healing for them, and like the man of Macedonia to the Apostle, saying, Come and help us.¹

1. 1Acts 16. 9.