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The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
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4. Pray with him, and for him. Sick persons are often full of pain and grief, and are more then usually assaulted by Satan, whereby they are the less able to pray for themselves, and have the more need of the prayers of others. Its observable that though the Holy Ghost commandeth men in other afflictions to pray themselves; Is any afflicted? let him Pray; yet when he mentioneth sickness, he saith not; Is any sick? let him Pray; But, Is any sick? let him send for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him; Jam. 5. 13, 14. i. e. A sick man is not so fit to pray himself, he wanteth others to pray for him, and with him. The soul sympathizeth in the sufferings of the body, and the inner man is seldom at rest, if the outward man be distempered and disquieted. The mind is unfitted for duties, by the diseases of the flesh. Paul calls his bodily weaknesses a temptation, Gal. 4. 13, 14. Afflictions on the flesh, are temptations to the spirit, and sickness is a piercing Arrow in Satan's Quiver of temptations.
4. Pray with him, and for him. Sick persons are often full of pain and grief, and are more then usually assaulted by Satan, whereby they are the less able to pray for themselves, and have the more need of the prayers of others. Its observable that though the Holy Ghost commandeth men in other afflictions to pray themselves; Is any afflicted? let him Pray; yet when he mentioneth sickness, he saith not; Is any sick? let him Pray; But, Is any sick? let him send for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him; Jam. 5. 13, 14. i. e. A sick man is not so fit to pray himself, he wanteth others to pray for him, and with him. The soul sympathizeth in the sufferings of the body, and the inner man is seldom at rest, if the outward man be distempered and disquieted. The mind is unfitted for duties, by the diseases of the flesh. Paul calls his bodily weaknesses a temptation, Gal. 4. 13, 14. Afflictions on the flesh, are temptations to the spirit, and sickness is a piercing Arrow in Satans Quiver of temptations.