Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

As a Physician, which gives his Patient bitter pills, not to make him sick, but that so he may restore him to health: or as a Chirurgeon, that lays sharp drawing plasters, and cuts the flesh, not with an intent to hurt, but to cure the wound.

As a Physician, which gives his Patient bitter pills, not to make him sick, but that so he may restore him to health: or as a Chirurgion, that layes sharp drawing plaisters, and cuts the flesh, not with an intent to hurt, but to cure the wound.

This is the Scripture's method, it concludes all under sin, [Greek or Hebrew], hath shut up all. The Text saith not [Greek or Hebrew], but [Greek or Hebrew], not all men in the masculine gender, but all things in the neuter. And it is all one as if the Apostle had said, The Scripture arrests not only thy person but thine actions: The Scripture lays hold not only of the man, but of every thing in him. This word (all) is a forcible word, and empties us clean of every thing, that we may truly confess with the Apostle, In me, that is, in my flesh dwells no good thing, Rom. 7.18. It's impossible a man should by nature think thus of himself, that there is no good in him; or that he should by asking others find himself half so bad as the Law makes him to be, by shutting up a man under sin, and all things in a man, yea all good whatsoever is in thee.

This is the Scriptutes method, it concludes all under sin, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, hath shut up all. The Text saith not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not all men in the masculine gender, but all things in the neuter. And it is all one as if the Apostle had said, The Scripture arrests not onely thy person but thine actions: The Scripture layes hold not onely of the man, but of every thing in him. This word (all) is a forcible word, and empties us clean of every thing, that we may truiy confesse with the Apostle, In me, that is, in my flesh dwells no good thing,