A65285:2397
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Secondly, A Person may be in some Sense guilty of his own Death, by neglecting the Use of Means: if sick, and use no Physic. If he hath received a Wound, and will not apply Balsam, he hastens his own Death. God appointed Hezekiah to lay a Lump of Figs to the Boil, Isa. 38.21. If he had not used the Lump of Figs, he had been the cause of his own Death.
Secondly, A Person may be in some Sence guilty of his own Death, by neglecting the Use of Means: if sick, and use no Physick. If hehath received a Wound, and will not apply Balsom, he hastens his own Death. God appointed Hezekiah to lay a Lump of Figs to the Boil, Isa. 38.21. If he had not used the Lump of Figs, he had been the cause of his own Death.
Thirdly, By Immoderate Grief, 2 Cor. 7.10. The Sorrow of the World worketh Death. When God takes away a dear Relation, and one is swallowed up with Sorrow. How many weep themselves into their Graves! Queen Mary grieved so excessively for the loss of Calais, that it broke her Heart.
Thirdly, By Immoderate Grief, 2 Cor. 7.10. The Sorrow of the World worketh Death. When God takes away a dear Relation, and one is swallowed up with Sorrow. How many weep themselves into their Graves! Queen Mary grieved so excessively for the loss of Calice, that it broke her Heart.
Fourthly, By Intemperance, Excess in Diet. Surfeiting shortens Life. Plures periere crapula quam gladio: Many dig their Grave with their Teeth. Too much Oil chokes the Lamp: The Cup kills more than the Canon. Excessive drinking causeth untimely Death.