Mens sana in corpore sano. A discourse upon recovery from sickness. Directing how natural…

III. That man who does not account, the Forgiveness of Sin, a Blessedness to be Desired, has Madness in his heart while he Lives, and is going to the Dead. Wonderfully Besotted is that Soul, that Subscribes ⟨p. 18⟩not •nto those Thoughts, in Psal. 32.1, 2. Blessed is he, whose Transgression is Forgiven, whose Sin is covered; Blessed is the man, unto whom the Lord Imputeth not Iniquity. God will one day awaken thy Soul, O man, out of that Besotment!

Tis to be Admired, how any man, can well enjoy any thing he ha's, till Sin be Forgiven unto him. Ah! what woeful narcotics are there in the Pillow, of that man, that can go to Sleep to night unpardoned! Our Good old Mr. Whiting, the Venerable Pastor of Lin, over heard certain Persons very Merry in a Room of an Inn, by which he had occasion to pass: As he passed by, he just looked in, to let fall that […], with much Gravity, upon them, […], If your Sins be all Pardoned, you may very well, be cheerful! And God Thunder-Struck the Souls of some in the Company, with the pungent Remembrance of that passage, all their Days. Truly, Sirs, If your Sins be all Pardoned, You may then, Eat your Bread with Joy, & Drink your Wine with a cheerful Heart; for God Accepteth your Works. But if not, O miserable Soul, then the Almighty God is Angry with thee ⟨p. 19⟩Every Day, and thy Heart may break, (if it were not harder than an […], it would break!) under the Terror of that Thought, God counts me for His Enemy! A Great Person in the English Nation, being assured, by the Physicians that his Death was unavoidably Near unto him, Cried out with Hellish Anguish, Oh! that I might Live, though it were but the life of a T••d; for better that than H•ll! Sinner, if thou Die Unpardoned, the life of a Toad will be a better life than thine, throughout Eternal Ages!