The great physician, inviting them that are sensible of their internal maladies, to repair…

THE Self-Righteous but the most Unrighteous Pharisees, conceived no little Malice and Scandal against our Lord Jesus Christ, upon His Admitting ⟨p. 4⟩of […] into His company. They Cavilled our Lord, as if He had been Himself the Chief of Sinners, because He allowed those, whom the more Superstitious and Ceremonious Jews, distinguished by the Name of Sinners, to have Communion with Him. Our Text contains the Vindication of our Lord; The Whole have no need of a Physician, but they that are Sick. The plain Sense, and Scope, and Sum of the Text is This; A Physician must be among the Sick: it is his Calling and his Duty to be so. The Messiah is the Physician of Souls, and all Sinners are the Sick. You Pharisees, that are insensible of your Sinfulness, and Sickliness, can't expect, that I should Converse with none but you. The Publicans feel and own themselves to be Sinful, & you must not wonder, if then I visit them.

THE Self-Righteous but the most Ʋnrighteous Pharisees, conceived no little Malice and Scandal against our Lord Jesus Christ, upon His Admitting ⟨p. 4⟩of 〈…〉 into His company. They Cavilled our Lord, as if He had been Himself the Chief of Sinners, because He allow'd those, whom the more Superstitious and Ceremonious Jews, distinguished by the Name of Sinners, to have Communion with Him. Our Text contains the Vindication of our Lord; The Whole have no need of a Physician, but they that are Sick. The plain Sense, and Scope, and Sum of the Text is This; A Physician must be among the Sick: it is his Calling and his Duty to be so. The Messiah is the Physician of Souls, and all Sinners are the Sick. You Pharisees, that are insensible of your Sinfulness, and Sickliness, can't expect, that I should Converse with none but you. The Publicans feel and own themselves to be Sinful, & you must not wonder, if then I visit them.

The Doctrine of God our Saviour, which we are now to insist upon, is This; ⟨p. 5⟩