N00768:20
The great physician, inviting them that are sensible of their internal maladies, to repair…
The great physician, inviting them that are sensible of their internal maladies, to repair unto him for his heavenly remedies. A brief discourse, meditated by one under bodily illness, and profitable for all that are under spiritual. : [Two lines in Latin from Ambrose]
printed by Timothy Green, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, They are Many Diseases. As 'tis said, Jam, 3.2. In many things we all offend: thus it may be said, In many things we are all Diseased. Every Lust is a several Disease in the Soul: And there is many a Lust, wherewith a Sinner is distempered. It is a deplorable thing to be Troubled with many Diseases together, a Complication of Diseases: to have it said of One, as it was of that Great Reformer, That one man has Diseases enough perhaps for an Hospital. But every sinner has many Diseases. He has the Palsy of an unsteady Mind; He has the Fever of Unchastity ▪ He has the Dropsy of Covetousness; He has the Erysipelas of A•ger; He has the Cancer of Envy ▪ He has the Tympany of ⟨p. 10⟩Pride; He has the Apoplexy of Slothfulness: And what not?
First, They are Many Diseases. As 'tis said, Jam, 3.2. In many things we all offend: thus it may be said, In many things we are all Diseased. Every Lust is a several Disease in the Soul: And there is many a Lust, wherewith a Sinner is distempered. It is a deplorable thing to be Troubled with many Diseases together, a Complication of Diseases: to have it said of One, as it was of that Great Reformer, That one man has Diseases enough perhaps for an Hospital. But every sinner has many Diseases. He has the Palsey of an unsteady Mind; He has the Feavour of Unchastity ▪ He has the Dropsy of Covetousness; He has the Erisypelas of A•ger; He has the Cancer of Envy ▪ He has the Tympany of ⟨p. 10⟩Pride; He has the Apoplexy of Slothfulness: And what not?