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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.
The Miracles wrought by our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was Conversant among us, were for the most part, Healing Miracles. 'Tis said of Him, Mat. 4.23. He Cured all manner of Diseases. In that Quality of the Miracles wrought by our Lord, there was this Instruction taught unto us; That the Lord Jesus Christ, is the Physician from whom our Souls may expect the Healing of all their Maladies.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is Appointed and Anointed by God, for the Mediator between God and man: ⟨p. 13⟩And it is as our Mediator, that our Lord Jesus Christ is our Physician. In well-ordered Common-wealths, every man may not presume to take upon himself, the Character of a Physician: 'tis a Character for none but such, as after a due Trial, are Licensed for it. Our Lord Jesus Christ comes to us, as a Physician, under the License and Broad-S••l of the Eternal GOD. Hence our Lord could say, Luk. 4.18. He hath sent me, to Heal the broken-hearted. There is no Malady of our Souls, but our Lord Jesus Christ, as our Mediator, ha's now a Medicine for that Malady. That Glorious Priest, has a Cure for our Guiltiness; That Glorious Prophet, has a Cure for our Ignorance: That Glorious King, has a Cure for our Pollution, and our Slavery.
But let us Enquire a little more particularly.