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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.
Justification is one thing, in the Healing of a Soul. When the Good Lord Pardoned the people, 'tis said, 2 Chron. 30.20. The Lord Healed the people. When Sin is Forgiven, 'tis Covered by a Divine Plaster, and so the Soul is Healed. When the Prophet says, Lest they Convert and be Healed, the Evangelist renders it, Lest they should be Converted, & their Sins should be Forgiven them. We read, Isa. 33.24. The Inhabitant shall not say I am Sick, the people shall be Forgiven their Iniquity. Truly, a Soul says, I am no more so sick, as once I was, when a man is Forgiven his Iniquity.
Iustification is one thing, in the Healing of a Soul. When the Good Lord Pardoned the people, 'tis said, 2 Chron. 30.20. The Lord Healed the people. When Sin is Forgiven, 'tis Covered by a Divine Plaister, and so the Soul is Healed. When the Prophet sayes, Lest they Convert and be Healed, the Evangelist renders it, Lest they should be Converted, & their Sins should be Forgiven them. We read, Isa. 33.24. The Inhabitant shall not say I am Sick, the people shall be Forgiven their Iniquity. Truly, a Soul sayes, I am no more so sick, as once I was, when a man is Forgiven his Iniquity.
Sanctification is another thing in the Healing of the Soul. A Soul is made Healthy when 'tis made Holy. In Sanctifying a Soul, the Lord fulfils what is written, Jer. 30.17. I will Restore Health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy Wounds. The Soul is Viciated by Sin. To Extinguish, and Extirpate the Vices of the Soul, is to Heal the Soul. A Sanctified Soul is an Healed one, because the Vic•• of it are taken away. By Holiness the lost Image of God is Renewed in the Soul; and all the powers of the Soul are brought into a better Temper, and Order.