N00768:43
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 Reason of this, is plain▪ 'Tis, Because none but the Sensible Sick, will come unto the Lord Jesus Christ for Healing. It is not fit that the Lord Jesus Christ should Heal the Souls of men, till they look unto Him, that they may be Healed: No, 'tis inconsistent with the Glory of God, and the Method of Grace. Indeed, the Healing of Souls, does most properly and suitably Commence in this point. When a Soul is made Sensible ⟨p. 21⟩of its being Sick, it begins to be Healed of the Sickness; The very Sense is part of the Cure. Until a man be Sensible of his own Sinfulness and wretchedness, 'tis very certain, he will never come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Healing of it. Unto the Insensible our Lord will still have cause to say, Joh. 5.40. Ye will not come to me, that ye may have Life. No, while a man is •nsensible of the Sick state that Sin has brought him into, he will despise the Great Saviour, and neglect the Great Salvation; he will trample under foot the Son of God, and count His Blood a Thing of no Account: he will prefer Sin and […] all the Heavenly Happiness, that the Lord Jesus Christ has to bestow upon him. And it is […] That a Sinner should be Healed of his Diseases while he continues under the Reign of such Malignity; Yea, it is as Unpossible as it is Unreasonable; for this Malignity is it self, as they use to say of the Plague, The Queen of all Diseases.
The Reason of this, is plain▪ 'Tis, Because none but the Sensible Sick, will come unto the Lord Jesus Christ for Healing. It is not fit that the Lord Jesus Christ should Heal the Souls of men, till they look unto Him, that they may be Healed: No, 'tis inconsistent with the Glory of God, and the Method of Grace. Indeed, the Healing of Souls, does most properly and suitably Commence in this point. When a Soul is made Sensible ⟨p. 21⟩of its being Sick, it begins to be Healed of the Sickness; The very Sense is part of the Cure. Until a man be Sensible of his own Sinfulness and wretchedness, 'tis very certain, he will never come unto the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Healing of it. Unto the Insensible our Lord will still have cause to say,