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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.
APPLICATION.
I. Repair, O Sick Souls, Repair unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, for the Healing of your Sickness, your Sinful Sickness. We are a Congregation of Sick Souls: Where am I Preaching, Sirs, but in an Hospital? If there be any One Soul in the Congregation, so Whole, as to need no Physician, Be gone, O Soul, be gone: Why dost thou tarry here? Heaven is the only place for such a Soul. But indeed, if any Soul be so Conceited of it self, that it need no Physician, there is rather good to say, That there is no […] likely to miss of Heaven at the […] and there is no Soul under more ⟨p. 27⟩desperate Symptoms of a Sickness, that will End in Hell, and bring to Hell, at the last!
I. Repair, O Sick Souls, Repair unto the Lord JESUS CHRIST, for the Healing of your Sickness, your Sinful Sickness. We are a Congregation of Sick Souls: Where am I Preaching, Sirs, but in an Hospital? If there be any One Soul in the Congregation, so Whole, as to need no Physician, Be gone, O Soul, be gone: Why dost thou tarry here? Heaven is the only place for such a Soul. But indeed, if any Soul be so Conceited of it self, that it need no Physician, there is rather good to say, That there is no 〈…〉 likely to miss of Heaven at the 〈…〉 and there is no Soul under more ⟨p. 27⟩desperate Symptomes of a Sickness, that will End in Hell, and bring to Hell, at the last!