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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.
Wherefore, Let every Soul now, be found lying at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, with that Cry, Psal 41.4. Lord, be Merciful unto me, Heal my Soul, for I have Sinned against thee. And with that Cry, Psal. 116.4. The Sorrows of Death compass me— O Lord, I beseech thee, Deliver my Soul.
Wherefore, Let every Soul now, be found lying at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, with that Cry, Psal 41.4. Lord, be Merciful unto me, Heal my Soul, for I have Sinned against thee. And with that Cry, Psal. 116.4. The Sorrows of Death compass me— O Lord, I beseech thee, Deliuer my Soul.
I call to mind, the words used unto the Lord-General of Syria, labouring under a Leprosy, 2 King. 5.3. I would my Lord were with the Prophet, that is in Samaria, for he would recover him of his Leprosy. Even so would I say; I would thy Soul were applying it self unto the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour that is in the Heavens; for He would Recover thy Soul of all its Maladies.
Yea, Let us go to the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Sick Souls, that Cannot, and Will not (their Cannot, is indeed ⟨p. 28⟩a Will not!) go for themselves. We read, Mat. 9.3. Behold, They brought unto Him, a man Sick, and Jesus seeing THEIR Faith, said unto the Sick, Son be of Good Cheer. Thus, let us go to the Lord Jesus Christ, for our Sick Neighbours, and especially for our Sick Children, and other such Relatives, who may be, by Sin indisposed unto the Thing that is Good; and plead, Lord, I have such Friends that are yet Strangers to thy Fear, and that follow these and those Evil Courses; Oh, Take them into thy Healing Hands, and Heal them, and Help them, and Change them, and put thy Fear into their Hearts, I pray thee, I pray thee! Who can tell, what the Lord will do for them, when He sees YOUR Faith so concerned for them?