N00768:60
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.
You have a Physician, and He is the Only Physician. There is no other Physician, that can do you any Good. We are told, Act. 4.12. There is not Salvation in any other. All other Addresses, will but leave your Souls, as Helpless as they were before: There is no Help, except in the Name of this Lord! As the Dying Martyr Cried out, so may the Dying Sinner, None but Christ! None but Christ! Men may try to lick their Souls whole, with their own Repentances, and Reformations, or may Stupefy their Souls, with the Opiates of worldly Diversions; but, O man, if thou keep at a Distance from the Lord Jesus Christ, thy Fate will be that, Jer. 46.11. In ⟨p. 31⟩vain shalt thou use many Medicines, for thou shalt not be Cured.
You have a Physician, and He is the Only Physician. There is no other Physician, that can do you any Good. We are told, Act. 4.12. There is not Salvation in any other. All other Addresses, will but leave your Souls, as Helpless as they were before: There is no Help, except in the Name of this Lord! As the Dying Martyr Cried out, so may the Dying Sinner, None but Christ! None but Christ! Men may try to lick their Souls whole, with their own Repentances, and Reformations, or may Stupify their Souls, with the Opiates of worldly Diversions; but, O man, if thou keep at a Distance from the Lord Jesus Christ, thy Fate will be that, Jer. 46.11. In ⟨p. 31⟩vain shalt thou use many Medicines, for thou shalt not be Cured.
Well then; Repair to the Lord Jesus Christ, with all the Diseases of your Souls: And spread them all before Him; Conceal none of them, Smother none of them. He demands of you, as in