N00768:65
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.
First; Meditate, Meditate, upon your Diseases, till Meditation do produce Conviction. There was a Convinced man, who thus came to be so; Psal. 119.59. I thought upon my ways.
First; Meditate, Meditate, upon your Diseases, till Meditation do produce Conviction. There was a Convinced man, who thus came to be so; Psal. 119.59. I thought upon my wayes.
Meditate on the Vileness of all Sin; as it not only Wrongs your own Souls, but as it is a Denying, and a Defying of the Infinite God, and as it procures and incurs, provokes and invokes, His infinite Wrath.
Meditate on the Number of your own Sin; and set before your selves a Catalogue of what is Forbidden and what is Required in the Commandments of God; and see how much you fall into what is Forbidden, and fall short of what is Required.
Meditate on the Circumstances that aggravate your Sin; the Light and Love, and Vows, against which you have Sinned. Muse, till the Fire Burns!