N01375:10
Wholesome words. A visit of advice, given unto families that are visited with sickness;…
Wholesome words. A visit of advice, given unto families that are visited with sickness; by a pastoral letter, briefly declaring the duties incumbent on all persons in the families, that have any sick persons in them. : [Two lines of quotations]
Boston: printed for D. Henchman, 1713
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
A Pastoral LETTER, UNTO Family's that have Sickness Exercising of them, or any one Person in them.
YOU are so well Instructed, O our Afflicted Neighbours, that you cannot be ignorant of this Truth; Sickness and Weakness carry's in it, very strong Obligations to Duty: And Sickness in a Family bespeaks Duty from no less than all the Family. When Sickness comes into any Family, tho' but One Person should be Visited, it administers a Manifold Occasion for Serious Religion to be Exercised by the whole Family, even by every Person belonging unto it. We have thought it therefore a part of our Pastoral Watchfulness over you, our Dear Flock, to put into your Hands, (for, alas, how many do Forget the Exhortations delivered by us, when we manage the Public Exhortations!) a Brief, a Plain, a Faithful Monitor of the Duty, whereto the Voice of God by Sickness among us, is ⟨p. 2⟩aloud calling of us. These are the Admonitions, whereto your Attention is now demanded in the Name & Fear of God.
YOU are so well Instructed, O our Afflicted Neighbours, that you cannot be ignorant of this Truth; Sickness and Weakness carry's in it, very strong Obligations to Duty: And Sickness in a Family bespeaks Duty from no less than all the Family. When Sickness comes into any Family, tho' but One Person should be Visited, it administers a Manifold Occasion for Serious Religion to be Exercised by the whole Family, even by every Person belonging unto it. We have tho't it therefore a part of our Pastoral Watchfulness over you, our Dear Flock, to put into your Hands, (for, alas, how many do Forget the Exhortations delivered by us, when we manage the Publick Exhortations!) a Brief, a Plain, a Faithful Monitor of the Duty, whereto the Voice of God by Sickness among us, is ⟨p. 2⟩aloud calling of us. These are the Admonitions, whereto your Attention is now demanded in the Name & Fear of God.