N01375:27
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.
Thirdly; A Sick Person should be more Desirous to be Delivered from Sin, than from Sickness. Be more Sick of Sin, O Sick Man, than of any Sickness. About the Rage of thy Sinful Passions, Let this ⟨p. 19⟩be thy Sense, This is worse than any Fever. Let no Pain in thy Flesh be so Painful as This; There dwells no Good Thing in my Flesh. Sickness makes thee Listless and Feeble; Oh, Let thy Listlessness to, and Feebleness in, the Work of God, be more Uneasy to thee. It was said, Isa. XXXIII. 24. The Inhabitant shall not say, I am Sick; the People shall be Forgiven their Iniquity. Count it better to have Iniquity taken away, than to say, I am not Sick.
Thirdly; A Sick Person should be more Desirous to be Delivered from Sin, than from Sickness. Be more Sick of Sin, O Sick Man, than of any Sickness. About the Rage of thy Sinful Passions, Let this ⟨p. 19⟩be thy Sense, This is worse than any Feaver. Let no Pain in thy Flesh be so Painful as This; There dwells no Good Thing in my Flesh. Sickness makes thee Listless and Feeble; Oh, Let thy Listlessness to, and Feebleness in, the Work of God, be more Uneasy to thee. It was said, Isa. XXXIII. 24. The Inhabitant shall not say, I am Sick; the People shall be Forgiven their Iniquity. Count it better to have Iniquity taken away, than to say, I am not Sick.
Fourthly; If God will have the Sickness to be unto Death, yet let it be unto the Glory of God, by your Dying in Faith: A Faith whereof the End will be the Salvation of the Soul. It is an excellent Epitaph upon some; Heb. XI. 13. They Died in Faith. You Live by it: Oh! Die in it.
Fourthly; If God will have the Sickness to be unto Death, yet let it be unto the Glory of God, by your Dying in Faith: A Faith whereof the End will be the Salvation of the Soul. It is an excellent Epitaph upon some;