N01375:6
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.
The Intention.
The ESSAY now before us, is Published; Not only that it may be dispersed to afflicted Family's, in a Time of Epidemical Sickness, when our Pastors, who would fain Visit all the Sick, have not Strength to go through' a Service, to which, their Charity disposes them, as much as their Ministry Obliges them. The Publication also aims, at a Supply for our Visits of the Sick at any other Time; for we are sure, Them we shall have always with us: And we cannot Speak unto them, every thing that we mightily desire to have them Think upon. But, You that are the Tenders and Watchers, may perhaps find your Opportunity's to Read a few Proper Lines unto your Patients; Which, when tis done, — O Spirit of Grace, Do thou accompany it, with thy Gracious and Saving Operations!
THe ESSAY now before us, is Published; Not only that it may be dispersed to afflicted Family's, in a Time of Epidemical Sickness, when our Pastors, who would fain Visit all the Sick, have not Strength to go thro' a Service, to which, their Charity disposes them, as much as their Ministry Obliges them. The Publication also aims, at a Supply for our Visits of the Sick at any other Time; for we are sure, Them we shall have always with us: And we cannot Speak unto them, every thing that we mightily desire to have them Think upon. But, You that are the Tenders and Watchers, may perhaps find your Opportunity's to Read a few Proper Lines unto your Patients; Which, when tis done, — O Spirit of Grace, Do thou accompany it, with thy Gracious and Saving Operations!