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Insanabilia. An essay upon incurables; handling that case, What shall people do under their…
Insanabilia. An essay upon incurables; handling that case, What shall people do under their griefs, when there is no curing of them? And aimed at the comfort and counsel of the many, who encounter those grievous things, for which there is no remedy but patience. : [One line epigram in Latin]Insanabilia. An essay upon incurables; handling that case, What shall people do under their griefs, when there is no curing of them? And aimed at the comfort and counsil of the many, who encounter those grievous things, for which there is no remedy but patience. : [One line epigram in Latin]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet for Samuel Gerrish, 1714
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An Inclination to Sin, a Pro| ⟨p. 21⟩pensity to Sin, which will be a Leprosy cleaving to us, till the Walls of our Clay-Tabernacle be all taken down. My Reason for this Omission, is, Because I propose the Mention of no Grievous Things, but such as we ought to bear Patiently, and be Reconciled unto. Now out Sin is a Grief, never to be born with any Patience. We are always to be Groaning under it. It will be no Offence unto Heaven to say, Lord, I cannot bear it! The most agreeable Strain under it will always be that; Lord, I am Oppressed, undertake for me!
An Inclination to Sin, a Pro| ⟨p. 21⟩pensity to Sin, which will be a Leprosy cleaving to us, till the Walls of our Clay-Tabernacle be all taken down. My Reason for this Omission, is, Because I propose the Mention of no Grievous Things, but such as we ought to bear Patiently, and be Reconcil'd unto. Now out Sin is a Grief, never to be born with any Patience. We are always to be Groaning under it. It will be no Offence unto Heaven to say, Lord, I cannot bear it! The most agreeable Strain under it will always be that; Lord, I am Oppressed, undertake for me!
But this Advice cannot leave us, without an Admonition; Heaven-born Souls, Long for Heaven! Since the present State will and must be a Grievous one, even bear it, as long as God shall please to keep you in it. But then, methinks, the Future state should be Preferred with you; should be Desired by you: A Better state, you may depend upon it. Sirs, You shall not therein do, according ⟨p. 22⟩to the Things which you do here this Day. Nor shall you therein suffer such Abasements, and such Encumbrances, and such Inconveniences, as are now the Grievous Things of your Pilgrimage. O determine this; I shall never be well, till I come to Heaven.
But this Advice cannot leave us, without an Admonition; Heavenborn Souls, Long for Heaven! Since the present State will and must be a Grievous one, e'en bear it, as long as God shall please to keep you in it. But then, methinks, the Future state should be Preferr'd with you; should be Desir'd by you: A Better state, you may depend upon it. Syrs, You shall not therein do, according