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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
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 CASE is yet waiting; How must we bear our Grievous Things?
First; You have been already told, You must bear your Griefs, AS GOD SHALL ENABLE YOU. This implies, That they must be born Prayerfully. The first Thing you are to do, is to confess, That you can bear Nothing. But then, in an Humble Sense of your own Inability to bear the least Thing in the World, fly to God, cry to God, ask for the Help of God Hope to Bear, as well as to Do, all Things, according to the Motto of Christianity, THROUGH' CHRIST, WHO STRENGTHENS ME. It was a ⟨p. 33⟩most proper Counsel; Jam. V. 13. Is there any among you Afflicted? Let him Pray. When Grievous Things are laid upon you, receive them, as the Camels do their Burdens; receive them on your Knees: Fall to Praying immediately. But more than so, Carry them in this Posture too, as long as they must lye upon you. Your Prayers under all your Griefs! Your Prayers: To call for these, verily, 'tis not the least Errand of your Griefs: This is the Message they come upon. Oh! pour out thy Prayer unto God, now His Chastening is upon thee. Now this is to be one very Repeated Stroke of your Prayers; Lord, help me to bear my Grief: To bear it Suitably. O my God, Let me not by any unsuitable Behaviour Dishonour Thee, under the Grievous Things which thou dost Order for me! My Fellow-sufferers, I will now speak a Good Word, which may make your Heart Glad, when stooping with Heaviness. 'Tis this; A Solicitude about this thing, To ⟨p. 34⟩obtain Help from our God, that we may not Sin under our Grief; 'Tis a lovely Token of a Soul bound up in the Bundle of Life: A lovely Token of an Heart sound in the Statutes of God. It is a Token of Salvation; And such a Token, that it is well worth meeting with some Grievous Things, to have such a Discovery of it.
First; You have been already told, You must bear your Griefs, AS GOD SHALL ENABLE YOU. This implies, That they must be born Prayerfully. The first Thing you are to do, is to confess, That you can bear Nothing. But then, in an Humble Sense of your own Inability to bear the least Thing in the World, fly to God, cry to God, ask for the Help of God Hope to Bear, as well as to Do, all Things, according to the Motto of Christianity, THRO' CHRIST, WHO STRENGTHENS ME. It was a