Dr. Gauden's LITURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONSIDERED.Dr. Gauden's LITƲRGICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONSIDERED.
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Dr. Gauden's LITURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONSIDERED.
Dr. Gauden's LITƲRGICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONSIDERED.
The PREFACE.
Aphor. 1 Hippocrates tells us, That in the cure of a sick person, as the Physician must do his part, so the sick person must do his part, and the *Assistants to the physician must do their part, else the cure may be hindered. How long this poor Church hath lain sick and languishing, is too well known to the Christian World; divers have tried their skill to heal us, but have proved Physicians of no value. How many thoughts this hath caused our Royal Sovereign (the King of our Prayers) since God hath in so wonderful a manner brought Him to His Throne, he knoweth best? I doubt not but He made His Prognostic so soon as He saw the Patient, that the disease was most difficult of cure; yea, to bring this Church to such a healing and healthy complexion, that God might delight to look on it, was a thing impossible for any Physician, but such a one who is infallible in the knowledge of the disease, and of the medicines which must heal, and could irresistibly cause the Patient to take the Physic, and Omnipotently concur to the blessing of it.
Aphor. 1 HIppocrates tells us, That in the cure of a sick person, as the Physician must do his part, so the sick person must do his part, and the *Assistants to the physician must do their part, else the cure may be hindered. How long this poor Church hath lain sick and languishing, is too well known to the Christian World; divers have tried their skill to heal us, but have proved Physicians of no value. How many thoughts this hath caused our Royal Soveraign (the King of our Prayers) since God hath in so wonderful a manner brought Him to His Throne, he knoweth best? I doubt not but He made His Prognostick so soon as He saw the Patient, that the disease was most difficult of cure; yea, to bring this Church to such a healing and healthy complexion, that God might delight to look on it, was a thing impossible for any Physician, but such a one who is infallible in the knowledge of the disease, and of the medicines which must heal, and could irresistibly cause the Patient to take the Physick, and Omnipotently concurre to the blessing of it.