124' Howm#jt we vi f tfickperfo,s' 5erm, b S. It is a very bad guide co follow the counfels or re se! of tick per_ fons, or their carnal friends . It fares with faithful Minifiers, as with hone[} and able Phy(itians,chat are many times ill thoughtof by the tick man, and foolifh friends, when they put him to pain, or trouble, they 'charge himwith cruelty and delighting to torment the poor man untie_ ceffarily, and it may be think of difcharging hire, andgetting a Phyí_ tian that gill deal more gently with him : whereas indeed he is the lick mans befi friend, and many times fhould be nor pain him, he would kill him : fo is it here, Come to a fick man, he cries, Comfort for Gods fake, fo fay his friends, and they think all is done,if they can get corn_ fort : why, you (}tall have it, but in due time; you lhall have cafe, health, etc. but you mull be contented to wait for ir, and expedl it in due order, firft you mutt be fick ; oft times that phyfick is the bell, whichmakes you ficicefl ; you (hall be healed, but if you would proceed regularly, and work a truecure,you mutt fir if have your wound fearched, and then healel, elfe you have only a palleacive cure, and the wound will fetter inwardly: and it is an horrible millake of tick perfons, they think comfort is all they are to look after, I tell you, it is not prefenc cornfort,but everlafiing happinefs, you mua make your bufinefs to get ir is not AuguJ1u his UJ37i -)37i 76G, co die quietly, like a Lamb, (as the vul- g,rphrafe it) but a Scripture wSJaoaAa, to die the death of the righte- ous: it is not fo much a calm, and fweet,, and eatiepaff.ge, ( the fifties have chat, when they fwim down the fweec amain of Jordan, into the dead fea,wherethey perifh) but a fafe harbour ; one maygo to heaven in a fiorm,and to hell in a calm ; and which is better, judge you : chofe wretches in Pfd.73, have no bands in their death, and }.et death bath dominion over them. Comfort is not thegreat bufinefs you need. 6. The fame courfe for tub/lance is to be taken for the converfion of lick and healthful perfons, Ci^ c. there is but one way to heaven, for all perfons; and therefore confider with your felves what you would do,if they were in health, and what were neceffary then, why,th'at fame courfe you mutt cake.now:and if it be more troublefome to tickperfons, they may thank themfelves for it, who negle &ed the time of their health,ts"c. indeed fick men are apt to favour themfelves, and to think God will accept of lefs from them, chan others, whereas, if poffible, they have need to do more than others, and to make the more hafte, having the lefs time for their Work. 7. Thegreacefi caremua be to keep tick perfons from chofe errours whereby fuch perfons commonly mifcarry, fuch as thefe, t. Infenfiblenefs of their danger, whereas the frfl £lep to cure, i, to
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