Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

236 · Tht Trial and Su-.~ 19 bath in no fort exempted us, Matth. vii. u. 1 Cor. xi. 14. Epb. v. 2.8. 19. Now as a Man having fallen from a high Place upon a Rock, and bath broken bones of Thighs and Legs, though he be cured, & can walk abroad, yet alibis Day& he halteth in his'walking ; or like one that is cured ofan extream Fever,Tertian, at fuch & fuch Seafons, fome Fits of the Difea{e recurreth: Yet ,is he not to doubt of the Fidelity and Love of the Chirurgeon and Phyfician, who bath really cured him, in fo far as he is in Capacity in this Life to be cured ; and therefore, as he is to walk warily, and with Circumfpetlion .all his Days, caring for his crazed Body; fo is he to be thankful tothofe who recovereth him, and may be fad and heavy now and then; that by his own Folly and Temerity, he hurt his Body: For even Sins pardoned, as concerning their eternal Guilt, by our Sovereign Phyfician Cbrift in Juftification, lay a Law on us to ferve our Phyfician Chrift in thefe pofitive f'.A>mmandf!lC:nts ~f Obedience, Lo~e Sorrow, Softnefs of Sptrtt, wtth a Care to fin no more, though we muft needs halt, and flip all our Days, yet not fo tofo~row, as to call in Doubt the Reality of pardonmg . Grace. SER•

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