Friendly advice to a patient: to which are added, spiritual directions for the uninstructed; The first calculated ... for the use of the sick, belonging to the Infirmaries ... The second ... is no less proper for the use of Infirmary patients, than for the uninstructed in all conditions / [Sir James Stonhouse].

  • Stonhouse, James, Sir, 1716-1795
Date:
[1750?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Friendly advice to a patient: to which are added, spiritual directions for the uninstructed; The first calculated ... for the use of the sick, belonging to the Infirmaries ... The second ... is no less proper for the use of Infirmary patients, than for the uninstructed in all conditions / [Sir James Stonhouse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    27/128 (page 11)
    8 re ge hall -~ on Frarenpty Apvice ¢¢a¢ Patient. rt Salvation to every one that believeth ; if thus grounded you confetentioufly guard agaiag all known Sin, and’ e truly forry when you fall into any by Jnfirmity or Surprife ;— and in fuch: a Cafe, apply. izemediately to the Adercy of God, through the AZerits of Chrift, for your Pardon, with renewed Refolutions againft Sin for the future, and hearty Defires, that God would preferve you from all impiety ; then indeed you are areal Chriftian:—And I fhould be forry if any thing I have here written fhould give you one Moment’s Diftrefs.. Weigh this Matter therefore impartially; weigh it _ with the flricteft Attention ;—for if this be not your Cha- -racter, be affured you are an unpardoned Sinner ;—-you are under the Curle of God’s Law ;—and you muft Believe, —Repent,—and be Reformed:——The whole Tem- per of your Heart, and thijiubole Courfe of your Life *, muft be changed, or you muft perifh for ever.— Take it not as refting on the Authority of a weak and fallible _Mortal, but as the Decifion of our Divine Mafter him- felf, the faithful and the true Witnefi, who has exprefsly faid, and folemnly repeated it, ‘* Except ye repent, ye _ fhall all likewife perifh +;—-He that believeth not, is _ “ condemned already, and the Wrath of God abideth *‘ on him {; and ithe Wicked fhall go away into ever- “* Jafting f Punifhment §.” a rem carne ee em * John iii. 3. + Luke xiii. 3. t Johg iii. 18, 36. i! Matt. xxv. 46. . § Now upon the whole Matter; what can a carele/t debauched Perfon fay to thefe Things # Though he fiurdily bears up at prefent againit thefe Impreffions, can he think, that he thal! always be able to brave it out againft God.and his own Confcience ?—Can he fanfy, that he shall not (at leaft in the da Hours of his Life) con- dein himfelf with very difmal RefleQions on the Folly of his Sin,, and the ¢errible Foreboding of its Punifbment ; as many unthinking and axbeppy People have done before him?—Too many flight Reli- gion in their Health and Profperity)though they cannot but efecm it in Time of Daxger and Death. _ See Page 55. of that alarming little Book, Dr. Woopwarp’s Fair Warnings to a carelefi World—in which he has. colleéted the Sentiments of the wo/ eminent Men, in their Serious, or dying Hours, 4 : ; } If