The Great Physician, the connection of diseases and remedies with the truths of Revelation / [John Gardner].

  • John Gardner
Date:
1843
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    God threatened to Adam, and which passed upon his posterity, is not the going out of this world, but the manner of going. If he had staid in innocence, he should have gone from hence placidly and fairly, without vexatious and afflictive circumstances; he should not have died by sickness, misfortune, defect, or unwillingness; but when he fell, then he began to die, the same day, so said God, and that must needs be true ; and therefore it must mean that upon that very day he fell into an evil and dangerous condition, a state of change and affliction. Then death began, that is, the man began to die by a natural diminution and aptness to disease and misery. His first state was, and should have been, (so long as it lasted,) a happy duration ; his second was a daily and miserable change, and this was the dying properly. This appears in the great instance of damnation, which in the style of scripture is called eternal death, not because it kills or ends the duration, (it has not so much good in it,) but be- cause it is a spiritual infelicity. Change, or separa- tion of soul and body, is but accidental to death : death may be with or without either: but the formality, the curse, and the sting of death, that is, misery, sorrow, fear, diminution, defect, anguish, dishonour, and whatsoever is miserable and afflictive in nature, that is death. Death is not an action, but a whole state and condition, and this was brought in upon us by the offence of one man.”3 3 Bishop Jeremy Taylor.
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