Extracts from the spiritual diary of John Rutty, M.D / [John Rutty].

  • John Rutty
Date:
1840
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Credit: Extracts from the spiritual diary of John Rutty, M.D / [John Rutty]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    & love took place, in a sudden irradiation, tending to stop me in my career after natural knowledge. Here also, some inclination to marriage, but over- ruled by a secret hand. 7 About the twenty-second I removed to a lodging with, not a nominal, but a real friend in London. Thence to Holland, in order to finish my medical education: here the object was all nature and physic, no grace: also serious thoughts of proper qualification for a livlihood, as I had scarce any patrimony. | In my tweny-fifth year commenced my practice, with some revival of religious thoughtfulness. 1724. I was transplanted to Dublin by a singu- lar Providence, even among brethren of high profession, and I now made a covenant with my Maker. I saw the formality and hypocrisy of divers of the profession, and was offended ; but was preserv- ed from hurt from hence by an inward call to this purpose: ‘ Look not out, but in.’ Soon after my arrival, I opened a scheme for the improvement of the A/aterza Medica, which has, with some interruptions, been prosecuted to this present time, being the forty-fourth year. | 1733. Began my history of the people called Quakers in Ireland, not for reward, but from zeal, and a cordial love to the exercise of Christian dis- cipline among them, extended not tc a few external particulars only, as dress and address, but also to the inordinate pursuit of riches, to lukewarmness, and to prophaneness, and all immorality. The contemplation of this was pleasant, and carried me through the labour with cheerfulness. 1737. Published an Essay on Women’s preach- ing, with a rebuke to false prophets, who had long given me offence : some censure ensued; but God preserved from extreme measures.
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