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].

  • Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet
Date:
[1750?]
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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.

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    —— 4 FRIENDLY ADVICE fo a PaTiENnT:, ‘¢ grieve the Children of Men *,”) you mu/? believe, that He has merciful Defigns in affiiGting you ;—and that, as He is always prefent with you, fo, He objerves how the Affiiction works upon your Mind; as a wi/e Phyfician who has prefcribed for a Patient, will attentively remark what Effects his Prefcriptions have produced. The Apoftle exprefly tells us, ‘* That God corres us ** for our Profit, that we may be. Partakers of his Holi- ** nefs +.”—But that we may be fo, ’tis neceflary, as the wife Man fpeaks, ‘‘ in the. Day of Adverfity, to confi- “8 fider t.”—My firft 4dvice and Requeft to you there- fore, is, that you would-ferioufly confider what is the _ prefent State of your Soul, that fo you may the better ap- prehend the particular Defign of our heavenly Father in thus chaftifing you. ; Let me intreat you. to reflect, in the firft To examine Place, whether you have Reafon to believe pees He that you are, or are not, a real Chriftian:-— ihn. | L take tt: fi d th led Chriftian. take it for granted that you are called a Chriftian;—that you have been baptized ;— _ and that you have not expre/sly renounced your Baptifm ;— that you have often attended fome Place of Chriftian Worthip ;—and that you believe the Scriptures to be the ~ Word of God. | But, certainly, this alone is not enough to prove you a i real Chriftian, and to fecure your Salvation : Whether be be Wor if there be any Crimes in the World, aaa that can draw down the Wrath of God, ay and expofe a Man to the manifeft Danger of eternal Damnation; fuch Crimes are too frequently found among fome, who are baptized Perfons, who fometimes attend public Worfhip, and don’t deny the Truth of the. Scriptures,—Are there not, among fuch, ** Whoremongers, “© Liars |\,—Adulterers, Thieves; Covetous, Drunkards,” “ Revilers, Extortioners §2”—Now the Scripture ex- prefly fays, as to {uch wicked Perfons, That they fhall not inherit the Kingdom of God; and that the abujed Name of a CHRISTIAN, which, they prefumptuoufly retain, fhall * Lamentat. iii. 33.) Heb. xii,r0. «| © J Ecclef, vii. 145 j] Rev. xxi, 8 5, § 1 Cor. vie 9, 10, ek ao