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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    | : , FrrenDLy Apvick toa PATIENT. . 5} do them no Manner of Service * :—-Nor is Profane Swears; ing and Sabbath- Breaking, though perfifted in by fuch Multitudes, lefs deftructive: For ‘¢ the Wages of thefe « Sins is (eterna/) Death,” and the Practice of them a Jure Sign of an irreligious Heart. | If you therefore find, in your own Confcience, that you are fuch a Sinner ;—that you profane the Name of _ God ;—that you cu/fomarily break his Sabbaths (as if yow would force your Way through that Fence, toa Thouland - other Tranfgreffions ;)—that you have lived in fecret, or open Uncleannefs ;—that you allow yourfelf in Lying, Stealing, Cheatirg, Covetoufnefs, Drunkennefs, Back- . biting, or Injuftice ;—or in any other evil Courfe, which you know to be contrary to the Word of God and the Defign of his Gofpel ; you cannot doubt one Hour, nay, one Moment, about your State.—-Whatever your Notions and Pretences, and Forms of Religion may be, you are undoubiedly a wicked Perfon,-under the Dz/pleafure of God ;—and in Danger of everlafting Mifery.— You have therefore Reafon to think God lays this Affliction upon you, to rouze and. awaken your Confcience ;—to fhake you as it were, out of this dead Sleep of Sin; that you may humble yourfclf before him; left tA7s Sicknefs deliver you over to Death, and Death to that Judgment, by which: you fhall-be caft into Hell. saa Bat I muft in Faithfulnefs farther tell you, eee 4 That though you be free from any Tack . outfide Chrifi- abovainable Wickednefs, as I have defcri- an, deftitute of bed above, you may neve’ thelefs be a formal, ce lukewarm, and fruitlefs Profeflor of Chrif- _ 4 tianity,—under the Guilt of numberlefs Sins, andin the Way to utter Ruin.—Undoubtedly you are fo5 if you have “* no Fear of Gad before your Eyes + ;”—if you have ‘+ no Love to God {37 —if you live “* without God in the World \\;—1f you have not been wfed to pray ;—and I * * Not every one that /aith unto me, Lord, Lerd, thall enter into * the Kingdom of Heaven); but he that doetd the Will of my Father ** which is in Heaven.” Matt. vii. 21. ¢ Plaim xxxvi..1, (o fijohnw.g2. f] Ephefiu, 12. Soir B 3 will