Friendly advice to a patient: calculated more particularly for the use of the sick belonging to the Infirmaries ... / [Sir James Stonhouse].
- Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet
- Date:
- 1824
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Friendly advice to a patient: calculated more particularly for the use of the sick belonging to the Infirmaries ... / [Sir James Stonhouse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![r . r l Yoa are afflicted, and I hope you know nQ dt1 Author your Afflictions come from the Hand of oj Affliction. God. \ ou must know it, if you believe there is a God, and that he preserves, governs, and directs all Things: A fact so evident to the common Sense of Maukind, that, I would Lope, none can so much as question it. Now', if you believe, that God so far regards you, as to send Afflictions (as you know too, that “lie docs not af- flict willingly, or grieve “ the Children of Men’,#) you must believe, that lie has merciful Designs in afflicting you :—and that, as he is always present with you, so lie observes what Influence this Afflic- tion has on your Mind ; as a wise Physician who has prescribed for a Patient, will attentively remark what Effects his Prescriptions have produced. The Apostle expressly tells us, “ That God cor- “ rects us for our Profit, that we may be Partakers “ of his Holiness +.” But that we may he so, it is necessary, as Solomoji directs, “ in the Day of Ad- versity to consider].”—My first Advice and Request to you therefore is, that you would seriously consider what is your present State of Mind, that so you may the better apprehend the particular Design of our heavenly Father in thus chastising you. Let me intreat you to reflect, in the To examine first Place, w hether you have Reason *° Relieve tliat >ou are» or are n0* a real Christian: I take it for granted that you are called a Christian;—that you have been bap- tised ;—and that you have not expressly renounced your Baptism ;—that you have often attended some Place of Christian Worship ;—and that you believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God. But, certainly, this alone is not enough to prove you a real Christian, and to secure your Salvation: * Iamentaf. iii. 33. t Heb. xii. 10. t Ecclcs. rii. 14.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22030773_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
