Compassion to the sick recommended and urged, in a sermon preached at Northampton, September 4, 1743. In favour of a design ... to erect a county infirmary there / [Philip Doddridge].

  • Philip Doddridge
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1743
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Credit: Compassion to the sick recommended and urged, in a sermon preached at Northampton, September 4, 1743. In favour of a design ... to erect a county infirmary there / [Philip Doddridge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to that moft natural Defcription of Job, when a Man is chaftened with Pain upon his Bed, and the Multitude of his Bones with Jlrong Pain, how does his Life ab¬ hor Bread, and his Soul dainty Meat; fo that his Flefh is confumed away, that it can¬ not be fee?2, and his Bones, which were not feen, flick oute / In fome Di(tempers, what convulfive Stragglings, what terrible Heav ings and Pant mgs for Breath ! In others, what deep Sighs do we obferve, what piercing Groans, what doleful Cries! Or in Perfons of a more refolute Temper, a- midft a painful Silence, what earnejl fpeak- ing Looks, while perhaps large Drops of Sweat are trickling down the Face, and Nature feems, as it were, to be weeping its Diftrefs at every Pore! And in Cafes lefs acute than thefe, what Months of Vanity are many aCtive Souls made to poflefs, and what wearifome Nights are appointed to themf / How fowly do the Hours and the Moments roll away, while in the Evening they fay. Would to GOD it were Morn¬ ing-, and in the Morning, Would to GOD it were Evening s / but find themfelves equally difappointed in their Expectations of Relief, from the Silence of the Night, or the Amufements of the Day : Till at length e job xxxiii. 19, zo, 2i« f Job vii. 3. g Deut. xxviii. 67.
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