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

Date:: 1743

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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$Cafualties and Difeafes are warded off] what Pro [perity and Succefs in Affairs may be allotted, as the Token of his favourable Regard to this pious Munificence. Neither can it be improper for me to add upon this Head, that what was more diredtly intended as a Benefit to the Body, may prove a Blefiing to the Soul, For difiolute PerfionSy by this Means being brought for a while under regular Dificipliney may perhaps be broken and reclaimed: The good In/lruCtions they receive from Miniflers who attend them, efpecially while the Rod of God is upon them, and his Sword may feem to hang over them; the Spectacles of Mortality frequently before their Eyes; together with the Regularity and good Or- der to which in finch Places they will be accufiomedy and their being Jheltered from many PemptationSy from which, in fiome Kinds of Sicknefis, the Patient is not necef- farily fecure \ may all, under the Influence of Divine Gracey prove the Means of fow- ing the Seeds of true Religion in their Hearts, and of infujing into their Minds that no- hlefi of all Cordiahy an Antidote againfl: the fiervile Fears of the Second Death. Nor does it appear to me a contemp¬ tible Effedt of this Charityy that as it is neceffarily concerted upon a Plany in which all Parties and Denominations are equally con-$