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A52107
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Go in peace. Containing some brief directions for young ministers, in their visitation of the sick Useful for the people, in their state both of health, and sickness.
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Martin, John.
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1674
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Wing M840; ESTC R223744
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of but the sorrow of the world worketh death For behold this self-same thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulness it wrought in you yea what clearing of your selves yea what indignation yea what fear yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge In all things ye have approved your selves to be clear in this matter Tenthly If the sick person needs or desires instruction how to demean himself in his sickness such Scriptures will be useful as direct us to 1. Contrition for sin Job 42.2 5 6. I know that thou canst do any thing and that no thought can be withheld from thee I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Psal 19.12 Who can tell how oft he offends O cleanse thou me from my secret faults Psal 32.1 c. Blessed is the man whose unrighteousness is forgiven and whose sin is covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose spirit there is no guile I will acknowledg my sin unto thee and mine unrighteousnes have I not hid Psal 34.17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit Psal 38.1 c. Put me not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thy heavy displeasure For thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin For my wickednesses are gone over my head and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to bear I truly am set in the plague and my heaviness is ever in my sight For I will confess my wickedness and be sorry for my sin Hos 7.2 They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness Jam. 3.2 In many things we offend all 2. Humility and Patience in affliction 2 Sam. 15.25 26. And the King David said unto Zadok carry back the Ark of God into the City if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him Job 2.10 What shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil In all this did not Job sin with his lips Chap. 34.31 32. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend any more That which I see not teach thou me If I have done iniquity I will do no more Psal 27.16 O tarry thou the Lords leasure be strong and he shall comfort thy heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Lam. 3.25 26. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Mic. 7.9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Luke 21.19 In your patience possess your souls Heb. 12.7 If ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons Jam. 1.2 3 4. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing 1 Pet. 5.6 Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 3. Reliance upon God Deut. 33.26 There is none like unto the God of Jesurun Vers 27. The Eternal God is thy refuge Vers 29. Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O People saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy excellency 1 Sam. 12.22 The Lord will not forsake his People for his great Names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his People 2 Chron. 16.9 The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him Job 13.15 Though he slay me yet will I trust in him Psal 5.13 Thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield Psal 9.10 They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee Psal 22.10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born thou art my God even from my mothers womb Psal 23.4 Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me Psal 33.17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy Psal 37.40 The salvation of the righteous cometh of the Lord which is also their strength in the time of trouble Psal 62.1 My soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him cometh my salvation Isa 30.15 Thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and confidence shall be your strength Lam. 3.25 26. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 4. The Benefit and Comfort of Prayer Isa 26.8 9. In the way of thy judgments O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Job 42.10 The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends Psal 50.15 Call upon me in the time of trouble So will I hear thee and thou shalt praise me Psal 55.17 18. As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me In the evening and morning and at noon day I will pray and that instantly and he shall hear my voice Psal 65.2 3. Thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come My misdeeds prevail against me O be thou merciful unto our sins Psal 69.13 c. Lord I make my prayer to thee in an acceptable time Hear me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation Take me out of the mire that I sink not Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters Let not the deep flood drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the Pit shut her mouth upon me Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindness is comfortable turn thee unto me according to
that plague 2 Tim. 1.12 For which cause I also suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day Heb. 12.11 12. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous Nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees Ninthly When the sick person doubteth of the Truth or seasonableness of his Repentance these Scriptures are proper that set forth 1. The Nature of true Repentance 2 Sam. 24.10 Davids heart smote him after that he had numbered the People and David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly Ezek. 18.21 22. If the wicked man will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not dye All his transgressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live Joh. 5.14 Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee 2. Fruits of it Hos 14.1 2. O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity Take with you words and turn to the Lord say unto him take away all iniquity and receive us graciously so will we offer unto thee the calves of our lips Luke 3.7 c. O generation of Vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance And now also the Axe is laid unto the root of the trees Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire And the People asked him saying what shall we do then He answered and saith unto them He that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him do likewise Acts 3.26 God having raised up his son Jesus sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities Rom. 6.4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life Chap. 7.4 Wherefore my Brethren ye also are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God 3. Gods acceptance and reward of them 2 Chron. 12.7 When the Lord saw they had humbled themselves the word of the Lord came unto Shemajah saying they have humbled themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jernsalem by the hand of Shishak Psal 32.6 I said I will confess my sin unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Neh. 1.9 If ye turn unto me and keep my commandements and do them though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the Heaven yet will I gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my Name there Ezek. 33.14 15 16. When I say unto the wicked thou shalt surely dye if he turn from his sin and do that which is lawful and right If the wicked restore the pledg give again that he had robbed walk in the statutes of life without committing iniquity he shall surely live he shall not dye None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him he hath done that which is lawful and right he shall surely live Mat. 16.27 The son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works Rom. 6.22 Being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Heb. 6.10 God is not unrighteous to forget your labour and work of love Rev. 14.13 Their works follow them Chap. 20.13 Death and the grave delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to his works 4. Diligent search into our state and the truth and sincerity of our repentance then especially when but a short time is likely to be afforded for the trial thereof 2 Chron. 25.2 Amaziah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart Job 27.3 to 7. All the while my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils My lips shall not speak wickedness nor shall my tongue utter deceit till I dye I will not remove my integrity from me My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Psal 26.2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart Psal 78.34 c. When he slew them they sought him and turned them early and enquired after God And they remembred that God was their strength and the High God was their Redeemer Nevertheless they did but flatter him with their mouth and dissembled with him in their tongues For their heart was not whole with him neither continued they stedfast in his covenant Isa 58.1 2. Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins Yet they seek me dayly and delight to know my ways as a Nation that did righteousness and forsook not the Ordinance of their God they ask of me the Ordinances of Justice and take delight in approaching to God Ezek. 14.3 These men have set up their Idols in their heart and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face should I be enquired of at all by them Mat. 7.21 c. Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy Name and in thy Name have cast out Devils and in thy Name done many wonderful works And then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity Luke 13.24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate for many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able 2 Cor. 7.9 10 11. I rejoyce not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner that ye might receive dammage by us in nothing For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented