The Works of George Swinnock - Softcover

Swinnock, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851516394 ISBN 13: 9780851516394

Publisher: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1992

Synopsis

Nt; THSOL THE CHRISTIAN MANS CALLING. PAKT III. CHAPTER VII. How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in visiting the sick. Fifthly, Thy duty is to exercise thyself in visiting the sick. The visitation of the sick is a work of as great weight as any enjoined us relating to others, and as much neglected and slighted in its management as almost any duty commanded. Sickness is so common, and death so ordinary, that with most their frequency takes away the sense of them, and charity in many sickens and dieth as fast as others bodies. The generality of pretended Christians, like the priest and the Levite, if they see a man wounded, both in his body and soul, though it be to death, pass on the other side of the way, not caring to meddle with any that are in misery. They tell us they are true members of Christ, but, like a bag of suppurated blood, they feel nothing, neither have any communion with the body. Many on their dying beds, whose souls are worse and more dangerously sick than their bodies, may speak to their minister or neighbour (for the duty belongs to the people as well as the pastor) almost in the words of Martha to Christ, Sir, if thou hadst been here, my soul had not died. Some visit the sick, but rather out of a compliment than out of conscience, or to profit themselves more than their neighbours. The ingenious heathen Seneca, will tell such. If a man visit his sick friend, and watch at his pillow for charitys sake, and out of his old affection, we approve it; but if for a legacy, he is a vulture, and watcheth only for the carcase.
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Edition details

• Publisher: The Banner of Truth Trust
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851516394
• ISBN 13: 9780851516394
• Binding: Paperback