Tracts On The Prayer Book Selected From The Tracts For Parochial Use

Author : Books Group
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458944719
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Tracts for Parochial Use written by Books Group and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and thus they have connected a clergyman's visit with death; they are frightened to send for him, as though they gave themselves over by so doing. But all this is wrong. The sick should not wait till they are past hope; all this dread and nervousness at the visit of their ghostly friend and guide would be lessened, if men were apt to seek his help in lesser sicknesses, or at the beginning of the sickness. Take therefore my advice; ask him to come directly, before you are very bad; he may not come of himself, for he may not hear that you are ill. 3. When he comes, receive him as an ambassador of Christ, as one who is in Christ's stead. He may speak plainly and tell you of your sins. You must bear with it in all meekness, for he does not come to flatter you. Your doctor does not look at the whole and the sound parts of your body; he leaves them alone; he lets them take care of themselves; he looks to the sickly parts, and looks thoroughly into them; he may make you smart and put you to pain, and tell you what you do not like to know, and yet you bear with him. Should not the doctor of the soul do the same ? Should he not leave your good qualities alone, and see what your sins are, and speak to you plainly of your sins ? Should you not bearwith him, and let him speak out his mind without offence; he only speaks for your good. 4. Give yourself instantly to prayer; you can do this before either doctor or clergyman have time to come; and the best way to prepare for their visits is to pray. If you want the doctor's skill to be of use, you must pray for God's blessing upon his skill, else all his medicine is only so much water spilt upon the ground, and his cleverness goes for nothing. Or if you want the clergyman's prayers or counsel to do you good, you must pray also for a bless...