ISBN: 9780217048002

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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: SERMON III. Genesis, viii. 21. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Bodily sickness makes itself so clearly felt that a sick man seldom requires to be convinced that he is unwell, although it may not always be easy to persuade him to take the proper remedies. It does, however, sometimes happen, that a disease is working secretly within us, and that it is more visible to others by some of its symptoms, than it is perceptible to ourselves from any actual pain or indisposition which we feel. In such a case it is clearly needful to awaken the patient to a sense of his danger, in order that he may take proper precautions against it and if it is not always prudent to make him aware of its full extent, it is only because fear in bodily sickness is often as fatal as disease and a man may do himself more harm by fancying himself in a desperate state than he could receive good from any increased care of himself, which he might be prevailed upon to take in consequence of his fears. But if ill every illness we were certain of recovering, provided we took care of ourselves, and duly followed the advice of our physician, then there could be no risk in telling us the real state of our case, because the knowledge would only frighten us usefully it would only so far frighten us as to make us careful and complying, because we should know that we should certainly die if we were not so, and should certainly get well if we were so. It would then be a real kindness to impress on a friend as strongly as possible every particular symptom of his danger to tell him how other persons had died of the same complaints by not attending to them in time to assure him, that however blind he may be to his own condition, it is clear to every one else, that disease is actually making...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 0217048005

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