A man under increasing disease, and in the apprehension of death, seeks with earnestness of desire for some able physician. Sirs, have you been so deeply sensible of the disease of sin, and that eternal death it threatens, as to cry with the importunity of a soul, who apprehends its destruction near? “Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?” “Lord save me, I perish?” O! then, how precious that remedy which the gospel exhibits! “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
James Bowden — James Bowden, The Affection of Christ to His Young Disciples; or, Fervent and Early Piety Recommended and Encouraged: A Sermon Occasioned by the Much Lamented Death of Thomas Bowden, Who Departed This Life March 15th, 1795, Aged Ten Years; Preached at Lower-Tooting, in Surry, March 22d, 1795 (London, 1795), p. 27
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