Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-05-22

apos,ate state OF man. A cfeature as
prone to evil as the sparks.io ascene'
and !" from the crown OF the head TO the
solo If the foot, nothing but wounds,
aud bruises, and putrifying sores, could
never have come such, oat o. the ha'as
of a holy, gracious and merclinl Beng
No, Gid made man in his own image
pure and holy, but he wI3ally slnned'
and brought upoe himself and pester',ty'
all the eyils and calami.ics under which
the whole human family groans. But
blessed be God, he hath comm's'erated
the wrc,ched state of his poor fallen
creatures, and provided for them COLI
ple,c remedy. He hath sent his Son H.
to the world as a benevolent and nfai'i'
bic pM stefan, who opens the eyes OF the
blind, un.,ops the cars of the deal, and
makes the lame to leap as ar hart. lie
heals the sick, he binds up the broken IN
heart, he cleanses the lcpers, and raises
the dead. Our God, indeed, is the Iod
ofmercy. lie is ,enderiy alive to-a's the
wants Of his creatures, and hath made
ample provision for their desperate ST.
tuation.
Jesus Christ is an all wise and inial.
ible Physician. No man can be Deem
ed Physician, unless he knows the ma
ture, process, period, and consequences
Of disease for this is indispensabiy ne
ce..ary to the application of remedy
This Physician, therefore, "peed not
that any should testify of man, for he
knew what was 10 man" his discourses
on fallen humanity, may be deemed lee
ture, on the anatomy OF The soo.-
While the Litera,i and Philosophers OF
I'D, marked cnIy.the outward conduct,
JEsrs penet'ttes the heart, and disco
vsrs its most latent evils. In the Holy
Scriptures, eur infaliible Physician has
clearly laid open The thoughts ard the
imarirations If tie heart, the origin OF
lis depravity, its operations. and its ten
dencv, so that the enlightened mind
NAV perceive its own likeness, In or
der to effect complete cure, Jesus by
his Spirit probes the heart ct the diseas-
ed, and makes him feel the nature and
consequences of human guilt; end he is
convinced that "the heart is deceIt'ui
above all things, and desperately wick
ed" No efforts of science, nor the dim
lights Of unassisted reason, could hove
produced this discovery in the heart OF
man the effect of which BUNDLES tie
sinner before God, and creates in him an
anxiou, desire for the application of the
healing balm of Jesus, the all-suGioicnt
Phv.iciaD.
For the further consolation Of discas.
ed and sia.siek mo,tals, Jesus assures
US, that he has the means, and the only
means, which can effect complete cure.
The sovereign balm, which cAectually
cures multi,udcs of the sick and the dy.
ing, is his most precious blood. BY " his
stripes we-are healed" Wonder, O
Heavens and be 'astonished, 0 Earth
The Physician dies bimself to let the pa
tient live! Here, weeping, dying. hope
less sinners! here in he Savioar's pierre
ed side, is the fountain opposed for sin
and uncleanness. Here runs, in copiOus,
never filling streams, that "blood which
clcanseih from all SIM" and healeth
I'll .ur infrmities."
This precious, this ef6cacious remedy
or sinful, dying man, We. determined in
the Council Of Heaven, it was realized
on Mount Calvary, and it receives its
virtue from the dignity of the Physician,
who is Emmanuel, God with 49,
O that the guilty race of mortals, who
are infected with this icve,erate disease,
would contemplate with a believing
heart, the excellence and skill of this
great Physieisn--surely they would ap
ply to him, and experience his all-heal-
Ing power.
Jesu. Christ knew perfectly the state
Of man, and tae absolute necessity of
iul6iling every demand of the holy Ia"