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Updated: May 19, 2025
To attract his readers to come personally, and partake the blessings imparted by the water of life, Bunyan shows that, as a medicine, it alone is the specific to cure the sin-sick soul all other applications must fail most fatally 'all other remedies come from and return to the Dead Sea' while the water of life issues from, and leads the soul to, the throne of God.
Jailers asked for no pay, but depended upon the money they could wring from the wretched beings in their charge for food and small alleviations to their misery. In 1773 John Howard commenced his work in the prisons, and the idea was first conceived that the object of punishment should be not to degrade sin-sick humanity, but to reform it.
If you will look at facts, what you will find is this: -that all sins and bad habits fill the soul with evil humours, just as a fever or any other severe disease fills the body; and that, as in the case of a fever, those evil humours remain after the acute disease is past, and are but too apt to break out again, to cause relapses, to torment the poor patient, perhaps to leave his character crippled and disfigured all his life certainly to require long and often severe treatment by the heavenly physician, Christ, the purifier as well as the redeemer of our sin-sick souls.
World, as the stranger stood panting for breath. "All a mystery! Even the air is filled with poison and weird music. I am thankful that I have escaped with my life." "Come, come, Mr. Sin-Sick, tell us more about it. We may thereby profit greatly," said Mr. World with more composure. World and his companion were entering the valley of Conviction a terrified man came running towards them.
"I come, however," said the king, in a rude, harsh voice, and thrusting the queen's arm in his own, "to cast gloom upon this fete; it is good and necessary in the midst of tumultuous earthly pleasures to be reminded of the fleeting vanity of all sublunary things; and to still the voluptuous music with prayer, I am come to administer this medicine to your vain and sin-sick soul.
"Pity and save my sin-sick soul, 'Tis thou alone canst make me whole; Dark, till in me thine image shine, And lost I am, till thou art mine. "At length I own it cannot be, That I should fit myself for thee, Here now to thee I all resign, Thine is the work, and only thine. "What shall I say thy grace to move? Lord, I am sin, but thou art love!
I offer you this salvation to-night, O, weary, sin-sick soul. Take it, I beseech of you. Let the Sun of Righteousness break in upon you at this hour, and never will you be in darkness again." The man glowed under his theme, and his audience warmed with his impulsive appeal. "Dodd's" soul grew hopeful. All these things promised were the very things he was longing for.
To the sin-sick and sin-blinded man He says, 'Thou shalt be whole, if' or 'I will make thee whole, provided that' what? provided that thou goest to the fountain where He has lodged the healing power. The condition on which sight comes to the blind is compliance with Christ's invitation, 'Come to Me; trust in Me; and thou shalt be whole.
Best of all, every one is given cordial invitation to investigate personally; to satisfy himself beyond a doubt that the God who so wonderfully fed the Israelites in the wilderness in Moses' time, and that the Christ who multiplied the loaves and fishes, who went about healing all manner of divers diseases as well as speaking the word of life to the sin-sick soul, is positively, absolutely, "just the same today."
That remedy is the practical operation of Christianity first of all in our own hearts, and then flowing out in action. I mean especially the method of Jesus, which consisted not of mere teaching but of help which touched not only the issues of the sin-sick soul, but the weakness and want of the body.
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