The great, and glorious end for which God decreed the after-being of sin, is His own glory: and the ends subordinate thereunto are not a few. Particularly, God decreed the futurition of sin: 1. That He might have occasion of glorifying His infinite wisdom, love, and grace in the redemption and salvation of a company of lost sinners through the death and sufferings of His own dear Son. 2. That His patience and long suffering in bearing with and forbearing sinners, might be magnified, admired, and adored. 3. That He might be honoured and glorified by the faith and repentance of His people, and their walking humbly with Him. 4. That His justice might be illustriously displayed and glorified in the eternal damnation of reprobate sinners for their own sins and abominations, sin being the cause of their damnation, though not of their reprobation.
Thomas Boston

SICKNESS

SICKNESS

SICKNESS

  1. Sent by God # De 28:59-61 32:39 2Sa 12:15 Ac 12:23
  2. The devil sometimes permitted to inflict # Job 2:6,7 Lu 9:39 13:16
  3. Often brought on by intemperance # Ho 7:5
  4. Often sent as a punishment of sin # Le 26:14-16 2Ch 21:12-15 1Co 11:30
  5. One of God’s four sore judgments on a guilty land # Eze 14:19-21
  6. GOD 6a) Promises to heal

    # Ex 23:25 2Ki 20:5

6b) Heals # De 32:39 Ps 103:3 Isa 38:5,9 6c) Exhibits his mercy in healing # Php 2:27 6d) Exhibits his power in healing # Lu 5:17 6e) Exhibits his love in healing # Isa 38:17 6f) Often manifests saving grace to sinners during # Job 33:19-24 Ps 107:17-21 6g) Permits saints to be tried by # Job 2:5,6 6h) Strengthens saints in # Ps 41:3 6i) Comforts saints in # Ps 41:3 6j) Hears the prayers of those in # Ps 30:2 107:18-20 6k) Preserves saints in time of # Ps 91:3-7 6l) Abandons the wicked to # Jer 34:17 6m) Persecutes the wicked by # Jer 29:18 7) Healing of, lawful on the Sabbath # Lu 13:14-16 8) Christ compassionate those in # Isa 53:4 Mt 8:16,17 9) CHRIST HEALED 9a) Being present # Mr 1:31 Mt 4:23 9b) Not being present # Mt 8:13 9c) By imposition of hands # Mr 6:5 Lu 13:13 9d) With a touch # Mt 8:3 9e) Through the touch of his garment # Mt 14:35,36 Mr 5:27-34 9f) With a word # Mt 8:8,13 10) Faith required in those healed of, by Christ # Mt 9:28,29 Mr 5:34 10:52 11) Often incurable by human means # De 28:27 2Ch 21:18 12) The Apostles were endued with power to heal # Mt 10:1 Mr 16:18,20 13) THE POWER OF HEALING 13a) One of the miraculous gifts bestowed on the early Church # 1Co 12:9,30 Jas 5:14,15 14) SAINTS 14a) Acknowledge that, comes from God # Ps 31:1-8 Isa 38:12,15 14b) Are resigned under # Job 2:10 14c) Mourn under, with prayer # Isa 38:14 14d) Pray for recovery from # Isa 38:2,3 14e) Ascribe recovery from, to God # Isa 38:20 14f) Praise God for recovery from # Ps 103:1-3 Isa 38:19 Lu 17:15 14g) Thank God publicly for recovery form # Isa 38:20 Ac 3:8 14h) Feel for others in # Ps 35:13 14i) Visit those in # Mt 25:36 15) Visiting those in, an evidence of belonging to Christ # Mt 25:34,36,40 16) Pray for those afflicted with # Ac 28:8 Jas 5:14,15 17) God’s aid should be sought in # 2Ch 16:12 18) THE WICKED 18a) Have much sorrow, with # Ec 5:17 18b) Forsake those in # 1Sa 30:13 18c) Visit not those in # Mt 25:43 19) Not visiting those in, an evidence of not belonging to Christ # Mt 25:43,45 20) Illustrative of sin # Le 13:45,46 Isa 1:5 Jer 8:22 Mt 9:12