Volume 8, Sermon 6 on Galatians 6:2
Bodily infirmities and diseases are in themselves a burden, however providence may intend them for our good, and finally overrule them for our spiritual advantage. Health is a great mercy, without which many of the enjoyments of life would lose much of their sweetness; and sickness cannot but be considered in itself as a great affliction. Music cannot delight the ear, the most pleasing objects the eye, nor the richest viands the taste of a sick man. He finds but little pleasure in the company of his dearest friends; and while he is shut out from public ordinances, he is often unfitted for the devotions of the closet, how much soever he delighted in them before. Job complained that wearisome nights were appointed to him; and the apostle Paul^ wishes for his beloved Gaius, that he might prosper and be in health, even as his soul prospered. It is the lot however of some pious people to endure heavy loads of sickness and distress, and some here are who scarcely know what it is to enjoy a singl day of health. They have been afflicted from their youth up, and are laid on beds of languishing, until the graves are ready for them.
*This should be John
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