XXII AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO THE READER. but that this must be done with discretion as well as piety, if what he says and teaches is to have the right flavor. When medicine is to be taken by a sickly infant, the best way is to give it first to the nurse, from whom the child imbibes it insensibly with her milk. This duty of the nurse the preacher must often perform, and convert into milk the medicines he prescribes; I mean he must administer them in an agreeable form and courteous way, in the right season, and at the proper time. My intentions at least were good, and though the success may not in every case correspond with the pious reader's wish, he will yet take the will for the deed, as becomes a Christian, and out of his own fulness supply my lack. The Lord bless and prosper all the good and well-intentioned labors of his faithful ministers, and grant that they may prove neither fruitless nor unrequited! MAGDEBURG, 1671. M. CHRISTIAN SCRIVER. |