Synthesized answer
The passages do not directly address "practical implications" in a general sense, but they discuss implications in specific contexts of medicine, governance, and spiritual life. In bodily diseases and state affairs, the implication is that when there is time for consultation and written prescription, proceedings can be open, candid, and avowable, which brings satisfaction and avoids rash or covert actions [1][2]. However, in urgent cases—such as a disease requiring immediate bloodletting or a popular commotion needing martial law—there is no time for consultation, and necessary actions must be taken without delay [2][3].
In spiritual matters, the passages imply that fear of God should be used rightly: to be directed by it, not dejected by it, and to walk in it without weakness or laziness [5]. The text also notes that God renews mercy hourly, but humans often refuse to understand, lest they be converted and healed [4]. Beyond these specific contexts, the passages do not provide a broader discussion of practical implications.
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hat the proceedings may be apert, and ingenuous, and candid, and avowable, for that gives satisfaction and acquiescence. They who have received my anatomy of myself consult, and end their consultation in prescribing, and in prescribing physic; proper and convenient remedy: for if they should come in again, and chide me for some disorder, that had occasioned and induced, or that had hastened and exalted this sickness, or if they should begin to write now rules for my dict and exercise when I were well, this werc to antedate or to postdate their consultation, not to give physic. It were rather…
, inconsiderately done; and then they prescribe, they write, so there is nothing covertly, disguisedly, unavowedly done. In bodily diseases it is not always so; sometimes, as soon as the physician's foot is in the chamber, his knife is in the patient's arm; the disease would not allow a minute's forbearing of blood, nor prescribing of other remedies. In states and matter of government it is so too; they are sometimes surprised with such accidents, as that the magistrate asks not what may be done by law, but does that which must necessarily be done in that case. But it is a degree of good in…
he cure of that, though he pretermit (so far as to intermit) the cure of the disease itself. Is it not so in states too? Sometimes the insolency of those that are great put the people into commotions; the great disease, and the greatest danger to the head, is the insolency of the great ones; and yet they execute martial law, they come to present executions upon the people, whose commotion was indeed but a symptom, but an accident of the main disease; but this symptom, grown so violent, would allow no time for a consultation. Is it not so in the accidents of the diseases of our mind too? Is it…
case; we are all prodigal sons, and not disinherited; we have received our portion, and mispent it, not been denied it. We are God's tenants here, and yet here, he, our landlord, pays us rents; not yearly nor quarterly, but hourly and quarterly; every minute he renews his mercy, but we will not understand, lest that we should be converted, and he should heal us . I. PRAYER.
ently, O my sweet, my easy God, dost thou unentangle me in any scruple arising out of the consideration of thls my fear! Is not this that which thou intendest, when thou sayest, The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him ; the secret, the mystery of the right use of fear. Dost thou not mean this when thou sayest, we shall understand the Sear of the Lord ? Have it, and have benefit by it; have it, and stand under it; be directed by it, and not be dejected with it. And dost thou not propose that church for our example, when thou sayest, the church of Judea walked in the fear of God ;…