The great physician!''

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by Thomas Watson 

Christ is the least expensive physician,
he takes no fee. He desires us to bring nothing
to him but broken hearts. And when he has
cured us, he desires us to bestow nothing on
him but our love. 

Christ heals with more ease than any other.
Christ makes the devil go out with a word
(Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look:
Christ's look melted Peter into repentance;
it was a healing look. If Christ does but cast
a look upon the soul he can heal it. 

Christ is the most tender-hearted physician.
He is not more full of skill than sympathy-
'He heals the broken in heart, and binds up
their wounds' (Psalm 147:3). Every groan
of the patient goes to the heart of this
physician. 

Christ never fails of success.
Christ never undertakes to heal
any but he makes a certain cure. 

Other physicians can only cure those who are
sick, but Christ cures those who are dead, 'And
you has he quickened who were dead' (Eph 2:1).
Christ is a physician for the dead- of every
one whom Christ cures, it may be said, 'He
was dead, and is alive again' (Luke 15:32). 

Christ is the most bountiful physician.
Other patients do enrich their physicians,
but here the physician enriches the patient.
Christ elevates all his patients: he not only
cures them but crowns them! (Rev. 2:10).
Christ does not only raise them from the bed,
but to the throne! He gives the sick man not
only health but also heaven!

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