Brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman, Esq. M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the public dispensary, and to the Fever Institution, London, and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh.

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman, Esq. M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the public dispensary, and to the Fever Institution, London, and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can he know them, be- cause they are spiritually discerned.” Por two or three days he shewed increasing interest in the subject of religion; and I read to him continual- ly the Scriptures, and other books which seemed to me best calculated to give him the information he thirsted for. When I went down into his room a few mornings after, he said, 64 It is quite impossible to describe to you the change which has taken place in my mind : I feel as if a new world was opened to me, and all the in- terests and pursuits of this have faded into nothing in comparison with it. They seem so mean, and paltry, and insignificant, that my blindness in living so long immersed in them, and devoted to them, is quite in- conceivable and astonishing to myself.” He often ex- pressed in the strongest terms, and with many tears, his deep repentance, and his abhorrence of himself for his former sinful life and rebellion against God ; but he seemed to have from the first so clear a view of the all- sufficiency of the Saviour’s atonement, and of the Chris- tian scheme of salvation, as freed him at once from that distrust of forgiveness which is so apt to afflict persons at the first sight of their sins, and of the purity and holiness of him “ with whom they have to do.” The self-abasing views which he entertained of himself neces- sarily enhanced his sense of the pardoning love and mercy of God in Christ Jesus, thus graciously extended to him; and which he felt so strongly, that he was filled with the liveliest emotions of gratitude and joy, and in this happy state continued for several days. He soon, however, experienced an afflicting reverse of feeling. One evening I left him to visit a near rela- tive, at that time confined to her room in a precarious