The Sick Man Visited: And Furnished with Instructions, Meditations, and Prayers, for Putting Him in Mind of His Change; For Supporting Him Under His Distemper; And for Preparing Him For, and Carrying Him Through, His Last Conflict with Death

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T H E RE is none who is not continually liahle to fichnefs and death; and who ought not therefore to he always furnijhed with patience and fuhmiflon to the Divine Will under the former, and to he every day in a readine/s' for the other. And, to afui the Chri/tian reader in order to they? Weighty purpzyes, that fo he may he happy hoth here and hereafter, is the defign of the following traé't. But then it is incumhent upon] him, to apply what is faid in it to his own foul inafmuch as without this it tit/l needs prove injignijicant and ufile/s; the hefi advice that can he given in any cafe, heing of no advantage, where it is not attended to. A man may pleafie him jilf with what he hears, or reads, and it may ferve him for amzjement and diverflon 5 hut, if this he all the a]? He makes of it, he gro/ly deceives his own fiul, if he thinh however to he advantaged hy it. Such an one is hut lihe the man fpohen ofhy St.james, who.

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