A27107:185
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
After that the aged man hath conflicted with long sickness, and having endured the brunt of pain, should now expect some ease, in comes Death (nature's ⟨p. 46⟩slaughter-man, God's Curse and Hell's Purveyor) and looks the Old Man grim, and black in the face; and neither pitying his age, nor regarding his long endured dolours, will not be hired to forbear either for silver or gold; nay, he will not take, to spare his life,1 Skin for Skin, and all that the old Man hath, but batters all the principal parts of his Body, and arrests him to appear before the terrible Judge.
AFter that the aged man hath conflicted with long sickness, and having indured the brunt of pain, should now expect some ease, in comes Death (nature's ⟨p. 46⟩slaughter-man, God's Curse and Hell's Purveyor) and looks the Old Man grim, and black in the face; and neither pitying his age, nor regarding his long endured dolours, will not be hired to forbear either for silver or gold; nay, he will not take, to spare his life,1 Skin for Skin, aud all that the old Man hath, but batters all the principal parts of his Body, and arrests him to appear before the terrible Judge.
- 1Job 1.
And as thinking that the Old man will not dispatch to go with him fast enough, Lord! how many darts of Calamities doth he shoot through him, Stitches, Aches, Cramps, Fevers, Obstructions, Rheums, Flegm, Colic, Stone, Wind, &c.
And as thinking that the Old man will not dispatch to go with him fast enough, Lord! how many darts of Calamities doth he shoot through him, Stiches, Aches, Cramps, Fevers, Obstructions, Rheums, Flegm, Cholick, Stone, Wind, &c.