The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

1. That seeing thy days are numbered,¹ there is one more of thy number spent:² and thou art now the nearer to thy end by a day.

1. THat seeing thy days are numbred,¹ there is one more of thy number spent:² and thou art now the nearer to thy end by a day.

1. 1Job 14. 5.
2. 2Vive memor quàm sis aevi brevis. Hor.

2. Sit down a while before thou goest to bed, and consider with thy self what ⟨p. 186⟩memorable thing thou hast seen, heard, or read that day, more than thou sawest, heardest, or knewest before; and make thy best use of them; but especially, call to mind, what sin thou hast committed that day against God or Man, and what good thou hast omitted; and humble thy self for both. If thou findest that thou hast done any goodness, acknowledge it to be God's grace, and give him the glory: and count that day^* lost wherein thou hast not done some good.²

2. Sit down a while before thou goest to bed, and consider with thy self what ⟨p. 186⟩