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

1. That thou hast now received from God, as it were, another life. Spend it therefore to the honour of God, in newness of life. Let thy sin die with thy sickness: but live thou by grace to holiness.

2. Be not the more secure, that thou art restored to health, neither insult in thy self, that thou hast escaped Death; but think rather, that God (seeing how unprepared thou wast) hath of his mercy heard thy Prayer, spared thee, and given thee some little longer time of respite; that thou mayest both amend thy life, and put thy self in a better readiness against the time that he shall call for thee without further delay, out of this World. For though thou hast escaped this, it may be thou shalt not escape the next sickness.

2. Be not the more secure, that thou art restored to health, neither insult in thy self, that thou hast escaped Death; but think rather, that God (seeing how unprepared thou wast) hath of his mercy heard thy Prayer, spared thee, and given thee some little longer time of respite; that thou maist both amend thy life, and put thy self in a better readiness against the time that he shall call for thee without further delay, out of this World. For though thou hast escaped this, it may be thou shalt not escape the next sickness.

3. Consider how fearful a reckoning thou hadst made before the Judgment-seat of Christ, by this time, if thou hadst died of this Sickness: Spend therefore the time that remains, so, as that ⟨p. 387⟩thou mayst be able to make a more cheerful account of thy life, when it must be expired indeed.

3. Consider how fearful a reckoning thou hadst made before the Judgment-seat of Christ, by this time, if thou hadst died of this Sickness: Spend therefore the time that remains, so, as that