Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

2 Not to faint under our losses, crosses, and afflictions, as when Children dye, then the spirit of the Parent to dye also; or when ⟨p. 60⟩the Husband dyeth, then the spirit of the Wife to dye also; this is a fainting under the burden of our afflictions,¹ as if they were unsupportable, not to be endured, as the notation of the Greek word implieth.

2 Not to faint under our losses, crosses, and afflictions, as when Children dye, then the spirit of the Parent to dye also; or when ⟨p. 60⟩the Husband dyeth, then the spirit of the Wife to dye also; this is a fainting under the burthen of our afflictions,¹ as if they were unsupportable, not to be indured, as the notation of the Greek word implieth.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.

2 If you would bear your afflictions Christian-like, bear them with patience and silence, according to the example of David, who when God laid his hand upon his back, he presently laid his hand upon his mouth, as appeareth by his own expression, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.¹

1. 1Psal. 39. 9