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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…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
CHAP. XVIII.
Of Dying well.
IF thou apprehendest thy Disease to be mortal, and that it is like to be thy last Sickness, then it will be thy wisdom to prepare thy self after the best manner thou canst for death.
For thy better help herein, take these Directions.
I. Set thine House in order; I mean, settle thine outward estate, by making thy Will; which will no way hasten thy death (as many foolishly do imagine) but rather put thee into a better capacity, to set thy Soul in order for a blessed departure. And as God hath blest thee with an estate, so fail not to give some proportionable part thereof for the relief of the poor members of Jesus Christ. Though that charity which is exercised in a mans life-time is questionless the best, and the most acceptable unto God,