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…

II. Send for some godly Minister, or experienced Christian, to advise thee about setting thy Soul in order, in reference to thy great change. This direction the Apostle James giveth, for saith he, Is any sick among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him. ¹And this I would advise thee to do in the first place, not putting it off to the last, when thine understanding and memory begin to fail thee, as the practice of the most is, who when the Physician hath done with them, and in a manner given them over, then send for the Divine to begin with them, as if a short Prayer, and a few words of Ghostly counsel, were enough to send them to Heaven.

II. Send for some godly Minister, or experienced Christian, to advise thee about setting thy Soul in order, in reference to thy great change. This direction the Apostle Iames giveth, for saith he, Is any sick among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him. ¹And this I would advise thee to doe in the first place, not putting it off to the last, when thine understanding and memory begin to fayl thee, as the practice of the most is, who when the Physician hath done with them, and in a manner given them over, then send for the Divine to begin with them, as if a short Prayer, and a few words of Ghostly counsel, were enough to send them to Heaven.

1. 1Jam. 5. 14

III. Labour to make, or rather to renew, thy peace with God; for though the making of thy peace with God ought not to be put off to thy Death-bed, yet must it then be renewed in an especial manner, as being the last time of doing it. In order thereunto,