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…

1 In visiting thy sick Neighbour take occasion to think of thine own mortality, ¹and proneness to fall into Sicknesses and Diseases: for that which befalls one man may befall another, in that we all carry about us, as mortal, so frail bodies, subject to the like calamities; which the Lord knows how soon may befall any of us.

1 In visiting thy sick Neighbour take occasion to think of thine own mortality, ¹and proneness to fall into Sicknesses and Diseases: for that which befalls one man may befall another, in that we all carry about us, as mortal, so frayl bodies, subject to the like calamities; which the Lord knows how soon may befall any of us.

1. 1Scito omnem conditionem versabilem esse & quicquid in alium incurrit, posse in te quoque ineurrere. Sen. de tranq.

2 Lift up thine heart in thankfulness unto God, for that health and strength of body he is pleased still to continue unto thee. Health is a greater mercy than most do imagine. Ask the sick man what he thinks of health, and he will tell thee, it is the greatest of Temporal mercies,¹ and in it self a mercy not to be valued; the truth is, all Mercies are prized by the wanting of them, more than by the having and enjoying them. As no body admires the Sun but when it is eclipsed; so neither doth any esteem health, but when by sickness they are deprived thereof,

2 Lift up thine heart in thankfulness unto God, for that health and strength of body he is pleased still to continue unto thee. Health is a greater mercy than most doe imagine. Ask the sick man what hee thinks of health, and he will tell thee, it is the greatest of Temporal mercies,