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 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,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,

1. 1Carendo magis quam habendo. Sol nisi cum deficit spectatorem non habet. Seneca,

3 Labour to be compassionately affected with the miseries and afflictions of thy brother, ¹for as Job speaketh, To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend. Which duty is often urged and pressed in Scripture,² as by the Apostle Paul, Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep; and by the Apostle Peter, in this phrase,³