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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
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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.
2 Persuade the sick Party to settle his estate, by making his Will, (if he have not done it before) that so he may with more freedom wholly mind the spiritual good and welfare of his soul. This counsel did the Prophet Isaiah give unto King Hezekiah, 1when he was first struck with sickness.
2 Perswade the sick Party to settle his estate, by making his Will, (if he have not done it before) that so hee may with more freedome wholly mind the spiritual good and welfare of his soul. This counsel did the Prophet Isaiah give unto King Hezekiah, 1when hee was first struck with sickness.
3 If thou apprehendest his Disease to be dangerous, flatter him not with a hope of recovery, lest thereby thou betray his soul to eternal death; but deal faithfully with him, by declaring unto him his weak and dangerous condition, and advising him, as to think of death, so to prepare for it, telling him, that the fitter he is to dye, the fitter he will be to live, if the Lord should add more days to his life.
3 If thou apprehendest his Disease to be dangerous, flatter him not with a hope of recovery, lest thereby thou betray his soul to eternal death; but deal faithfully with him, by declaring unto him his weak and dangerous condition, and advising him, as to think of death, so to prepare for it, telling him, that the fitter hee is to dye, the fitter he will be to live, if the Lord should adde more days to his life.