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…

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.

4 If thou perceive him to be ignorant, instruct him in the Principles of Religion, especially touching mans miserable condition by Nature, and the state of redemption by Jesus Christ.

5 If thou perceivest that he hath not a due sense of his Sins, endeavour to affect him with a sense and apprehension of his Sins, and the heinousness of them; as also of his miserable condition in ⟨p. 71⟩regard of the punishments due unto him for the same, which are all Judgements and Plagues here, and eternal death and damnation with the Devils and damned in Hell.

5 If thou perceivest that he hath not a due sence of his Sins, endeavour to affect him with a sence and apprehension of his Sins, and the hainousness of them; as also of his miserable condition in ⟨p. 71⟩