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…

How should the consideration thereof stir thee up to labour for the true riches, and spiritual clothing, I mean the saving graces of Gods Spirit, and the robe of Christs Righteousness, and then thou shalt not go out naked, but adorned and enriched.

How should the consideration thereof stir thee up to labour for the true riches, and spiritual cloathing, I mean the saving graces of Gods Spirit, and the robe of Christs Righteousness, and then thou shalt not goe out naked, but adorned and enriched.

As thou art laying thy self down in thy bed, let the bed mind thee of thy grave, thy sheets mind thee of thy winding-sheet, and thy sleep mind thee of death, for death is but a kind of sleep; sleep is a short death, and death is a long sleep: Hence Sleep and Death are often put the one for the other in Scripture,^{1 23}and death is often set out by sleep. That thou mayest lengthen out this meditation, think of the several resemblances between Sleep and Death; as,

As thou art laying thy self down in thy bed, let the bed mind thee of thy grave, thy sheets mind thee of thy winding-sheet, and thy sleep mind thee of death, for death is but a kind of sleep; sleep is a short death, and death is a long sleep: Hence Sleep and Death are often put the one for the other in Scripture,^{1 23}and death is often set out by sleep. That thou maist lengthen out this meditation, think of the several resemblances between Sleep and Death; as,