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…

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,

1. 1Deut. 31. 16
2. 2Dan. 12. 2
3. 3Joh. 11. 11

1 Men asleep are at rest, free from all trouble, from all toil and travel; so the dead do rest from their labours, as