A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Secondly,¹ Would you be prepared for Death; beware then that you do not defer your Repentance one day or hour longer upon any presumption of the continuance of your Life. Death depends not upon the warning of a sickness; God doth not always afford it, but sometimes he doth execution before he Shoots off his ⟨p. 36⟩warning Piece, & why may it not be so with you; however it is possible your sickness may be such as may render you uncapable of doing your last good Office for your Soul: But if it should be otherwise, yet this I am sure of, it is the unfittest time in all your Life; to be then casting up your Accounts when you should be giving of them up, to have your Evidences for Heaven then to clear up to your Souls when you should produce and show them for your support and comfort.

Secondly,¹ Would you be prepared for Death; beware then that you do not defer your Repentance one day or hour longer upon any presumption of the continuance of your Life. Death depends not upon the warning of a sickness; God doth not always afford it, but sometimes he doth execution before he Shoots off his ⟨p. 36⟩warning Piece, & why may it not be so with you; however it is possible your sickness may be such as may render you uncapable of doing your last good Office for your Soul: But if it should be otherwise, yet this I am sure of, it is the unfittest time in all your Life; to be then casting up your Accounts when you should be giving of them up, to have your Evidences for Heaven then to clear up to your Souls when you should produce and shew them for your support and comfort.

1. 1Repentance must not be deferred upon hopes of long Life.