Wholesome words. A visit of advice, given unto families that are visited with sickness;…

YOU are so well Instructed, O our Afflicted Neighbours, that you cannot be ignorant of this Truth; Sickness and Weakness carry's in it, very strong Obligations to Duty: And Sickness in a Family bespeaks Duty from no less than all the Family. When Sickness comes into any Family, tho' but One Person should be Visited, it administers a Manifold Occasion for Serious Religion to be Exercised by the whole Family, even by every Person belonging unto it. We have thought it therefore a part of our Pastoral Watchfulness over you, our Dear Flock, to put into your Hands, (for, alas, how many do Forget the Exhortations delivered by us, when we manage the Public Exhortations!) a Brief, a Plain, a Faithful Monitor of the Duty, whereto the Voice of God by Sickness among us, is ⟨p. 2⟩aloud calling of us. These are the Admonitions, whereto your Attention is now demanded in the Name & Fear of God.

YOU are so well Instructed, O our Afflicted Neighbours, that you cannot be ignorant of this Truth; Sickness and Weakness carry's in it, very strong Obligations to Duty: And Sickness in a Family bespeaks Duty from no less than all the Family. When Sickness comes into any Family, tho' but One Person should be Visited, it administers a Manifold Occasion for Serious Religion to be Exercised by the whole Family, even by every Person belonging unto it. We have tho't it therefore a part of our Pastoral Watchfulness over you, our Dear Flock, to put into your Hands, (for, alas, how many do Forget the Exhortations delivered by us, when we manage the Publick Exhortations!) a Brief, a Plain, a Faithful Monitor of the Duty, whereto the Voice of God by Sickness among us, is ⟨p. 2⟩aloud calling of us. These are the Admonitions, whereto your Attention is now demanded in the Name & Fear of God.

I. There is a Duty incumbent upon the whole Family, even upon every Person that can understand their Duty, when Sickness comes upon any Person in the Family. If any One Person in a Family be under any Sickness, there is an Holy Improvement of it, and an Improvement in Holiness on it, whereof every Soul in the Family should be studious. Particularly;