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

Secondly. And yet, Prepare for Sickness! The Sickness of One in a Family, bids all the rest, Prepare to be Sick. The Feeble Voice of the Sick, it as Notably, as if they should Lift up their Voice like a Trumpet, Speaks unto us, that; Isa. XL.6. All Flesh is Grass, and all the Goodliness thereof, is as the Flower of the Field. Sickness in a Family, is a Lecture upon Humane Frailty: And the Language of it, is Oh! Do with thy Might ⟨p. 11⟩what thy Hand finds to do, while thou art in thy Health; and leave not unto a Time of Sickness, the doing of those things, for which there is no Time in Sickness! If it be Necessary for us, to make, A WILL, that Right and Peace, may not be injured when we are Dead, a Sick Person in a Family will show us, that we should not have this to do, when we come to be Sick. But above all, Tis Necessary for us, to make a Timely Provision for Eternity. This PROVISION is made, How? By Consenting to every Article, in the Covenant of Grace; By Submitting to the Lord Jesus Christ, as our Priest, our Prophet, and our King; By Accepting of, the Righteousness which our Surety has Wrought out for us, that we may therein stand Righteous before the Judge of All; And By Complying with the Holy Spirit, who offers to Renew us, and Possess us, and Com••rt us to God, and Unite us to Christ, and Rescue us from Sin, and Prepare us for Heaven. Immortal Soul; Necessity is laid upon thee to do these things, and Woe unto thee, if thou do them not. But will a Sick Bed afford a Proper Season, for the doing of such things? It may be, you have not heard, ⟨p. 12⟩(as I have) the Miserables upon a Sick Bed, Crying out with inexpressible Anguish; In my Health, I made no Preparation for Death! And, O Sir, It is not now too Late? Is it not now too Late? But the Sickness in your Family, may terribly inculcate this Caution upon you; Don't, Oh! Don't put off your Turning to God, until you come to be Sick: You'll make Poor, Mean, Sickly, and most Uncertain Work of it, if you do.

Secondly. And yet, Prepare for Sickness! The Sickness of One in a Family, bids all the rest, Prepare to be Sick. The Feeble Voice of the Sick, it as Notably, as if they should Lift up their Voice like a Trumpet, Speaks unto us, that;