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

And, Fourthly. With their Alms, there should go up the Prayers of them that are in Health, as a Memorial before God, that He may keep them in Health. It is a due Course, Psal. XLII. 8. My Prayer is unto the God of my Life. Let the Sickness of any one in a Family, set all the rest a Praying, that they may be Preserved from Sickness: A Praying, Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my Trust: A Praying, Lord, Deal bountifully with thy Servant, that I may Live and Keep thy Word. In thus Praying, we should urge the agreeable Promises of our God; such Promises as we find in the NINETY FIRST PSALM; A Psalm, which may be of Singular Use to us, especially when Epidemical and Pestilential Sicknesses, are formidable among us.

III. When Sickness is in a Family, there is a Duty incumbent upon the Sick themselves, as well as upon the rest in the Family. Perhaps, O Languishing Persons, you ⟨p. 15⟩may hear these Lessons Read unto you, if you are through' Sickness not able your selves to Read them.

III. When Sickness is in a Family, there is a Duty incumbent upon the Sick themselves, as well as upon the rest in the Family. Perhaps, O Languishing Persons, you ⟨p. 15⟩may hear these Lessons Read unto you, if you are thro' Sickness not able your selves to Read them.

First; Repentance! Repentance! That is the Sick Mans main Duty & Interest; tho' tis well if Repentance then come Soon Enough, to Be Good, or to Do any Good. Now to carry on this Repentance, there must be several Actions. If Sickness be come upon you, Examine the Cause of the Sickness, I mean, the Sin that is the Moral Cause of it. When Sickness overtakes us, there is usually some Cause to be enquired after. God will have us to know, That He hath not without a Cause done all that He hath done unto us. [See