Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

§. 1. His Purpose and manner of Life, is Exactly Described, in a Book about Holiness, which was Written by him, Twenty Years before he Died. In that Book he offers Admirable Rules for ⟨p. 181⟩Growth towards a Perfection of Holiness in the Fear of GOD: which he Introduces with saying, I shall not set before you Directions impossible to be followed, or heavy Burdens which I would be loth myself to touch. No, we saw his Rules Livelily Exemplified. But his Daily Course may be enquired after. Besides his Patient Continuance, in that stroke of Well-doing, which lay in his course of setting apart whole Days for the Religion of the Closet, and which he continued until the last Year of his Life was coming on: His Daily Course was This: And what a Grateful Spectacle to Angels in it!

§. 1. His Purpose and manner of Life, is Exactly Described, in a Book about Holiness, which was Written by him, Twenty Years before he Died. In that Book he offers Admirable Rules for ⟨p. 181⟩Growth towards a Perfection of Holiness in the Fear of GOD: which he Introduces with saying, I shall not set before you Directions impossible to be followed, or heavy Burdens which I would be lothe myself to touch. No, we saw his Rules Livelily Exemplified. But his Daily Course may be enquired after. Besides his Patient Continuance, in that stroke of Well-doing, which lay in his course of setting apart whole Days for the Religion of the Closet, and which he continued until the last Year of his Life was coming on: His Daily Course was This: And what a Grateful Spectacle to Angels in it!

In the Morning repairing to his Study, (where his Custom was to sit up very late, even until Midnight, and perhaps after it) he deliberately Read a Chapter, and made a Prayer, and them plied what of Reading and Writing he had before him. At Nine a Clock he came down, and Read a Chapter and made a Prayer, with his Family. He then returned unto the Work of the Study. Coming down to Dinner, he quickly went up again, and begun the Afternoon with another Prayer. There he went on with the Work of the Study till the Evening. Then with another Prayer he again went unto his Father; after which he did more at the Work of the Study. At Nine a Clock he came down to his Family-Sacrifices. Then he went up again to the Work of the Study; which anon he Concluded with another Prayer; And so he betook himself unto his Repose.