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Direct. VII. Guard against repinings and murmurings against the providence of God, CHAP. III. Containing special directions to the Children of God, under sickness or any afflictions, 70 Direct. I. Guard against fainting or desponding under God's afflicting hand, Direct. II. Study to be exemplary in patience and submissive to God under affliction, Direct. III. Be much in the exercise of praise, Direct. IV. Set about actual preparation for death, 89 Direct. V. Study to glorify God, and edify those about you by your speech and behaviour, Direct. VI. Shew your concern for advancing the kingdom of Christ in the rising age, Direct. VII. Labour to be fortified against Satan's temptations in time of sickness,

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CHAP. IV. Containing special directions to the unregenerate when under sickness and affliction, 109 Direct. I. Consider the miserable condition of a Christless person under sore sickness,

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Direct. II. Improve sickness as means of conversion,

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Direct. III, Beware of slighting God's voice in the

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rod, Direct. IV. Reflect upon the sins of your bypast life, and be deeply humbled for them, Direct. V. Flee presently to Christ by a true faith, 116 Direct. VI. Call the elders of the church to pray

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for you, CHAP. V. Containing directions to God's people, when recovered from sickness and distress, Direct. I. Try if affliction hath been sanctified to

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you, Direct. II. Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, Direct. III, Beware of forgetting the Lord's kind

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ousness, which are the genuine effects of sanctified affliction, Direct. V. Be careful to perform these engagements which you come under in time of sick

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CHAP. VI. Containing directions to the unregene rate, when they are recovered from sickness, Direct. I. Examine what are the fruits of your affliction, and if it hath not the marks of that which is unsanctified,

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Direct. II. Consider the danger of not being bet-
tered by sickness,
Direct. III. Admire God's sparing mercy to such
hell-deserving sinners, and be thankful for it,
Direct. IV. Improve sparing mercy in a right

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CHAP. VII. Containing directions to these sick per-
sons who are apparently in a dying condition,
Direct. I. Exert your utmost activity in preparing
to meet with death,
Direct. II. Continue in the exercise of repentance
to the last,
Direct. III. Be mindful of the acts of justice and
charity incumbent on you at this time,
Direct. IV. Labour to overcome the love of life
and fears of death, that you may get willing-
ness to die,
Direct. V. Imitate the ancient worthies, by dying
in faith,
Direct. VI. Set the example of other dying saints
before you, and study to imitate them in their
shining piety and heavenly speeches at their
death,

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Direct. VII. Let dying persons be earnest in pray

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Some meditations and ejaculations, proper for sick

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and dying persons, and especially for a dying

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believer,
Some meditations for drooping believers, when
death is near,

An addition of some further meditations proper
for any sick person in the view of death,
CHAP. VIII. Containing directions to the friends
and neighbours of the sick, who are at present
in health,

Direct. I. Be thankful to God for health, and im-
prove it to his glory,

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Direct. II. Make conscience of visiting the sick,
Direct. III. Deal faithfully with the sick about
their soul,

Direct. IV. Pray with and for the sick,
Petitions for the sick,

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Direct. V. Let your sick friends have suitable
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Direct. VI. Be duly concerned also for the bodies

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Direct. VII. When their sickness doth ensue.in death, behave. Christianly under the dispensation,

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Direct. VIII. Let the sickness and death of others
be a warning to you in time of health, to make
due preparation for the time of sickness and of
dying which is before your hand,
Direct. IX. Let those who are in health set about
the work of repentance, and turning to God in
Christ timeously and quickly; and beware of
delaying this work until the time of sickness,
and of dying,
Some dying words of the late Rev. Mr. John Wil-
lison to his wife and children, found among his
papers after his death,

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AFFLICTED MAN'S COMPANION;

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FOR A FAMILY OR PERSON UNDER AFFLICTION, BY SICKNESS OR OTHERWISE.

INTRODUCTION.

MAN, when he first dropped from his Maker's hands, was a holy and innocent creature, pure from sin, and consequently free from sickness and trouble, enjoying uninterrupted health and prosperity both in body and soul. But no sooner was he tainted with sin, but he became liable to all sorts of miseries temporal, spiritual, and eternal. His soul being the residence of sins and lusts, his body turned the receptacle of sickness and diseases. And, seeing God's own children have the relics of sin and corruption in them, while in this world, they are not to expect exemption from such afflictions; and the infinitely wise God sees meet to make use of bodily distempers to correct the corruptions, and try the graces of his people, and to promote both their spiritual and eternal advantage. Hence it is said of Lazarus, John xi. 3. "Behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." He was beloved, and yet sick. It is no rare thing for the dearest of God's saints to be put to chatter like cranes, and mourn like doves, by reason of sore sickness; as Hezekiah did, Isa. xxxviii. 14. Sanctified and healthy souls may be matched with weak and sickly bodies, as was Gaius, 3 John 2. withstanding the case is sometimes most trying and exercising to the best of God's people; and they are never more ready to question God's love, or quarrel with A

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