Excerpt from The Sick Man Visited: And Furnished With Instructions, Meditations, and Prayers, for Putting Him in Mind of His Change; For Supporting Him Under His Distemper; And for Preparing Him For, and Carrying Him Through, His Last Conflict With Death T H E RE is none who is not continually liahle to fichnefs and death; and who ought not therefore to he always furnijhed with patience and fuhmiflon to the Divine Will under the former, and to he every day in a readine/s' for the other. And, to afui the Chri/tian reader in order to they? Weighty purpzyes, that fo he may he happy hoth here and hereafter, is the defign of the following tra 't. But then it is incumhent upon] him, to apply what is faid in it to his own foul inafmuch as without this it tit/l needs prove injignijicant and ufile/s; the hefi advice that can he given in any cafe, heing of no advantage, where it is not attended to. A man may pleafie him jilf with what he hears, or reads, and it may ferve him for amzjement and diverflon 5 hut, if this he all the a]? He makes of it, he gro/ly deceives his own fiul, if he thinh however to he advantaged hy it. Such an one is hut lihe the man fpohen ofhy St.james, who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.