Page 205 CHAP. I. First reflection which a sick person should make upon his affliction, that it is the will of GOD—A prayer, 215 CHAP. III. Third reflection, it is possible God has designed our sickness to detach us from earth, 227 Chap. IV. Fourth reflection, it is very possible that God has deprived us of our health because we make a 232 239 CHAP. VI. Reply to an objection, whether it is proper that a sick person should desire and pray to God, and • 247 a CHAP. VII. Of remedies and other care which should be 253 CHAP. VIII. Last reflection, the sickness by which we are attacked may be mortal, or may become so, 265 BOOK IV. CHAP. I. First duty of a man who would prepare him- 275 A prayer, CHAP. II. He should assure himself whether he has made his peace with God, or whether he has yet to 283 CHAP. III. Duties of a Christian, who upon strict exa mination, hopes he has reason to believe himself one of 291 A prayer, CHAP. IV. Second order of duties -- Meditation, 300 CHAP. VI. What should be the duty of those who after - - CHAP. VII. What is to be done by him who supposes either that he is or may be in a state of sin and condem- CHAP. VIII. Two truths in particular which should not be doubted by the sinner who labors under the influence of an evil conscience- - Meditation upon the mercy of CHAP. IX. That the sinner convinced of his dangerous CHAP. X. What a dying man should do for his conver- CHAP. XI. What should be the repentance of a dying CHAP. XII. How we should be employed after doing all 386 THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS: OR THE WAY OF HOLY DYING. BOOK I. WHERE IT IS CONSIDERED WHAT PROPERLY DESERVES THE NAME OF A GOOD DEATH. How shocking must thy summons be, O Death! THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. CHAPTER I. THAT NOTHING IS MORE RARE THAN A GOOD DEATH. THE CAUSE OF THIS. - PLAN OF THE WORK, no NOTHING is more common than death thing more rare than to die well. The first of these truths is incontestible, and we shall not doubt the second if we consider, that as salvation is a necessary and inseparable consequence of a good death; so if the greater part of men died the death of the righteous, the greater part would obtain salvation. But far from this ; we know the number of those who are saved, bears no proportion to that of those who perish; since we are assured there are but "few who enter in at the strait gate," and that the multitude are to be found at the “wide gate,” and in the "broad road” of destruction. · We should, therefore, admit that a good death is unusual, and that the greater part of mankind |