Certain considerations against the vanities of this world, and the terrors of death / VVritten by Doctor John Hewit, and delivered to a friend, a little before his death on Tower Hill, June the 8. 1658.

Certain considerations against the vanities of this world, and the terrors of death / VVritten by Doctor John Hewit, and delivered to a friend, a little before his death on Tower Hill, June the 8. 1658. Go pale-fac'd paper, tell the world that I, do die in peace and perfect charity.

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Certain considerations against the vanities of this world, and the terrors of death / VVritten by Doctor John Hewit, and delivered to a friend, a little before his death on Tower Hill, June the 8. 1658. Go pale-fac'd paper, tell the world that I, do die in peace and perfect charity.