The afflicted man's companion, or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness or any other distress : with directions to the sick, both under and after affliction ; also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them ; and likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death ; and how to be exercised at the time of dying ; to which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers ; the choice sayings of eminent dying saints ; the author's last advice to his wife and children : and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death / by the Reverend Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee ; very necessary for all families.
- John Willison
- Date:
- 1796
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The afflicted man's companion, or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness or any other distress : with directions to the sick, both under and after affliction ; also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them ; and likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death ; and how to be exercised at the time of dying ; to which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers ; the choice sayings of eminent dying saints ; the author's last advice to his wife and children : and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death / by the Reverend Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee ; very necessary for all families. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the fevereftof all others. External judgments are God's rods, but ipiritual judgments are his iv/orc •:■>, which pierce the very foul. Blindnefs of mind, eis of heart, fearednels of confcience, vile affec- tions, arid a reprobate fenfc, are the very forerunner, of hel] and damnation. Thefe who arc impenitent unfruitful under outward adhesions, have 1 to tremble leil God be provoked to inflict thefc /pi- ritual judgments. 5/ '.!y, Be aTured, though God ip.ire yon long, yet the glafs of his forbearance will at length run oat. God's patience towards fmnners' hath a term and bound, over which it will not pafs. The time will come, when a long fuffering God will at laft fay, My fpirit (hall no longer Ih'ive ; and the angel will cry, as in llev, xiv. 7. u The hour of God's judgment is com;. You that abide God's patience, a id prefume upon it, his treaty of peace will end with you in a little, and the matter of the hoafe will rife up and ihut to the door. Then patience will eofne down, and jultice will afcend the ftage, and trample upon, and triumph over, all that aoufe di- vine patience. Sodom was a wonders of God's pa- e for a long time; but now it is a laliing mt>:iu- I of his anger. (tthly. If you be not bettered by G^S {paring mercies, then your preservation at prefent will be nothing but a reiervation for the day of God's wrath. And the longer your cup of iin is a filling, the fuller ihall the cup of God's wrath be for you ; by your impenitence and abide of God's patience, you treafure up Wrath for yourfelves againft the day of wrath, Rom. ii. 4. and though you be delivered from fome judgments, you are referred for wbrie, yea, feven times worfe, according to Lev. xxvi. 1?, 24. Nay. there is a ruining blow defigned a'gamit you, both foul and body, as loon as your cup is full ; and the axe is already laid to the root of the tree, h. iii. 10. One blow of God's axe v. ill c Lit you off forever. Ma](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21164538_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


