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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![by trifling away your time, flighting his motions and venturing on tins againfl light ? O then beware of burdening his patience any more : but diligently harken to every motion of God's ipirit, and of your own conference for the time to come. You have much work to do and but little time to do it in , therefore lay hold on every opportunity for carrying it on. The conlideration of the much time you have already loll and mhTpent, fhould make you the more diligent in what remaineth. How much of it have you lolt in youth ? how much in ignorance ? how much more in negligence? how much in work]- lineis? how much in paflimes ? how much in id!e words ? how much in actual Tins and provocations againfl God? and now it may be near the evening of your day. And will you not fpend the evening (which-God is mercifully lengthening out) with ex- traordinary care and diligence? If a traveller lofe the beginning of the day, he mufl travel the farter in the evening, otherv/ife he may fall ihort of his jonrney, and have his lodging to feek when night comes. Paul had millpent much of the beginning of his life; and this couiidei-ation (when his eyes were opened) did ftir him up to be the more diligent in the iervice of God, lb that he was more zealous than any of the reft of the apoftles. O man, follow his exam- ple, and trifle no longer in the work of God. Art thou not convinced thou haft fquandered away e- nough of this precioi.s treafure of time already ? And wilt thou alio miflpend and throw away the little that remains ? Gh ! be not fo foolift. III. Be careful to raze all falfe foundations, and build your hopes of falvation, upon the only Aire rock, Jefus Chrift. Let it not difcourage thee to dig to the foundation, that fo much of thy day is loft; for it is better to do it late than never. Re- member how miferableis the condition of thathoufe which is built upon the land, Matth. vii. 27. For when the flood comes, and the florm arifeth, and beats upon it, great and difmal will the fall of that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21164538_0144.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
