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A57574	Early religion, or, The way for a young man to remember his Creator proposed in a sermon preach'd upon the death of Mr. Robert Linager, a young gentleman, who left this world, Octob. 26, 1682, with an account of some passages of his life and death / by T. Rogers.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.; Veel, Edward, 1632?-1708.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1849; ESTC R27563	39,498	63

The Care that our Creator takes of us in this World should engage us to remember him When he thought fit to tye the Marriage-knot between Martal and Immortal the Body and the Soul like an indulgent kind Father he before-hand provided all Accommodations that might be for the mutual Comfort of the loving Couple and is it not fit we should remember so great a Benefactor so kind a Friend He is our Landlord we his Tenants that hold all that we have on his Grant and shall we not acknowledg his Dominion and Soveraignty and pay him with delight this small and easy Tribute His Love to us surpasses the Love of Men or Women He lets us still abide in these Houses of Clay though we run behind and fail in the payment of that Homage he requires He bears our Affronts with Patience he tries us yet longer whilst we ingrateful Cratures can find in our Hearts to put off our best Friend only with good Words with fair Promises and vain Delays He prolongs our Days and gives us more time when his Justice might ere this have seiz'd upon us for our Arrears when we deserved to be cast into an eternal Prison and to be turn'd out of this World and Heaven both at once We are fed with his Bread clothed with his Wool all our Enjoyments our Friends our Health our Peace are his Gift and ought we not to remember the Donor of so many Mercies If the Rain and the Dew moisten and refresh the Ground 't is for our good if the Birds of the Air and the Beasts of the Field are maintain'd by the constant Supplies of his Providence 't is for us So that all the Creatures the Fowls of Heaven the Fishes of the Sea the Sun Moon and Stars that are the Lamps hung upon the Roof of our Dwelling to make our Lives the more sweet and comfortable nay the Day and the Night and the several Seasons of the Year utter their Voice Psal 19.2 and early and late call upon us to remember God The Language of all our Mercies is this that our Creator and their Parent is worthy to be lov'd and thought upon And if some of the Eastern Nations paid their early Devotions to the Sun * V●ssius de origine progressu Idololatriae lib. 2. cap. 2. because of its Greatness and Splendor and Usefulness in cherishing and ripening the Fruits of the Earth with its kindly Beams because of its refreshing Heat and Comfortable Light How should we consecrate the Morning of our Age to God who made that so bright so useful and so glorious a Creature as it is and is much more by his favourable Influences to every one of us than the Sun is to the World He that has been long sick will remember the Physician by whose Skill and good Advice he obtain'd a Cure He that has by the help of his Friend been freed from a long and tedious Captivity will all his days with a thankful Heart remember that Friend The Pilgrim will remember him that gives him Entertainment in his Travel the Poor his Benefactor And shall not we then remember our Creator who when we were fallen among Thieves and Robbers among the savage Inhabitants of the miserable Place who had left us as they thought for dead having stript us of our Innocence sent his own Son to heal our Wounds and to cloath us with the Garments of Salvation When we were by our own Folly like to languish all our Days in Bondage and a dark mournful State he sent the Angel of the Govenant to strike off our Chains and to yield us so much of heavenly Light that we might both see who it was that set open the Prison Door and where the way lay that would conduct us to a better place When we had sold our selves he bought us again at a great and dear Price 1 Pet. 1.19 The Blood of his own Son When we were poor he open'd the Treasures of Heaven to make us rich and to supply our Wants How frequently then ought we to remember such a God that when we had turn'd our selves out of Happiness was willing to sheath his flaming Sword and to let us enter into the Joys of a better Paradise than that which was the Seat of our first Parents That sent us the News of Pardon when we were condemn'd by the Sentence of the Law even when Satan was leading us away to Execution and when we deserved to dy III. The third General to be spoken of is to shew what necessity there is that we should remember our Creator now in the days of our Youth And this will be evident when he have considered those two things First We know not but before the days of old Age Death may cut us off There be many Young Men that are now past all help and have set in Darkness that might have been shining among the Stars above had they not been over-perswaded by the Devil to neglect their God through the hopes of a long and easie Life that would never believe they were in danger till it came like an Armed Man never believe they should leave the World till they were seiz'd with the last Agonies and Pains of Death We are now in Health but do we know how soon a mortal incurable Distemper may seize upon us We are now travelling on the Road but do we know when we shall arrive at our long home and conclude our Journey Now we are in the number of the Living but ere long we may increase the number of the Dead and add some Unites more to the Weekly Bills We should remember our Creator now for the next Moment is not our own our Life is a Dream or Vision of the Night Job 20.8 that is possest with strange Delusions that when we awake to a serious Thoughtfulness of what is our real Interest pass away 1 Chron. 29.15 and are not remembred with Delight any more Our Days on Earth are as a Shadow that will vanish when the Sun is either gone down or when 't is wrapt in the Mantle of a thick Cloud Though we are now at ease in these Cottages of Clay yet we are here only by Permission and during the Pleasure of our Lord but when our Lease will expire or the day of our Departure come we know not Heb. 9.27 It is by the unalterable Decrees of God appointed for us all once to dy but we that are forbidden to pry into the Arcana's of his secret Counsels know not when that Statute that was made because of our Sin shall be put in Execution and take both our Lives and Goods away Now we have pitch'd our Tents but are not certain when the Orders will be issued out for us to remove into another place Now the Body and the Soul like two loving Friends dwell in Peace together but they must part one into the Grave and the other into a Country that is at a far

Early Religion OR The Way for a Young Man to remember his Creator Proposed in a SERMON Preach'd upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager A Young Gentleman Who left this World Octob. 26. 1682. With an account of some Passages of his Life and Death By T. ROGERS M. A. London Printed for J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard and J. Dunton at the Black-Raven in the Poultrey M.DC.LXXXIII To those Young Men that were the Fellow Students and the particular and intimate Acquaintance of the deceased Mr. Robert Linager Much Respected Sirs AS at your Request the following Sermon was preach'd so to gratify your further Desire in the poor and mean Dress that you now see it it ventures into the World Which Desire of yours I attribute rather to have proceeded from the willingness that you had to keep up the remembrance of your Friend and what was memorable in his Example than from any thing else that could appear to your Judgments as worthy of the publick view And I hope to that it may be serviceable tho' not so much nor so well as if it had been managed by others of greater skill in Affairs of this nature than I pretend to have I intend not as you see to usher it in with the Titles of the Worshipful the Honourable or the Reverend nor to court the Protection of the Great all the ambition of my Discourse is to bear the Titles of such to whom it was peculiarly address'd among whom you are the chief I have no other aim in the whole Sermon nor in the printing of it than to shew the necessity of a serious remembrance of God in Youth And 't is all my desire that He who i● wont to bless sincere though weak Endeavours would make it successful to such an End And tho' I expect to meet with ill treatment from the Censorious and the Critical yet if I may by complying with your Desires be in the least helpful to the furtherance of your Holy Faith or the Good of others I shall not be much concern'd with all the Aspersions and the Calumnies that may be thrown upon me These my First-Fruits I humbly offer to my Creator by the High Priest of the most Noble Order his own Son by whom I hope this poor Oblation may meet with a favourable acceptance and as it is design'd be made through his Blessing somewhat useful to the Service of the Sanctuary and to you whom I believe to be the Temples of the Holy Ghost Pardon me if I presume to be your Monitor in this that as you are engaged in a contemplative studious Course of Life so you would so well provide for your own Ease and Pleasure and for your good progress in Learning as amidst all your Studies to contemplate God The frequent Thoughts of Him will be a great relief to your Minds when they are apt to be weary and faint with the multitude of other Thoughts When you are perplex'd he can shew you the right way to Satisfaction he can solve your Doubts and render those things obvious and plain which to Men that lean upon their own Vnderstandings will continue to be mysterious and unfathomable 'T is the great Father of Lights that can alone chase away that darkness which is the natural grievance and trouble of the Soul When you dig for Knowledg as for hidden Treasure he can tell you where the rich Vein lies that others miss of after a long and tedious search for without his assistance and direction 't is never to be found Those glorious Truths that enlarge and beautify the Soul are not the Portion of the Careless and Irreligious but of the Meek the Humble and Devout for such he that hath his Chair in Heaven will guide in Judgment and teach his Way Forget not to converse with your God while you converse with others nor while you read other Books slight those that he made You have the Scriptures and the Volume of the Creation both to read and study and these will not be as Solomon speaks of the rest a weariness to the Flesh for every time you look upon them you will have new degrees of pleasure only you must so order your Meditations that one may help the other and that your Philosophy may minister to Divinity and your Reason to Faith As you enjoy the great Priviledg of a learned ingenuous Education so God expects more from you than from others You have more leisure to think of him than those that are employed in Trades and servile Offices And besides your know very well that the best way to improve your short abode on Earth is to be undressing to leave off by degrees an over-great indulgence to the Body that so you may with great willingness and patience lay it quite aside when your Maker calls you to go strip'd of this Garment into the Spiritual and Eternal State You should always be in a prepared posture that when the Night or rather the day of your deliverance comes you may travel with courage from this House of Bondage into the joyful and happy Land The frequent remembrance of your Creator will take away from Death its frightful and ghastly shape Nor will it seem a dismal thing for you to remove to him whom you have often thought upon To die then will be only as if you should cross the Narrow Seas with a fair gale and go and see a Friend with whom you have held a good correspondence who hath sent you many rich Presents and with whom you have long wish'd to be While you are young please him by a constant opposing of your Sins and then you will fight your last Battel with admirable skill and be crowned with a sure Conquest for this will be the lot of all those that were engag'd betimes in this Holy War There be many erroneous by paths and you must deliberate and act wisely when you are first setting out lest you wander in a wrong way and be forc'd after you have endur'd much hard labour to return back again I question not but you will by your blameless and holy carriage let others see that there is a great beauty and lustre in Religion and by your practice present it to their Observation as a very sweet amiable thing In this sense you may be Preachers without being obnoxious to Penalties to Fines or Imprisonment even the Preachers of Righteousness in a corrupt and wicked Age. This honourable Temper will be useful to your selves and others too it will yield you store of quiet comfortable Thoughts that others must never have that make it late e're they begin their Master's Work This will make you unwearied in all Holy Duties and constant to your own Vows and Promises in the days of Evil such as ours are And if as our Sins have given sober and considerate Men too much cause to fear the thick darkness of Popery should over-spread our Land again it will be some comfort

slide into the dark Pit from which there will be no Redemption We may be surprized with the loud Thunder and the roaring Cannon when we think there is no Danger and when we flatter our selves with the vain Hopes of Peace and Safety sudden Destruction may come upon us 1. Thes v. 3. as Travel upon a Woman with Child To what shall I compare the Miseries of that young Man that is taken away in the midst of all his Pleasures and before he hath well thought of Death 'T is as dreadful as if you should see a Person in the midst of all his Mirth and Laughter immediately fall down Dead so that he cannot by all the Tears of his Friends nor by all the Chafing and Applications that are made be fetch'd to Life again A Surprizal that carries with it as great Horror and Amazement as does the sudden falling of a cruel Enemy into the Tents of a luxurious wanton Army that spares neither Young nor Old that mingles their Blood with the Sacrifices they made to their lustful Appetites and gives them no time either to Arm or to cry for Quarter 'T is as Dreadful as if a Massacre should happen among a company of little Children playing in the Street that while they suspected nothing are cut in a thousand pieces and carried away to the other World in a Sea of their own Blood The sudden untimely Death of careless young Men is as dreadful as a general Inundation that while Men are asleep breaks over all Bounds and carries them their Houses and their Goods away together Have we then no Pity for our selves or do we resolve not to prepare for our Tryal till the Assize come and the Judge is seated on the Bench Is it a small or a tolerable thing to be snatch●d away in one Moment from Life and Hope to have our Souls violently torn from our Bodies and to be sent from under the Dews of Heaven and a chearful pleasant Habitation to be scorched with fla●●ing Wrath and to Live in a Land of Darkness where is all that can afflict or grieve the separated Spirit If we were assured by certain Intelligence from the unseen World that this were the last Sermon we were to hear this the last time that we should have a Call to Remember God and to Repent and that before we Enjoy another of the Days of the Son of Man we should hear our final Doom and be either in Heaven above or Hell beneath Oh with what Cries should we rend the Heavens with what Earnestness should we pour out our Souls in Prayer and as a Criminal that is condemned to dye and is not ready for so great a Change make use of all our Friends to begg of God that he would Reprieve us and spare us a little longer that we may acquaint our selves with him and make our Peace before we go hence and be no more Psal 39.13 With how many Tears should we then bewail our early Follies and not listen to the Charms of sensual worldly Pleasures or the Temptations of the Devil And why should we not do the same now seeing we know not but that may be our Case Mat. 24.42 We know neither the Hour or the Day when our Lord will come nor when Death that is by his Commission going its Circuit and has already past its Sentence upon many others will Arrive at our Place and call us also to the Barr. I might here have shew'd you how many and how great would be the Advantages of an early Remembrance of your Creator how by this you would be a great comfort to your Ministers and Par●●ts and a Blessing both to this Age and to the next As also that hereby you would meet with prosperous Success in your affairs and after many years Labour sweet Repose and the Possession of an inward unspeakable Peace in your way to Glory And besides that you might in a great measure prevent those Calamities that have at a distance long threatned a secure careless People but now are at our very Doors and likely to seize on your Native Country which cries to you that are young to have pity upon her I might here entreat you as you would not see a Famine of the Word nor your Teachers driven to more solitary Corners nor after it has long stood upon the Threshold see the final departure of the Glory that you would now remember your Creator but I shall leave these to your more serious Consideration And now I shall endeavour to move you to this great Duty by setting before you the Example of that young man whose death presented me with the sad occasion of this Sermon though he be dead yet his Death speaks this to us all that we should in health remember our Creator and not defer so great a Work till we are just upon the Borders of the Grave We may think we are yet many paces off but when we have breathed a little longer we shall be there we shall go and dwell with him and with many others that were gathered from such Assemblies as this to the greater Congregation of the dead we shall go from the noise of populous Towns and Cities into that silent forlorn Desert and from Spirits that move in Bodies to those that are unclothed in that vast World which we the Pilgrims on Earth never saw and when we have well performed the Duties of our present state we shall go from moving in this Lower Firmament to move in that which is above all that we see and which is the proper Region and Sphere of the Soul the Seat and Habitation of the bless'd of all those that while they were on Earth remembred their Creator and believed in Christ I shall not draw the Picture of the Young Gentleman of whom I am now to speak in any other Colours then those which were reckoned to make up his true Complexion when he was alive and which were taken from him by such as had opportunity by Converse and Acquaintance to observe the several parts of his Behaviour I. In his more early days he was sent to the University of Dublin in Ireland that there he might obtain the useful knowledge of the Liberal Arts which when duely studyed are a great Ornament and Glory to the mind and render a man more capable of Noble Thoughts and Actions and greatly conduce to the making his Life not only more comfortable to himself but more useful to others but as is the deplorable condition of too many young men in such publick places of Education where the Boar out of the Forest the Devil waits to spoil the tender Vines that are newly planted there he was by the perswasion of ill Associates led away to some things not worthy of Commendation And when God that designed Mercy for his Soul not only checked him in his course by some cross Providences of which he still retained the sense but put it into the heart of his

that attended on his Weakness to read the Scripture to him when he could not reach it with his own Hand he desired others to administer to him that Bread of Life He was much in Prayer in the midst of his restless Nights and strong Pains resolving as long as he could to lift up those Eyes to Heaven which he believed would shortly be closed by Death and to spend that Breath in Desires after Grace which was every Moment ready to be stop'd Thus while his Body was detained on his Bed by various Pains his Soul was swiftly moving towards its proper Center And though by the Violence of his Disease he was somewhat stupified for a little while before he died yet while his Sences continued free in their Exercise he did with the bitter Cryes of a Penitent bewail his Sins expressing a great Hatred of them and a holy Indignation against himself Sometimes when he was told of Comfort he would mournfully say You know not what I feel My Sins ly very heavy on me my Sickness is not all nor is the Anguish of my Body so great as the Anguish of my Soul God gave him a very sensible tender Conscience which though it be grievous for a while yet is a great Mercy if compared with the great Judgment of an hard unmelting Heart which many Sinners both young and old are punish'd with so that even when they are on the Rack they do not confess their Sins nor seek after God He was greatly troubled And thus a loving Physician searches to the bottom of the Sore and puts his Patient especially when the Wounds are of a long Continuance to more then ordinary Pain that he may perform a great Cure When a Cloud of Despair seem'd to obscure his Comfort being told of the Pity and the Love of Christ to the greatest Sinners the Thoughts of his Saviour revived his dying Hopes and made him willing to pass through Darkness to Light through Pain to Rest saying I desire the Blood of Christ to cure all my internal Maladies And at another time said he desired him above all things The Night before his last he lay very Unquiet expressing a great sense of Trouble with many Sighs and Groans his Nurse rightly guessing that these were the Signs of something greatly afflictive to him advised him to ease his Mind which he immediately after did to him under whose Care he was with a serious Profession of Sorrow for the Sins he then Confessed and which he then found to be a great Burthen on his Conscience though they had been Committed long before The day before desiring the Prayers of the same Person and being ask'd what he would have begg'd of God for him He answer'd That God would shew his great Mercy on him in pardoning his Sins and healing his Soul and removing his spiritual Maladies owning with a due Sorrow his Sins of Omission and Commission and those which he had committed against the holy Spirit that would have reclaimed him from them He called to mind several suitable places of Scripture even beyond Expectation and very pertinently applyed them to the Necessities of his own Case which argued that he was no Stranger to that Rule which can more then all others teach a young Man best how to cleanse his Waies and to Remember God and at last said that he would be very willing to dye if he might have a Sense of the Mercies of Christ and of Pardon Which we have good ground to hope he did not come short of These were the Speeches and this the Behaviour of this dying young Man And lest any may be troubled to think that after so many Prayers and serious Endeavours as he used he should have so many Doubts and Fears about his Title to Forgiveness and a happy State I will add this viz. That it is greatly to be Considered that Satan whom the Scripture calls a Lyon when the Evening of Time is come to any Soul marches out of his Den and is then more full of Rage and Violence then he was before and as dying Bees or Serpents thrust out their Stings with greater vehemence so does he use the greater Force when he knows his time is but short He troubles the Souls of good People with dark and mournful Apprehensions of God and their own Condition when he sees them just at the Door of Heaven at which when they once enter his Spite is over and he can do no more Many Christians he thus Assaults that are of a long standing in the Vineyard and therefore it is not to be wondered if he thus tost to and fro this young Man who was but as a tender Plant. He had indeed a laborious Conflict and an hard Passage but we may well hope that it was but to him as a dark Night before a clear Day and that his Troubles here were but as the sharp Sauce the better to prepare his Appetite for the sweeter Tast of Happiness Many a time the Sun that sets in a Cloud does arise in Glory and many a Ship at last arrives to a quiet Harbour that met with Waves and Storms and high Winds all the way thither Let us also by this Example be perswaded to Remember our Creator now in the Days of our Youth while the evil Days come not For we see 't is he alone that can speak Peace and that to him alone we must go at last for Comfort who can heal our wounded Spirits and bear us up when if we should look to all our Friends they can only bewail our sad Case but not remove our Sorrows If we do this Mal. 3.16 17. he will write our Names in his Book of Remembrance and in that day when he makes up his Jewels he will spare us as a Man spareth his own Son that serveth him Ps 33.26 And when our Heart and our Flesh fails he will be the Strength of our Heart and our Portion for ever We may now see that all the Delights and Pleasures of the World are of no value and but miserable Comforters in the time of spiritual Distress from the sense of Sin and Guilt they will yield us then no Solace no peaceable Thoughts no Refreshment but our God is worthy to be thought upon who can by his Grace and Favour uphold and Bless the departing Soul To you that were the Acquaintance of the Deceas'd I shall only say this now you have stronger Engagements upon you to Remember your Creator then you had before for he has by the death of your Companion sent you a near and a loud Warning to prepare for your own He had but a little if any Sickness at all before that which proved his last Flatter not then your selves with the too great Hopes of long Life because of your present Health and Strength For though your earthly Tabernacles have not been undermin'd with many Infirmities and Diseases yet you know not but the first Storm that comes may shatter them

Parent to send him over hither to be under the care of a Divine her faithful Friend and among Persons more studious what by the Instruction of his Tutor and the benefit of good Examples and the Blessing of God on both he began to change for the better and as many that are in a Consumption while they are in a place full of hurtful vapours sensibly revive when they breath in a purer Air so did he as was evident by his Behaviour and Discourse wherein he would often confess his former Errors and greatly bewail his former too great easiness to be impos'd upon he blessed God that he was dissentangled from the snare of ill Company resolving never to be a slave in such Bonds again II. He was of a liberal Charitable Disposition and like his Creator full of pity to the Poor and the miserable and it was a remarkable Instance of this that once seeing a poor manbegging at the door who had been let out of Prison but the day before he gave him Money and ordered him to come the next day for a fresh Suite of Cloaths that he then wore himself and which according to his promise were then bestowed upon him and after this walking abroad with one of his Acquaintance he took occasion thence to raise a serious Discourse of the Providence of God that distributes his common Gifts in greater Abundance to one then to another saying that while he had a plentiful enjoyment of the World he would do good to the Poor not knowing how soon that might be his own case he did not only as he had opportunity cloath the Naked and relieve the miserable but endeavoured to excite in others the same willingness to give shewing them that this was the most excellent and lovely Temper he well knew that the best way to improve his Estate was to put some considerable Portions of it into the hands of the Poor being assured that God who had engaged his Word would see him paid again he knew that to be charitable was to be Divine and that the seed he threw upon the Low Valleys would be watered with the kind influences of the upper Springs and yield him a glorious Harvest which we have reason to believe he now reaps in the Heavens above And oh that all the young men that hear me this Evening would imitate so rare a President then they would not be under the Condemnation of those that lay out all their Money on their fine Cloaths or to gratifie their Appetites that spend many pounds per Annum on their Vain Pleasures their Sports and Recreations but it may be lay not by one shilling for the service of the Poor all the Year long These careless Stewards will have a sad Account to give when their Master comes again and enquires to what use they have put the many Talents they were entrusted with 3. He was once much addicted to Gaming but seeing the evil of it quite left it off knowing that all his Time well improved was little enough to prepare for Eternity and that his Riches and his Time were given him to better purpose then to be so vainly thrown away 4. He would often Lament his Undutifulness which he thought was the more inexcusable in one that had so indulgent so kind a Mother as his was and when the solitary Gentlewoman shall hear of his great Sorrow for this Sin in particular no doubt but she will bless God that all her Tears and her Prayers which she once made but with little hope were not lost upon him and that though he once was such he did not go a Rebel to the Grave And though he be taken away from possessing a large and fair Estate here on Earth yet she may have good Reason to believe that he is gone to possess what is more valuable and more sure an Inheritance with the Saints in Light and though she was not there to see the Tears wherewith he bewailed his Sins nor to hear his Zealous Fervent prayers for Holiness and pardon Yet she hath even for this Cause to be thankful for it may be it was a Mercy to her not to see him in his Agonies and Pains lest the sight of these might have too much oppressed her Spirits and have made her Sorrows more sharp * At Dublin and violent And though she was at a place far distant yet it may be a Comfort to her to think that he was not without that help which is needful to sick persons and that he wanted nothing that could be judged proper either to his outward or spiritual Necessities it may be some mitigation to her Grief to think that he breathed out his Soul among such who had a tender sense of his Condition and assisted him with their Prayers she may be comforted when she has Cause to believe that this her Son is not lost and though she had not the Opportunity to take a Solemn Leave of him when he was going hence yet that she shall see him again in the Latter day and with more Joy and Satisfaction then she ever saw him when he was in this Vale and this will add to the pleasure of their meeting then that they will not part again though he did not remain to bear up the Name of her Family yet she may hope that he now makes one in the Glorious Family and House of our Lord that shall not be turned into a House of Mourning by the Sickness or Death of any that have so great a priviledge as to dwell there She has Reason to lay aside her Sorrows when she may from his serious holy Frame well conclude that he that was once her Child is now in his absence from her the Child of God and shall not languish in pain nor know any more what it is to die V. He once used to swear but had afterward a Lively Sense of the horrid damnable Nature of that Sin and left it off And though some of the Evils of his former Education now and then returned upon him yet when faulty he was freely willing to admit of Convictions and to be reproved and to learn better things At first some good Orders in the House where he was seemed strange to him but he soon submitted to them and owned it as a Mercy that God brought him thither VI. In the Time of his Health he was over-heard by some in the same House to pray in his Closset twice a day though he did it not with a Pharisaical Ostentation nor to be thought devout And would we but be so kind to our own Souls as to imitate him in this so much Heavenly Pleasure and Comfort would attend our Devotions as would render it a most easie Task for us to remember God VII When he was confined to that Sickness which proved his last from the beginning of it he had upon his Mind a due Sense of Death and often when he was in great Pain he would desire the Nurse