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the hands of God; Who will be a Father to the Fatherless, and a Husband to the Widow.

Let him then chearfully Truft God with his Friends and Family, and fay,

LL my Cares for my Wife,

A and Family, and Friends,

I caft on thee, for thou careft for us. I Pet. 5. 7.

For in thee, O Lord, the Fatherlefs findeth Mercy. Hof. 14.

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And thou hast said, Leave thy Fatherless Children, I will preferve them alive; and let thy Widows truft in me. Jer. 49. II.

And I never faw the Righteous forfaken, but his Seed is bleffed. Pfal. 37. 25, 26.

The Generation of the upright

Thall be blessed.

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Riches fhall be in his house, and his Righteousness endureth for ever.

Surely

ever

Surely he shall not be moved for but shall be in everlasting remembrance. Pfal. 112. 2, 3, 6. For when their Father and Mother forfake them, then doft thou take them up. Pfal. 27. 10.

Even thou, who art the Father of the Fatherless, and the Judge of the Widows. Pfal. 68. 5.

And as a mighty Redeemer, wilt plead their caufe. Prov. 23. 10,

II.

A Prayer,

Of Sick or Dying Perfons, for Trufting God with their Friends or Kindred.

Ord, if thou feeft fit to call

me home to thy felf by this Mr. KetSickness ; When I am taken well. from my Wife and Children, and from those who under thee have Dependance on me; give them Grace, I beseech thee, to betake themselves to Thee.

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I commit them to Thee, O God of Mercy and Truth, for they are Thine. And with thee the Fatherless find Mercy.

Yea, thou art the Father of the Fatherlefs, and the Judge of the Widows; and wilt fhew thy feli mighty to plead their Caufe.

And my heart is at eafe, to have them lodged in thy Care, where they are infinitely fafer, and will be infinitely happier, and better provided for, than ever they could be in mine, or in any Others without Thee.

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I freely commit them to thy Care, O Bleffed Lord, having my felf always found the Blef fing of being under it, and of truiting to it.

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And I beg no greater Bleffing for them, than that they may ever have thy good Providence: for their Inheritance in this World, and thy Peace for their Portion in the World to come;

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for the fake of Jesus Christ.

men.

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Having inftructed the Sick Man in the forementioned Inftances, and admonished him, I. To bear his Sickness Patiently. 2. To perfect and compleat his Repentance. 3. To exercife Faith and Trust in God. 'Tis now pertinent to Exhort him, 4. To a chearful Submiffion to the Will of God, in being ready to Die and to leave this World,When and How the Divine Wisdom fall fee it fit.

Of the Sick Man's being wil-
ling to Die.

Death is truly called the King

of Terrors: For we have naturally a great Dread and Abhorrence of it; and by all poffido fhun

ble

ways

and means

and avoid it,

But how far this Natural Dread is rational, and to be admitted and in what Cafe it is to be corrected and restrained, comes briefly to be examined.

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1. He who is not prepared for Death, hath just cause to fear it.

For Death, to fuch a Man, who lives and dies in his Sin, is only an Introduction to a Miferable Eternity.

To leave Stately Houfes, beautiful Gardens, pleafant Companions, with all other Accommodations for Delight and Satisfaction; and to be caft into utter Darkness, where will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of Teeth; and no other Society, but of Devils and Damned Spirits: The Thought of this must needs ftrike an impenitent Sinner with the greatest Terror, and he will pafionately defire to continue longer in this World, before he come into that Place of Torment.

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