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THE

SICK MAN VISITED;

And furnished with

INSTRUCTIONS, MEDITATIONS, and PRAYERS,

FOR

Putting him in mind of his CHANGE;

FOR

Supporting him under his DISTEMPER;

AND FOR

Preparing him for, and Carrying him through, his
LAST CONFLICT with DEATH.

BY

NATHANAEL SPINCKES, A. M,
Late Prebendary of SARUM, &c.

Boaft not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knoweft not what
a day may bring forth. PROV. xxvii. 1.

Tu tamen mortem, ut nunquam timeas, femper co-
gita. Senec. Epift. 30.

THE SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED,

To which is Prefix'd,

A Short Account of the LIFE of the very
Reverend AUTHOR,

LONDON:

Printed for JOHN and FRANCIS RIVINGTON, at the
Bible and Crown (N° 62) St. Paul's Church-Yard.

MDCCLXXV.

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THE firft occafion of the enfuing treatife was the request of a friend, that I would overlook an old book upon this fubject, printed in King James I. reign, and would put it into modern English. Which having undertaken, to avoid the tedioufness of one continued difcourfe, without any manner of divifion, I thought it neceffary to caft mine into feveral parts, that, at the end of each, the reader might have a breathing-time, and fo proceed to what follows with the better appetite. And, in a little time, finding fome texts of Scripture not so properly applied as ought to have been, fome things more largely infified upon than I apprehend necessary, and many, on the A 2 other

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