THE

SICK MAN VISITED;

And furnished with
INSTRUCTIONS, MEDITATIONS, and Prayers,

S 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.

Boast not thyself of 10-morrow; for thou knowest not what

a day may bring fortb. Prov. xxvii, 1.
Tu tamen mortem, ut nunquam timeas, semper 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,

E O N D ON:
Printed for John and FRANCIS RIVINGTON, at the
Bible and Crown (No 62) St. Paul's Church-Yard.

MDCCLXXV.

Tappen Presh, Ass 69-1932

T HE first occasion of the ensuing treatise was •

the request of a friend, that I would overlook an old book upon this fubje&t, printed in King James I. reign, and would put it into modern English. Which having undertaken, to avoid the tediousness of one continued discourse, without any manner of division, I thought it neceffary to cast mine into several parts, that, at the end of each, the reader might bave 4 breathing-time, and so proceed to what follows with the better appetite. And, in a little time, finding some texts of Scripture not so properly applied as ought to bave been, fome things more largely infifted upon than I apprebend necessary, and many, or the A 2

other