Brooks Thomas – Words of counsel to a dear dying friend
Excerpt:
Dear sister in the Lord,
I know you have for many years been the Lord’s prisoner. Great have been your trials, and many have been your trials, and long have been your trials; but to all these I have spoken at large in my treatise called “The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod,” which you have in your hand, which you have read, and which God has greatly blessed to the support, comfort, quiet, and refreshment of your soul under all your trials; and therefore I shall say no more as to those particulars. But knowing that the many weaknesses which hang upon you, and the decays of nature which daily attend you, seem to point out your approaching death, I shall at this time give you this one word of counsel, namely, that every day you would look upon death in a scripture glass, in a scripture dress, or under a scripture notion; that is,
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