An eye to heauen in earth A necessarie watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the husbands christian counsell to his wife and children, left poore after his death.

A comfortable Me∣ditation and Prayer, to bee considered and said by euery Christian, being neere the time of his dissolution.

NOw, O Lord, now draw néere vnto my soule, and redéeme it, for the time is at hand, wherein I shall taste of the cup of death: Now therefore is the acceptable time for thee to receiue my soule, in the multitude of thy mercies, which are

wonderfull: therefore doe I trust vnder the shaddow of thy wings: my soule cleaueth vnto thée, for thy right hand vpholdeth mée. My soule thirsteth for thée, my flesh longeth greatly after thée, whose louing kindnesse is better to mee then life: for, from thée commeth my saluation.

Haue mercy vpon mée, O God, haue mercy vpon me, for my soule trusteth in thée, and vnder the shaddow of thy wings wil I trust, till this my finall affliction be ouer-past.

My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is pre∣pared to come vnto thée, make it constant in thée; because, I know, that al∣though

this body, for a time shall wither, yet it shall be in the house of my God, as a gréene Oliue trée, euer to flourish, and be blessed.

Thou, Lord, thou hast chosen me, and hast cau∣sed me to come vnto thée; my saluation is of thine owne frée mercy, and of thy frée and Fatherly elec∣tion. I shall dwell in thy Courts for euer, and shall be satisfied with the plea∣sures of thine house, euen of thy Kingdome of glorie. I shall drinke of the Ri∣uers of thy pleasures: for, with thée is the Well of life, and in thy Light I shall sée light.

Let thy good Spirit

leade mee in the Land of Righteousnesse, and bring me by thy strength, to thy holy and heauenly habita∣tion; plant mee in the Mountayne of thine inhe∣ritance, euen in the place which thou hast prepared, and in thy sacred Sanc∣tuarie which thou hast e∣stablished, that I may sée thy goodnesse in the Land of the liuing: Let mee be∣hold thy face in righteous∣nesse; and let me be satis∣fied with the fulnesse of the glorie of thy Counte∣nance: for, in thy face is the fulnesse of ioy, and at thy right hand are plea∣sures for euermore.

Into thy hands, oh Lord, I commend my spi∣rit,

for thou hast redéemed me, O Lord God of truth; shew a token of thy good∣nesse and fauour towards me, that they which wish euill vnto my soule, may sée it and be ashamed; and they that loue thy Name, obserue it, and be confir∣med in thée, who hast e∣uermore holpen me and comforted mée.

Increase my faith, and pre∣pare my soule to come vnto thee.

AMEN.

To thee, O Lord God, on∣ly wise, and only mercifull, be ascribed all praise & thanks, dominion and glorie; for to thee it only belongeth.