ît: And may I never forget my obligation to thee, and all the kindness of those about me, whom I humbly recommend to thy continual kindness and everlasting favour, through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour. Amen.

And here I think it not unseasonable to recommend to those who are recovered from sickness, to read a very excellent tract, intituled "Serious Advice to a Person recovered from Sickness," by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edmund Gibson, D. D. late Lord Bishop of London, to which is subjoined "A Thanksgiving after Recovery.'

A short form of Questions which may be put to one who is at the point of death. Taken from Anselm, by Dr. Stearne.

Q. Brother, are you glad that you die in the Christian faith? A. I am. Q. Do you confess that you have not lived so well as you ought to have done? A. I do.-Q. Do you confess that you have lived so wickedly, as to deserve eternal punishment? A. I do.-Q. Are you sorry that you have so lived? A. I am.-Q. Are you determined to correct

and

and amend your life, if you should live any longer? I am.-Q. Do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born of the blessed Virgin Mary?— Q. Do you believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for you? A. I do.Q. Are you thankful for these benefits? A. I am.-Q. Do you believe that you cannot be saved but through his merits? A. I do. Which being done, let the sick man say three times, O Lord, Jesus, Into thy hands I commend my spirit.

Another Form of Questions for the Visitation of the Sick, somewhat larger, taken from Laud's Summary of Devotions, by Dr. Stearne.

Do you think

1. That no disease or calamity happens to any one by chance or without cause?

2. But that it is sent upon him by God, without whose providence no one is afflicted with illness?

3. And that God is too wise to suffer any thing to happen, but when it is ex`pedient?

4. Therefore that it is expedient to you to suffer the sickness or calamity which God has now sent upon you?

5. More

5. Moreover, that God has a fatherly regard for us; but that whether a father indulges or chastises, he is still a father; and that he does not shew less, perhaps a greater love, when he chastises, than when he indulges?

6. That he has long given you good things, and now gives you evil things; yet not even these evil things, but to the intent that they may work out greater good for you; namely, that you may return to him?

If so; in this instance submit your will to the divine will, a sacrifice of all (after that of Christ) most acceptable unto God.

Do you confess

1. That you have not lived so well as you ought to have done? Nay, that you have lived wickedly, and that you have often and heinously sinned?

2. Is there any sin over and above the rest? Or are there any sins which burden your conscience, so that you stand in need of the benefit of particular absolution?

3. Have you any scruple about those things which relate to Faith or Religion? 4. Do you reflect on the past years of your life in the bitterness of your soul?

5. Would you wish to feel a greater bitterness for them, than you do? and should

should you rejoice if you did? and are you grieved that you do not?

6. Do you desire to have those things which you are ignorant of, or have forgotten, made clear to you, that you may repent of them? and are you sorry even for that which you are either ignorant of, or have forgotten?

7. Is it Is it your determination, if you shall live, to judge and to punish yourself for what you have done amiss?

8. Is it your determination, if you shall live, to amend your life, and to avoid the temptations to those sins which you have hitherto committed?

9. Do you religiously and faithfully promise this?

10. And do you desire freely to be put in mind of this promise?

Do you believe

1. Those things which are in the Creed of the Christian Faith, once delivered to the saints?

2. That you cannot be saved, unless you believe them?

3. Are you glad, and do you thank God, that you were born in this Faith, have lived, and now shall die in it?

4. Is it your desire, and are you willing, that we should in your name humbly beseech

seech God, that this Faith in him may not fail you, and especially not in the very moment of death?

5. Do you desire also, that the fruit of this Faith, and especially of the death of Jesus Christ, however it may have failed in your life, may not fail in death?

6. If your senses should be affected, or pain and weakness should have such an effect upon you, as to cause you to utter any thing against religion or its precepts, would you have it considered as a thing not said? and do you renounce such things, as if they were not yours?

Do you forgive

1. Those who have in any manner offended you, as you would be forgiven yourself?

2. Do you pray to God to forgive them likewise?

3. Do you remit to them that satisfaction to which they are bound on account of those things, by which they have injured you either by word or deed?

4. Would you have it signified in your name to those who have offended you, that you have forgiven, as far as lies with you, all their offences?

5. And would you have forgiven them, if their offences against you had been greater and more in number?

6. Should