Excerpt from The Happiness of Serving God in Our Daily Employments W'hat sad management are we sometimes obliged to notice in the spiritual treatment of the sick! A parent, or a child, or some relative is very ill, and nigh unto death and how is he treated by the friends and relations around him? Why, they remove out of the sick person's sight every thing that can possibly remind him of his worldly concerns. Now, against this I have not a word to say; it is perfectly right: here is so much the less lumber to divert the sick person from that work of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, which 'would lead him to think seriously of his situation, and to consider what state he is in with respect to God. But suppose the sick man to have been really governed by the fear of God in his worldly calling; suppose he haslived in the habit of referring all his temporal concerns to the Lord, in prayer; and has made it his aim to follow the Divine will both at home and abroad - how i'njudiciously, nay er roneously, is such a person often treated, upon his happen ing, possibly, to ask a question about some temporal matter that may concern him! Does not he often hear such an answer as this from his friends Oh don't trouble yourself about it; have nothing more to do with earthly things; your soul is all you need to care about. Just as if the care of the soul were a sort of hireling's work, begun at a certain time. And ended at a certain time. 0, my friend, the salvation of the soul is no task-work like this nor is it of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth but, simply and alone, of God that showeth mercy, Rom. Ix. 16. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.