CONTENTS

The Stations of the Sickness

1. The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness[7]
2. The strength and the function of the senses, and other faculties, change and fail[12]
3. The patient takes his bed[17]
4. The physician is sent for[23]
5. The physician comes[30]
6. The physician is afraid[35]
7. The physician desires to have others joined with him[43]
8. The king sends his own physician[50]
9. Upon their consultation, they prescribe[56]
10. They find the disease to steal on insensibly, and endeavor to meet with it so[63]
11. They use cordials, to keep the venom and the malignity of the disease from the heart[69]
12. They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head[77]
13. The sickness declares the infection and malignity thereof by spots[83]
14. The Physicians observe these accidents to have fallen upon the critical days[88]
15. I sleep not day or night[96]
16. From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of others[102]
17. Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die[107]

18. The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead[114]
19. At last the physicians, after a long and stormy voyage, see land: They have so good signs of the concoction of the disease, as that they may safely proceed to purge[122]
20. Upon these indications of digested matter, they proceed to purge[131]
21. God prospers their practice, and he, by them, calls Lazarus out of his tomb, me out of my bed[138]
22. The physicians consider the root and occasion, the embers, and coals, and fuel of the disease, and seek to purge or correct that[145]
23. They warn me of the fearful danger of relapsing[152]

DEVOTIONS