As a practical application of direction 5 about the use of reason in matters of the afterlife, Baxter advised withdrawing oneself from the crowd and daily affairs and contemplating the end of life here on earth. And then he added this uncomfortable thought: if it is reasonable for a man to think of the matters of life in this world 365 days in a year and be unable to give even an hour in a day or one day in a week to contemplate about the afterlife.