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<P><HI>MEMENTO MORI,</HI> OR A word in &s;ea&s;on to the Health|ful, Sick, and Dying, fit for this calamitous time.</P>
<P>Wherein &s;ickne&s;&s;es, rage, and deaths, are frequent.</P>
<P>In which is Di&s;cour&s;ed,
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<ITEM>1. That the pre&s;ent Life of Man is &s;hort.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That Death is mo&s;t certain.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That the time and way of Death is uncertain.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Motives to prepare for Death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Some things to be done in preparation for Death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Some Antidots again&s;t the fears of Death.</ITEM>
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<Q><P><BIBL><HI>Heb.</HI> 9.27.</BIBL> <HI>It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><L>Chilo per Au&s;onium,</L>
<L>Vive memor mortis, uti memor &s;is &amp; &s;alutis.</L>
<L>Per&s;ius.</L>
<L>Vive memor Lethi, fugit hora &mdash;</L>
<BIBL>Augu&s;t. de Doctr. Chri&s;tiana.</BIBL></Q>
<P>He cannot die ill, who liveth well, and it is rare for one to die well, who hath lived ill.</P>
<P>By a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1699.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Argument.</HI> The Cro&s;s and the Crown, <HI>Pag.</HI> 18. <HI>Ben</HI> O Death is terrible! <HI>Cord.</HI> 14.</HEAD>
<L><HI>BAr.</HI> &mdash; mind thou mu&s;t dye,</L>
<L>All men to Nature mu&s;t this Tribute pay;</L>
<L>The Crowned King, and &s;o the Chained Slave</L>
<L>Mu&s;t equally be turn'd into the grave.</L>
<L>There's no di&s;charge in this Man-&s;laying War,</L>
<L><HI>Memento mori</HI> ev'ry thing doth bear.</L>
<L>Tis but a little while of interval</L>
<L>Twixt tho&s;e that on a Tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ick Scaffold fall,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e the rac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of natures cour&s;e who run;</L>
<L>Our life is almo&s;t gone when &s;carce begun;</L>
<L>Like to the Flow'r, that with the Sun doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And with the Su<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> at night fades from our eyes.</L>
<L>And though, the King of terrours, death be call'd,</L>
<L>Yet by his terrours thou &s;han't be enthral'd.</L>
<L>For Chri&s;t hath overcome death by his death,</L>
<L>'Tis but a &s;oftly &s;leeping out the breath;</L>
<L>Which when its gone breaths in the land of joy,</L>
<L>Where fears of men or death no more annoy.</L>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Ea&s;t-Lothian,</HI>
<DATE><HI>November</HI> 4. 1699.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>MEMENTO MORI,</HI> OR Death's Alarum to City and Countrey, to mind and prepare for Death.</HEAD>
<P><HI>JOb</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble; he cometh fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th like a flower and is cut down; he fleeth al&s;o as a &s;hadow, and continueth not,</HI> Job 14.12. In which Pathetick Pa&s;&s;age, he pointeth at the bre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ity of our pre&s;ent life, the certainty of our future death, and that all the days of our life till our death, are lyable to be attended with many troubles and &s;orrows: the &s;erious con&s;ideration whereof &s;hould make us concerned to provide Cordials for An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">idoting the bitterne&s;s of the mi&s;eries of our life, and excite us earne&s;tly to exerci&s;e our &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lves to prepare for death, and with all diligence to &s;ecu e our hopes of eternal life.</P>
<P>Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell are the four la&s;t things, yet for the mo&s;t part the la&s;t and lea&s;t in our thoughts, which &s;peaks out much &s;tupidity, unbelief, and impiety; for if we did really believe (as we &s;ay we do) that after our natural death, there is life and death of another nature, <HI>viz</HI> Eter|nal life, and the &s;econd death, unto one of which we &s;hall be doomed, at the great day of Judgment, we &s;hould &s;urely be more concerned, than generally we are, to prepare for death, and lay hold on eternal life: The&s;e, the&s;e are matters of great|e&s;t con&s;equence, all our other &s;ecular concerns, and temporal cares and intere&s;ts, are but trifles and vanities in compari&s;on hereof: Yet alas! See we not the greate&s;t part of the infatu|ated children of men, madly pur&s;uing to gra&s;p and po&s;&s;e&s;s this world, and to take all their pre&s;ent plea&s;ures in time, as if they were to live a &s;en&s;ual life for ever, or to be annihilated at death, or that there were neither Heaven nor Hell after it: <HI>Eccl.</HI> 9.3. &mdash; <HI>The heart of the &s;ons of men is full of evil,</HI> and madne&s;s is in their heart, while they live, and after that they
<PB N="4" REF="3"> go to the dead. But my friend, whoever thou art that reads the&s;e Lines, &s;ure I am thou art a Mortal, therefore <HI>Memento mori,</HI> rememember thou mu&s;t die; For <HI>what man is he that liveth, and &s;hall not &s;ee death?</HI> P&s;al. 89.48. My de&s;ign is as &s;uccinctly as I can, to &s;et before thee a few things of death, and preparation for it, which are di&s;cour&s;ed in the&s;e 6. Secti|ons following.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>SECTION I.</HI> The pre&s;ent life of man is &s;hort.</HEAD>
<P>WE need not be long or prolix in telling you that our life is &s;hort, they have been but &s;hort while in the World, who are not convinced, from their own ob&s;ervation of daily deaths, that mortal man is of few days; therefore to prevent multiplication of words in proving a thing, that rea|dily none who have their &s;en&s;es about them will deny: All we &s;hall offer on this Head, &s;hall be to cite and narrate &s;ome Scripture-pa&s;&s;ages, wherein the brevity of mans life is illu|&s;trated, by comparing it to &s;everal things that are tran&s;itory and corruptible in their nature, or of very &s;hort duration and continuance. Job 9.6. <HI>My dayes are &s;wifter than a weavers &s;huttle,</HI> which flyeth in the twinkling of an eye, from the one end of the Web-Loom to the other. Job 9.25, 26. <HI>My dayes are &s;wifter than a po&s;t, they pa&s;s away as the &s;wift &s;hips, and as the eagle that ha&s;teth to the prey;</HI> all which are mo&s;t &s;wift and vio|lent in their motions. P&s;al. 90.9. <HI>We &s;pend our years as a tale that is told,</HI> which con&s;i&s;teth in a few vani&s;hing idle words. Job 7.7. <HI>My life is wind, that po&s;teth by us on &s;wifte&s;t wings, in a moment of time.</HI> Jam. 4.14. &mdash; <HI>For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time, and then vani&s;heth away.</HI> P&s;al. 144.4. <HI>Man is like to vanity, his days are as a &s;ha|dow that pa&s;&s;eth away;</HI> either as the &s;hadow of a cloud carri|ed with a violent wind, pa&s;&s;eth our view in an in&s;tant, or as the &s;hadow of the Sun on a Dial, that quickly declineth, till &s;et from our Horizon. 1 Pet. 1.24. <HI>All fle&s;h is as gra&s;s, and all
<PB N="5" REF="3"> the glory of man as the flower of the gra&s;s,</HI> &amp;c. Mans life is as the gra&s;s, lyable to a thou&s;and accidents, to wither either by the &s;corching beams of the Sun, or a bla&s;ting wind, or to be &s;oon cut down, or trampled under the foot of man, or bea&s;ts: And as in a plea&s;ant Meadow there are many &s;orts of gra&s;s or flowers, of various forms, figures and colours, white, yellow, red, blue, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Which by the &s;ame fate fall together before the &s;harp Syth; &s;o men of all qualities, Complexions and &s;ta|tures, are promi&s;cuou&s;ly alike &s;ubject to deaths de&s;tructions. Job 34.18, 19. <HI>God accepteth not the per&s;ons of princes, nor re|gardeth the rich more than the poor, in a moment &s;hall they die.</HI> Job 21.13. <HI>In a moment they go down to the grave, i. e.</HI> in a very &s;hort &s;pace of time doth their breath evaporate and evani&s;h. P&s;al. 39.5. <HI>Behold thou ha&s;t made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee; verily every man at his be&s;t e|&s;tate is altogether vanity:</HI> After this &s;imilitude of our vain frail life to nothing and vanity, nothing more needs be &s;aid to ex|pre&s;s the brevity of it; and even they who by rea&s;on of &s;trength, reach the length of three&s;core years and ten, or four&s;core, yet their &s;trength is labour and &s;orrow, <HI>for it is &s;oon cut off, and they flee away,</HI> P&s;al. 90.10.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>SECTION II.</HI> Death is mo&s;t certain and inevitable.</HEAD>
<P>DEath is a debt that all mortals owe to Nature, and mu&s;t be paid; death will admit of no bribe, no bail, no main-prize, their is no po&s;&s;ible fence or guard again&s;t his darts and in&s;truments of de&s;truction, &s;ayes <HI>Job</HI> 30.23. <HI>I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the hou&s;e appointed for all living.</HI> And <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.27. <HI>It is appointed for all once to die,</HI> i. e. there is a &s;tated unalterable decree by the Council of Heaven, that all mu&s;t die, which by no means can be repealed or avoided. Pray what can thou plead or pretend as a ground of hope to e&s;cape, but what will be found vain and unable to help thee. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 89.48. <HI>What man is he that liveth, and &s;hall not &s;ee death? Shall he deliver his &s;oul from the hand of the grave?</HI> Eccle&s;. 8.8.
<PB N="6" REF="4"> <HI>There is no man that hath power in the day of death, and there i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> no di&s;charge in that war.</HI> Riches and wealth will not avail the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the day of death, they may rather perhaps bring thee &s;ooner to thine end; thy vexatious thoughts of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ece&s;&s;ty of leaving them grating and wa&s;ting thy vital &s;pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">its, or there|by thou maye&s;t be expo&s;ed to become a prey to &s;ome or other, who by &s;ini&s;ter ways may compa&s;s thy death, to &s;hare of thy beloved gear and riches: Where is <HI>Crae&s;us</HI> and <HI>Cra&s;&s;us?</HI> Where are all the full and opulent po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of this worlds goo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s? Hath not death &s;poiled them all, both of their lives and livings? <HI>Job</HI> 21.13. <HI>They &s;pend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.</HI> Job 34.19, 20. &mdash; <HI>Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> regardeth not the rich more than the poor, in a moment &s;hall they die.</HI> Worldly power and greatne&s;s are little things before this great King of terrours, and terrour of Kings. Where ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the mighty Monarchs, Princes and Potentats of this World. Where are the Armed Ho&s;ts of Nations, with their Generals Captains and Commanders? Are not all the&s;e men of migh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> con&s;umed with worms and corr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ption? They who brought ma|ny deaths upon others, could not war<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it off them&s;elves. <HI>Job</HI> 24.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 24. <HI>The mighty are not &s;ure of their life, they are exalted for a while, but are gone and brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. Rev:</HI> 19.18. <HI>The fle&s;h of Kings, the fle&s;h of Captains, the fle&s;h of mighty men, the fle&s;h of all men both free and bound both &s;mall and great,</HI> &s;hall be made a fea&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o death and corruption. The So|phi&s;ts and wi&s;e men of the world, who by their exqui&s;ite cun|ning and providence could contrive and plot the ruine of Na|tions, not one of them could ever yet fall on a politick to &s;ave them&s;elves from death: Where the <HI>Achitophels</HI> where the <HI>Matchia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">els,</HI> and all th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> other profound Polititians, who have been admired for their wi&s;dom &s;en&s;e and eloquence; hath not death out-witted them all, and de-witted them utterly <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 49.10. <HI>The wi&s;e man dieth,</HI> &amp;c. I&s;a. 3.1, 2, 3. <HI>Where th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mighty man, and the man of war, the Judge, and the Prophet and the prudent? Where is the honourable man, and the Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;ellou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and the cunning Artificer, and the eloquent Orator?</HI> Are they no all taken away? yea, they are dead and gone. Bodily &s;trength health and vigour, cannot hold out again&s;t this Conq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ero<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tho&s;e he cru&s;heth down as the moth, and maketh to decay a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="7" REF="4"> all as the gra&s;s before the Mower. How many healthful and young per&s;ons ha&s;t thou known, who appeared as if they would have run to the outmo&s;t &s;tep of Natures cour&s;e, who yet have been run down by death in the mid&s;t and bloom of their ver|dant years? <HI>Let not the young man glory in his &s;trength,</HI> for &s;ome &s;ays <HI>Job</HI> 36.14. they die in youth. I thought not ami&s;s on this particular to in&s;ert here a few Lines out of a little Poem, called, An Ab&s;tract of <HI>Eccle&s;iastes, Sect.</HI> 17.</P>
<Q><L>Boa&s;t not of youthful years, nor boa&s;t</L>
<L>Of health of body, nor of might;</L>
<L>A &s;hort whiles &s;ickne&s;s may thee po&s;t</L>
<L>From time, to an eternal night.</L>
<L>Mind thou mu&s;t die, but when, or where,</L>
<L>Thou canne&s;t not Divine or tell;</L>
<L>The Lambs-skin often at the Fair</L>
<L>You'l find as &s;oon as the Sheeps to &s;ell.</L></Q>
<P>Neither will the charms of beauty, nor the fine&s;t amiable com|plexions, move death to pity or &s;pare, he is &s;o fond of his own Ga&s;tly Countenance, that he will have all look like him|&s;elf: Loveable beauty, I &s;ay, the common charm of Mortals, will not at all take with this Ma&s;ter of Mortals, for he'll make <HI>their beauty to con&s;ume away like a moth, P&s;al.</HI> 39.11. Yea, <HI>their beauty &s;hall con&s;ume in the grave,</HI> P&s;al. 49.14. What, what then will be a &s;hield again&s;t the darts of death? If none of the&s;e can be Armour of Proof? will not piety and vertue be a fence and &s;anctuary? No, no, <HI>for all fle&s;h is gra&s;s!</HI> Even grace and godline&s;s that may make immortal after time, will not &s;ave any mortal from temporal death. I&s;a. 57.1. <HI>The righteous pe|ri&s;heth, and merciful men are taken away. Heb.</HI> 11.13. The Apo&s;tle &s;peaking of <HI>Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Mo&s;es,</HI> and other holy men of God, &s;ays of them, <HI>The&s;e all died in faith:</HI> Lay thine account then who ever thou art, that &s;oon or &s;yne thou mu&s;t die.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>SECTION III.</HI> The time and way of death is uncertain.</HEAD>
<P>MOrtals are obnoxious to innumerable mi&s;chievous mi&s;|fortunes, fatal accidents, and untimely deaths, &s;ays <HI>Eliphaz</HI> J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b 5.7. <HI>Man is born unto trouble, as the &s;parks flee upward.</HI> No man knoweth what &s;cene or &s;hare of temptations and tribulations may betide him ere he go off the &s;tage of time; but all having &s;inned, all may dread to partake of the bitter fruits of &s;in: Every day we may behold &s;ome &s;pectacles of mi&s;ery; every day brings news of &s;ome body or other that is vi&s;ited with di&s;a&s;ters and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tre&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s. To prevent tedious enlargement on this Head, take a &s;hort Synop&s;is of &s;ome of the common woes and mi&s;eries of the world, in a few Ver&s;es of a little Shedull, called, <HI>The Cro&s;s and the Crown.</HI></P>
<Q><L>This World's a Ma&s;s of Woes, a Maze of Tears,</L>
<L>Amazing Mortal Wights with Panick fears;</L>
<L>Our life's a Tragedie, comes in with cryes,</L>
<L>Made up of griefs, goes out with Elegies:</L>
<L>Each Mortal acts his part, in ev'ry age,</L>
<L>Each Scene new &s;orrows brings upon the Stage;</L>
<L>Some cover'd with a Sable Vail we &s;ee,</L>
<L>An Embleme of a late Mortalitie;</L>
<L>Some crying (clapping hands) Ah! cruel Fate,</L>
<L>I'm ravi&s;h'd of my Darling and my Mate.</L>
<L>Some change their health to &s;ickne&s;s, ea&s;e for pain,</L>
<L>Some in a moment all their glory &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n;</L>
<L>Some who were Crown'd with Fortunes brave&s;t Bay,</L>
<L>Have found their Garland wither &s;oon away:</L>
<L>Some who like <HI>Crae&s;us,</HI> Trea&s;ures had in &s;tore,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Job,</HI> or <HI>Irus,</HI> poverty deplore:</L>
<L>Some who had all they wi&s;h'd, wi&s;h for their Urne,</L>
<L>And that their Fun'ral Flames may quickly burn.</L>
<L>Yea, Common-wealths, and Monarchies we &s;ee,</L>
<L>That &s;ometime flouri&s;h'd, are a nullitie</L>
<L>Our Text is prov'd, this World's a ma&s;s of woes,</L>
<L>Each day a doleful Comment<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry &s;hows.</L></Q>
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<P>But that we may come clo&s;&s;er to the main purpo&s;e of this Section, <HI>viz.</HI> that the time and way of death is uncertain, we will narrate an H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;torical account of &s;everal per&s;ons who have been &s;oon and &s;uddenly &s;natch'd out of the world, and &s;ome of them come to very tragical ends, by &s;trange and unexpected ways and means: It would be an endle&s;s work to &s;pecifie all, even the ordinary di&s;ea&s;es, whereby people are in ieopardy daily of having the threed of their life cut; neither is it po&s;|&s;ible to gue&s;s at, or foretell all the fatal accidents whereby our death may be compa&s;&s;ed, for our life and breath is at the un|avoidable reverence and di&s;po&s;al of the ab&s;olute Lord of life and death, who hath many Arrows in his Quiver, and variety of in&s;truments of death, there be <HI>mille nocendi artes, &amp; mille pericula mortis,</HI> which &s;hould make us who are certain we mu&s;t die, and uncertain where or when, to &s;tudy to be always rea|dy and prepared, <HI>Matth.</HI> 24.22.24. and <HI>Matth.</HI> 25.13. <HI>Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh,</HI> therefore be ye al&s;o ready, for in &s;uch an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh; <HI>Prov.</HI> 27.1. com|pared with <HI>Jam.</HI> 4 14. <HI>Boa&s;t not thy &s;elf of to morrow, for thou knowe&s;t not what a day may bring forth, and ye know not what &s;hall be on the morrow, for what is your life? it is even a vapour that appeareth a little time, and then vani&s;heth away.</HI> The in|con&s;iderate r ch man in the Go&s;pel, fondly promi&s;ed to him|&s;elf many years, wherein he expected to po&s;&s;e&s;s his great wealth, and to take his ca&s;e, eat, drink, and be merry, when behold in a moment a damping me&s;&s;age came unto him, which no doubt did &s;trike him into a Pannick fear, and Fever of per|plexities, but God &s;aid to him, <HI>Thou fool, this night thy &s;oul &s;hal be required of thee, then who&s;e &s;hall tho&s;e things be which thou ha&s;t provided?</HI> Luk. 12.16. to 22. Now we come according to our purpo&s;e, to narrate &s;ome Tragick in&s;tances of &s;trange and &s;ud|den deaths.</P>
<P><HI>Hylas</HI> Sailing to <HI>Colchos,</HI> while he was drawing a Bucket of Sea-water, with the weight thereof was pulled over Board, and drowned.</P>
<P><HI>Fortia Attendulus,</HI> while he was endeavouring to &s;ave his Ser|vant, in hazard of drowning in the River <HI>Aternus</HI> in <HI>Italy,</HI> did him&s;elf peri&s;h in the Water.</P>
<P><HI>Maxentius</HI> the Emperor, in his flight from <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the
<PB N="10" REF="6"> Great, pa&s;&s;ing the Bridge called <HI>Ponte Molle,</HI> within two Miles of <HI>Rome,</HI> the &s;aid Bridge &s;uddenly falling into the River, he and all that were with him pre&s;ently peri&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Remulus Ana&s;ta&s;ius</HI> the Emperor, and <HI>Aurelianus Carus</HI> the Emperor, and many with him, were in an in&s;tant de&s;troyed and &s;uffocate with Thunder and Lightnings.</P>
<P><HI>Neocles</HI> the Son of <HI>Themi&s;tocles</HI> died with the bite of an Hor&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Seleucus Callenicus,</HI> and <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> the &s;econd Emperors, both died by a fall off their Hor&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Fulco</HI> the Earl of <HI>Angiers</HI> was brained dead with a &s;troak of his Hor&s;e, lifting up, and bending back his head.</P>
<P><HI>He&s;peria</HI> a Maid died of the bite of a Serpent, and <HI>Diogenes</HI> the Philo&s;opher of the bite of a Dog.</P>
<P><HI>Hatto</HI> the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Mentz</HI> was devoured of Mice.</P>
<P><HI>Maximinus</HI> the Emperor, and <HI>Honorificus</HI> the King of the <HI>Vandals,</HI> were both con&s;umed with &s;warms of Lice.</P>
<P><HI>Herod</HI> arrayed in his Royal Apparel, &s;itting upon his Throne, by the immediat hand of God was eaten of Worms.</P>
<P><HI>Alcibiades</HI> was burnt alive in his Chamber.</P>
<P><HI>Niolas</HI> being keen at hunting, earne&s;tly following the cha&s;e, fell accidentally into a Coal-pit, where he died mi&s;erably.</P>
<P><HI>Philo&s;tratus</HI> and <HI>Elpenor</HI> falling down a pair of Stairs in their drunkenne&s;s, both died of the fall.</P>
<P><HI>Terentius Corax,</HI> while Writing a Mi&s;&s;ive Letter, &s;uddenly died: So did <HI>C. Julius</HI> a Phy&s;ician, in the time he was putting his Spectacles on his No&s;e: And <HI>Flavius Ve&s;pa&s;ianus,</HI> while hearing Forreign Amba&s;&s;adors: And L. <HI>Durius</HI> a Phy&s;i|cian, while drinking a Gla&s;s of Wine.</P>
<P><HI>Ap. Saufetus</HI> in glu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ting down an Egg, died immediatly.</P>
<P><HI>Cueus Carbo,</HI> while ea&s;ing Nature, died on the place, &s;o it is &s;toried of <HI>Arrius</HI> that Arch-heretick in the Primitive times.</P>
<P><HI>Petr. Calceanus</HI> died among the Barbers hands while a trim|ing.</P>
<P><HI>Philippides</HI> the Comedian, <HI>Diagoras</HI> the Rhodian, and <HI>Ju|ventus Thalua,</HI> all died of an exce&s;s of joy.</P>
<P><HI>Phili&s;tion</HI> the Poet died in a great kink and fit of laugh|ter.</P>
<P><HI>Philip</HI> the Son of <HI>Demetrius</HI> the &s;econd King of <HI>Macedon,</HI> and <HI>Charles</HI> the gro&s;s Emperor, both died of an exce&s;s of grief and &s;orrow.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. Heterius</HI> a Roman Knight, and Cornel <HI>Gallie</HI> a Senator, both died in the very act of Venery.</P>
<P><HI>Anacreon</HI> died by a little &s;tone of a Rai&s;ine that &s;tuck in his throat.</P>
<P><HI>Henry</HI> the Son of <HI>Alphon&s;us</HI> the 8. King of <HI>Ca&s;tile,</HI> while play|ing with his Comrads, was &s;truck dead by a Slate falling off a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;e upon his head.</P>
<P><HI>John</HI> the Duke of <HI>Britainie,</HI> and &s;everal others with him, were c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;hed to death by the fall of a Wall.</P>
<P><HI>Alexander</HI> the Emperor, Son of <HI>Ba&s;ilus,</HI> and <HI>Atti</HI> King of <HI>Pannonia,</HI> both died of a great bleeding at the no&s;e.</P>
<P>Old <HI>A&s;chylus</HI> a Poet in <HI>Sicilie,</HI> beeking him&s;elf at the Sun, under the open air, was &s;uddenly &s;lain, by the fall of a Tor|toi&s;e on his bald Pate, which an Eagle taking, it &s;eems, for a &s;tone, let the Tortoi&s;e fall on it, that thereby breaking the &s;hell, &s;he might get the meat.</P>
<P><HI>Themigenes</HI> died of vomiting after his &s;upper.</P>
<P><HI>Antoninus Pius</HI> died &s;leeping.</P>
<P><HI>Otto</HI> the third Emperor died by the infecton of a pair of poi&s;oned Gloves.</P>
<P><HI>Frider.</HI> 1. <HI>Barbaro&s;&s;a</HI> Emperor, was drowned &s;wiming.</P>
<P><HI>Henry</HI> the 3. Emperor, taking too great a mouthful of bread, died eating.</P>
<P><HI>Dru&s;ius Pompeius, Claudius Ce&s;ars</HI> Son, playing with a piece Pear, and throwing it up, to intercept or kepp it in his mouth, it fell &s;o far into his throat, that it choaked him immediatly.</P>
<P><HI>Tarqu. Pri&s;cus,</HI> died with a Fi&s;h Bone &s;ticking cro&s;s in his throat.</P>
<P><HI>Fabius</HI> a Roman Senator, was choaked with a Hair in Milk that he was drinking.</P>
<P>O what a &s;mall matter will do frail mans turn, to turn him out of time into eternity, when Gods decreed time is come. Now in con&s;ideration of the&s;e in&s;tances, and the innumerable hazards of death that we are in every moment, and that by in|numerable diver&s;e means and accidents, O let us fear always, and prepare and provide again&s;t all dangers occurrent.</P>
<P>I thought not ami&s;s to in&s;ert here, that in the very <HI>interim</HI> or mean time that I was Writing thir Pa&s;&s;ages of &s;ome &s;udden deaths, I was called for to &s;ee a young Woman, but about a
<PB N="12" REF="7"> year Married, that died the &s;ame day of a few, hours illne&s;s, having the la&s;t night night of her life gone to bed as well i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> health as ever, as her Husband told me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECTION IV.</HI> Motives to prepare for Death.</HEAD>
<P>CHRIST &s;aith, Mat. 24.42, 44. <HI>Watch, for ye know not what hour the Lord doth come,</HI> therefore be ye al&s;o ready: Though there were no more but this one command and adverti&s;ement from our Lords own mouth, it is enough to make us think it our great concern to prepare for death, and to alarm us agree|ably to ply this great work. Be&s;ides the motives we have al|ready touched at, <HI>viz</HI> That death is cer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ain, and the time and manner therof uncertain, we will offer a few more con&s;idera|tions, to per&s;wade and excite you to do what ye can to be in a prepared e&s;tate for approaching death.</P>
<P>We get many fair warnings, and &s;peaking memorials, that we mu&s;t die. Are not &s;ickne&s;s raging, and deaths frequent through the Land? At this day, 'tis ob&s;erved, there are far more Burials than Births; few Families have e&s;caped, where|in there has not been either &s;ick, or dead. When we go to Church or Mercat, do we not mi&s;s many of our Friends, Neigh|bours, and Acquaintances, that a few days or weeks before, were wont to attend the&s;e publick occa&s;ions, as we do, and now where are they? They are gone, and their places of conver&s;e or re&s;idence knows them no more. What is the language of this, but <HI>hodie mini cras tibi?</HI> What's my fate to day, may be thine to morrow. Again, we mu&s;t die but once, we have need to &s;ee that we do it well: We &s;ay and do many things ami&s;s in the ordinary cour&s;e of our life, which we may have lei&s;ure and helps to amend and rectifie, but not to die well, can ne|ver be helped, <HI>now or never</HI> is the time of preparing for death, for <HI>as the tree falls &s;o will it ly;</HI> if thou unhappily happen to die in a gracele&s;s unconverted e&s;tate, without God, and without Chri&s;t, thou dies al&s;o without hope, for there is no hope in the grave whither we go; there is no more Preaching Faith
<PB N="13" REF="7"> and Repentance after time, no more mercy to be expected of God, no more mediation by Chri&s;t, no more gracious mo|tions of the Holy Spirit; as life leaves you, death will find you, and as death finds you, &s;o will eternity treat you; there|fore it is the living, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he living mu&s;t lay it to heart, and that while they are in the land of hope; for if ye die unprepared, your hopes are afterwards out off for ever, <HI>Eccl.</HI> 9.5, 10. The living know that they &s;hall die but the dead know not any thing. <HI>What&s;oever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work nor device, nor knowledge, nor wi&s;dom in the grave whither thou goe&s;t.</HI> I&s;ai. 38.18. <HI>The grave cannot prai&s;e thee, death cannot celebrate thee, they that go down to the pit can|not hope for thy truth.</HI> Remember al&s;o that when the Harbin|gers of Death come, though thou &s;houlde&s;t pray him with &s;trong cryes and tears to &s;pare thee yet a little while, that thou maye&s;t be better prepared ere thou go hence to be no more: None of thy Rea&s;ons or Rhetorick will prevail to reprieve thee one moment his &s;trict orders he mu&s;t put to pre&s;ent peremp|tory execution; one breathings re&s;pite I &s;ay thou neede&s;t not exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct: For as it is, <HI>Job</HI> 14.5. <HI>Thy days are determined, the number of thy months are with God, he hath appointed thy bou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ds that thou can&s;t not pa&s;s:</HI> it is impo&s;&s;ible either to anticipate or tran&s;gre&s;s the &s;et and definite time and period of Gods unal|terable decree and appointment. And is there not a great deal of &s;trong rea&s;on ye &s;hould prepare for death, even more than a parity, with re&s;pect to other cares and con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erns, this being the care of cares. If ye have Debts or Accounts to give in to any that owes you, will you not take time to Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ract them, and to fit and &s;et them in order: Now have you not Counts to clear with God? Are ye not deep in his Debt? What innumerable debts of &s;ins, and debts of mercies, and of time and other Talents, are you in Arrears of to God? And have you not ju&s;t ground to expect that he will call you to an account? <HI>Matth.</HI> 25.19. <HI>After a long time the Lord of the&s;e &s;er|vants came and reckoned with them.</HI> If you are to take a voy|age, or to go a journey, are ye not concerned to provide for them? And have ye not a far journey and dangerous voyage to go, that are to land at times end, in the a&s;toni&s;hing Aby&s;s of Eternity, and perhaps knows not whether in Heaven or Hell? If you are to come into the pre&s;ence of a King of Clay,
<PB N="14" REF="8"> will ye not as <HI>Jo&s;eph, Gen.</HI> 41.14. put your &s;elves in your be&s;t prepared dre&s;s you can, and are ye to appear before the King of kings, and will you not change your dirty raggs, and put on your be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> ornaments? If to engage in Battel, will you not arm and prepare for your own &s;afety? And when to engage in the la&s;t Battel of the Soul at death, will ye adventure naked and Armle&s;s? Have not too many carele&s;s &s;ouls done &s;o? who when to die have been filled with &s;orrowful complaints, and horrible out-cryes, O time, time! Had I time again, how bu|&s;ie and careful would I be, to improve all my hours for better purpo&s;es than I have done, &s;pecially in preparation for my la&s;t hour? As on the contrary, who ever repented their prepa|ring for death? None &s;ure ever had rea&s;on, for the&s;e who are prepared, and in ca&s;e to die well, if God &s;pare them, are al&s;o in ca&s;e to live well, and prepared the better to improve eve|ry lot of life, it brings not death the &s;ooner that we much mind it, and prepare for it. Yea, and not only may the wicked be filled with horror, when to die unprepared, but even many godly, who have died under a cloud, have lamented bitterly, their not being actually &s;o prepared, as they ought to have been; for they have found Satan then &s;et mo&s;t furiou&s;ly upon them, his time being &s;hort, and they being &s;hort of &s;ome of their provi&s;ions again&s;t his a&s;&s;aults: But though they may not be actually prepared, &s;o much as they &s;hould be, yet being habitually prepared, by their gracious and &s;alvifick tran&s;lati|on from death to life, in their Effectual C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing and Conver&s;i|on, they need not &s;o much be in bondage for fear of death, as tho&s;e who are nothing prepared, being in the gall of bitter|ne&s;s, and bond of iniquity. It is indeed a terrible thing for &s;uch, to be &s;urprized unprepared, for they not being meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light, when they enter the gates of death, the gates of Heaven will be &s;hut again&s;t them for ever, and the gates of hell opened, thereby to enter into everla&s;ting torments prepared for them. But ere I pa&s;s from this Head, I would have no holy to think, that when I am thus pre&s;&s;ing preparation, it is only upon the &s;ickly, or dying; no, no, I exhort you who are in mo&s;t e&s;tabli&s;hed like health and vigor, &s;o to number your days, as to apply your hearts to this piece of true wi&s;dom; for it will take our fre&s;he&s;t health, our &s;tronge&s;t w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, our outmo&s;t vigour, as the fitte&s;t &s;ea&s;on for
<PB N="15" REF="8"> this &s;o great and important work; then &s;ure ye will have the le&s;s to do, when &s;ickne&s;&s;es or pains &s;eize upon you, and, many who have re&s;olved, and delayed to do this work, till &s;ick, or to die, have found that either God in his ju&s;tice hath taken heart and hand from them, or that their di&s;ea&s;es and maladies have &s;o di&s;ordered and di&s;tempered both body and mind, that for their hearts they could not get their hearts &s;erious or &s;teddie, in minding their &s;ouls eternity matters; and who knows if they &s;hall get a warning of &s;ickne&s;s before death, for in the twink|ling of an eye they may be &s;natched out of time into eternity, (as you have been hearing of many tragical in&s;tances) not getting &s;o much time allowed them, as to cry for Gods mer|cy. From all which con&s;iderations we earne&s;tly obte&s;t you betimes to prepare for Death, Judgment, and Eternity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECTION V.</HI> Some things to be done in preparation for Death.</HEAD>
<P>SAys <HI>John,</HI> Revel. 14.13. <HI>Ble&s;sed are the dead, which die in the Lord,</HI> whereby we may under&s;tand the thrice ble&s;sful e&s;tate of them who die in Union and Communion with the Lord, in the Faith of the Lord, in peace and reconciliation with the Lord, in hope of being with the Lord for ever, and who are prepared &s;o to be: Now for your help herein, I will &s;ugge&s;t a few nece&s;&s;ary things proper to be practized by you.</P>
<P>Frequently meditate on death and your frail &s;tate of life, let <HI>Memento Mori</HI> be often in your thoughts: For to contem|plate of Mortality and Eternity, may di&s;po&s;e and frame your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">arts to prepare for death and eternity. Take &s;ome &s;hare of thy time &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;ider thy ways, reflect on all the pa&s;&s;ages and periods of thy pa&s;t cour&s;e of life, as much as thou can remember, &s;teep thy thoughts in the deep con&s;ideration of thy great and many &s;ins, till thou win &s;en&s;ibly to know and &s;ee what an evil thing it is, and bitter, to have &s;inned again&s;t God; and when thy heart is affected with a view of all thine iniquities, confe&s;s them fully and particularly before the Lord, and that in all their aggravating circum&s;tances, accu&s;e thy &s;elf
<PB N="16" REF="9"> as worthy of death, wrath, and damnation; repent, and pro|&s;trate thy &s;elf in the mo&s;t humble manner, then, renouncing all thy own righteou&s;ne&s;s as unclean, lay hold on the righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, merits, and mediation of Chri&s;t Je&s;us by faith, be|lieving he is both able and willing to pardon all thine iniqui|ties, and to &s;ave thee from the wrath that is to come. Cove|nant thy &s;elf away to the Lord, avouching thy &s;elf &s;incerely and explicitely to be his Subject and Servant, and avouching with alike plainne&s;s and integrity, his being thy alone Lord and Re|deemer; and having thus entered into per&s;onal Covenant with him, &s;ee thou keep thy Covenant inviolably, al&s;o renew it frequently, and endeavour to carry and walk as becomes a Chri|&s;tian in Covenant with Chri&s;t: Study to lead a holy life, no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> only free of notour vices, but adorned with examplar Chri|&s;tian virtues, &s;uch as good works of Mercy, Charity and Pie|ty: Have on thy Spiritual Armour always, and &s;tand on th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Watch-Towers that thou may&s;t be fenced and &s;hielded again<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the fiery darts of Satan, the &s;nares and temptations of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> world, and the rebellious inordinat affections of thy unmorti+fied fle&s;h. Likewi&s;e keep up thy daily cour&s;e of religious d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ties, devoutly praying to God ilk morning and evening <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> lea&s;t, frequently read the Scriptures, and that with reverenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> attention, and diligence, prai&s;e God thankfully for all th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mercies in thy lot; let thy conver&s;ation be in Heaven, by &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ritual-mindedne&s;s, and fervent meditation on Heavenly an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;piritual things: Neglect no opportunities when in health, the publick Ordinances of God, with the comfortable Congr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+gations of his people; improve them for daily increa&s;e knowledge, growth and exerci&s;e of grace, up-building and &s;tabli&s;hment in the mo&s;t holy Faith: Keep thy mind free fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> earthly cares, and di&s;tracting thoughts, anent the things this vain vexatious world: abandon al&s;o all inclinations malice, revenge, reproach, or any way impairing or injur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thy Neighbours good Name, Per&s;on, or E&s;tate: and when ther through the &s;en&s;ible infirmities o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> old age, or threatn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ymptomes of &s;ickne&s;s, or pre&s;ent dangerous di&s;ea&s;es, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> art under apprehen&s;ions of approaching death, &s;ee thou thy hou&s;e in order, both as to the inward con&s;titution of &s;pirit, and as to the outward di&s;po&s;al and &s;ettlement of
<PB N="17" REF="9" MS="y"> secualr Intere&s;ts and Affairs: And in the la&s;t place, fenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and fortifie again&s;t the fears and terrors of death, which leads to the la&s;t thing I &s;hall offer.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECTION VI.</HI> Antidotes again&s;t the fears of Death.</HEAD>
<P>THat will be a &s;weet and welcome word from the mouth of our Saviour, <HI>Matth.</HI> 25.34. <HI>Come ye ble&s;sed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you.</HI> O what ri&s;ques of death do many run, compa&s;&s;ing Sea and Land, without fear, without fainting, that they may gain &s;ome &s;mall moyetie, or a few crumbs or this peri&s;hing earth? and yet it how little pains are we for the inheritance of an everla&s;ting Kingdom; yea &s;ome are &s;o Epicuri&s;h, or Turki&s;h, that they would even, quite their part and hopes of it, if but freed from death, and &s;ecured in a perpetuated po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of earthly plea&s;ures and riches: It is &s;mall wonder that &s;uch fear their lo&s;s of this life, who have not the pro&s;pect of another after it: But O Believ|er, why do&s;t thou fear death? whereof if thou had&s;t a right notion, there is nothing in it &s;hould be formidable to thee: The valley and &s;hadow of death is a dark, &amp; irk&s;ome pa&s;&s;age, to tho&s;e who go through it &s;olitary and alone; but Chri&s;t hath gone this way to &s;anctifie it to thee, he will be with thee in every &s;tep, he will not not leave thee. This way is &s;trawed with Serpents and Scorpions to the wicked, which will &s;till be &s;tinging and tormenting them, but Chri&s;t hath taken the &s;ting of death for thee, 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.55, 57. Art thou not in union with Chri&s;t? yea, &s;uch a &s;trict and firm union, that neither &s;in nor Satan can break, nor death di&s;&s;olve, <HI>Matth.</HI> 22.32. In the vertue whereof, all Believers, the my&s;tick members of Chri&s;t that glorious Head, &s;hall at the la&s;t day be rai&s;ed unto glory and happine&s;s. I &s;ay indeed the terrors and torments of death are an earne&s;t to the wicked, of tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">effible mi&s;eries that &s;hall follow thereafter: but death will free thee from &s;in
<PB N="18" REF="10"> and mi&s;ery, from all temptations to &s;in, and perils of &s;orrow and make thee for ever triumph over &s;in, Satan, Hell, and Death.</P>
<P>O Believer! Ha&s;t thou not often been filled with many wea|ry complaints in thy life? Death will make them all to cea&s;e: Hath not thy life been &s;ometimes imbittered with exqui&s;it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pain or heavy &s;ickne&s;s? Death will relieve thee of tho&s;e bur|dens. Ha&s;t thou not been in frequent tormentful fears, of cro&s;&s;es, lo&s;&s;es, poverty, or di&s;grace, and other infelicities Common to mankind? It is death that thou &s;o much fears, will di&s;&s;olve all the&s;e fears for ever. Ha&s;t thou not often &s;ighed and &s;orrowed over thy ill plaguie heart? Ha&s;t thou not often cryed out, alas, my hard, my vain, my carnal, my unclean and lu&s;tful, my deceitful and perver&s;e untractable heart! Ha&s;t thou not al&s;o often cryed out, <HI>O wretched man that I am, who &s;hall deliver me from this body of &s;in and death?</HI> O Believer, re|joice in hope, for e're thy body of clay be laid into du&s;t, death will be the death of thy body of &s;in, the old man will be fell'd dead with deaths la&s;t &s;troak, thy corruptions and infir|mities &s;hall never any more be matter of thy grievance or complaint. And as death opens the doors of the Lake, to let in the workers of iniquity, &s;o it will be to thee, O Believer, an in-let to glory, re&s;t and happine&s;s; thou but dies, that thou maye&s;t live; thou but leaves and flits this &s;inful and cumber&s;ome Tabernacle of Clay, that thou maye&s;t go to the glorious Man&s;ion above, not made with hands, but eternal in the Heavens, and who but &s;hould be content with &s;uch a flit|ting? We were telling before, that Chri&s;t will be ready to welcome thee to the fruition of an everla&s;ting Kingdom, and to &s;ay &s;o, thy deaths day will be thy Coronation day; for by death thou &s;hall be immediatly wa&s;ted to glory: What &s;hould we &s;ay more? for eye hath not &s;een, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, what the believer is to enjoy after death.</P>
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