7o 'The Life of GOD fery. Thus we may encounter felf-love with its own weapons, and employ one n~tural inclination for reprdllng the exor– bttancies of:another. Let- us therefore ac– cuftom ourfelves to confider ferio~fly, \vhat a fearful thing it mufi: needs be, to irritate and offen_d that infinite Being on who1n we hang and depend every mo– n1ent; who needs but to withdraw his n1crcies to make us miferable, or his af– fifiance to make us nothing. Let us fre~ qucntly retnember the ihortnefs and un– certainty of our lives; ~and how that, after we have taken a few turns more in the world, and converfed a little longer a– n1ongft men, we mufi: all go down unto the dark and iilent grave, and carry no– thing along with us but anguiih and re– grate for all our finful enjoyments: and then think what horror tnuft needs feize the guilty foul, to find itfelf naked and ·all alone before the fevere and impartial judge of the world, to render an exact accoun!, not only of its tnore important and confi– fiderable tranfaCl:iems, but of every word that the tongue bath uttered, and fwiftdl: ·and mofl fecret thought that ever paffed -through the mind. Let us fometimes re– prefent unto ourfelv~s the terror of that dreadful day, when the foundation of the earth
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