f 0c-ca./ions of Sorrow. 24.5 of fee/ring glory, honour, and immortality, S E R M. by a patient continuance in well-doing ; for X. there is no labour, nor wifdom, nor device, nor `-v--' knowledge in the grave. It mud therefore be our wifdom, and greatly for our advantage, to enter into an affebing confederation of this important fub- je &, that we may ad the part becoming us with refpcb to it, and make the neceflary preparation for our inevitable fate. This is one reafon by which Solomon enforces his advice, to choofe going to the houle of mourning, or habituating our minds to a ferious and deliberate refleâion on mortality, for, lays he, the living will lay it to his heart; which expreflion imports fomething more than barely confidering it. The fame objet, it is certain, may appear to the mind in very different lights ; the underftanding may enquire into it, even accurately, may examine its nature, its various properties and relations, yet with the utmod coldnefs and indifference ; it is the affetions, and a par- ticular application to ourfelves, that deter- mine the importance of things, excite emo- tion, and have an influence on the temper and practice. How calmly and unconcern- edly do men think and fpeak of objeäs and R 3 events
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