Spiritual Per fe1ion: 319 the Pfalrraifl, The San knows its going down : when arrived at the Meridian Circle, and ihining in his richeft Beams, the revolution is certain, and he fets in the Evening. So when thofe who are - in their higheft elevation of Honour , underftand themfelves, and with fober- and fad thoughts confider they muff ihortly decline, and fet in the dark - Grave, 'tis the effeEt of excellent Vertue. - When thofe who from a mean Conditi- on, come to abound in Riches, do not fet their hearts on them , remembering they often take Wings and fly to the Heavens, and the Poífeífors muff fhort-- ly fall to the Earth, when they do not furniih provifions for their Lufts and Licentioufnefs, but ufe them with dif-- cretion, when they employ them for- Sacred and Merciful Ufes, confidering- they are not Proprietors but Stewards, when they confider 'their Receipts and Expences, and the ftria Account they- muft give of all, this adorns the Go -- fpel. And in the fudden Fall from a Prod fperous, into a Calamitous Condition, when a Man looks upward to the Soveraign Difpofer of all Events, with meek Subtïiflion; and refign themfelves to
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