370 ¡tin Poo? anofamíip Zook. the fervice of God and your falvation, and will give true comfort to a dying man. But if all your plenty prepare but for this farewel,. (el) Thou fool, this night pall thyfoul be required of thee, and then whole fhall all thefe things be which thou haft provided ? fuch a parting isnot worth fo dear a price. Read?fain; 49.6, 7,13,14. S. VI/hat other benefit canyouget by4 the thoughts of death ? P. 3. Death is the great difgracer of Pride. h will tell youwhether it be feemly for him to look big, and boaft and domineer to dai, who mull fhortly be buried in the fociety of bones and duty indarknefs. O can that man be proud, that is going toanfwer for all his fins, before that God that hateth Pride, and mull: leave his beloved body in theEarth ? fwelling with haughti- nefs to day, and in the grave and perhaps in Hell to morrow ? Is it congruous todrefs that body with need- lefs coil andcuriofity, and fpend precious time in ador- ningof that flefh, whichmull fo quickly rot and flink ? The grave is the Looking-glafs which will teach proud gallants how to drefs them, If they faw but what is now within them, they would think that fuch dung and guts did fcarce well fuit with fuch curious Coverings if you did but now fee and frnell one of your Neighbours Carkaffes, which was bury d a year or two ago, would you think it fuicable for him to be proud that muffi come to this ? That skull and thefe- bones retain°no figns of the proud mans glory. O foolifh mortals, if you know not and remember not, that youmull come, and quiek- lycome to this I (d) Lhks 322O. S. YYhat
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