LICIMIFE137211110.19InWiajapiCell. The Epift le Dedicatory. Jcr 33 S. Neff. hough fanelification be a branch of the Covenant ek. 36.2, - of grace a4 well as uflification, yet there are a fort of men in the world, that would not have Chriflians to re- joyce in their faxilification, under a pretence of refl ed- ing cliflionour, upon their free jisfilfication by C There are many who place all their Religion in opinions, in fick notions, in airy Ipeculations, in quaint diku- tations, in immediate Revelations, and in their warm zeal, for this or that form of worfhip. Now, that thefe may be recovered, and healed, and prevented from doing further mifohief in the world, 1 have at this time put to a helping hand. fiut, Fifthly, No man can tell what is in the breafis, in the womb of divine Providence; no man can tell what a a day, a night, an hour, may bring forth. Who can film up she many poffible deaths that are fill lurking in his own bowels, or the innumerable hofts of external dan- gers which beleaguer him on every (ide ? or how many tnvi fible arrows file about his ears continually ? and how foon he may have his mortal wound given him by one of them,who can tell ? Now, how fad would it be for a man to have a fiarnmons to appear before god in that other world, before his heart and life is changed, and his evi- dences for heaven cleared op to him ? The life of man is but a fhadow, a poft, a fpan, a vapour, a tlovver, Though there it but one way to cow into the world, ye there are many thoufand wages to be fent out of the world.; and this Amid belpeak every Chriflian to have his evi- dences for heaven alwayes ready and at hand, yea in his hand as well a in his heart, and then he will find it an eafie thing to die. Ike King of terrors will then be the King of defies to him,aNd he will then travel to glory tin- Tharacbmo- ni had their graves before their doort.The Sybarites at Banquets had a deaths head delivered from hand to hand by every vial at the Table. The Egyptians in the midft of their Feafis) ufed to have the Anatomy of a dead man let before them, as a memorandum to the guefts of their mortality. The poor flea - .hen could fay, thatthe whole :life of man
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