The Epiftle Dedicatory, under a fpirit of joy and triumph. We carry about in ,our bodies the matter of a thoulind deaths, and may die a thoufandfeveral wages feveral hours : As many fenfes, as many members, nay as many pores as there are in the body, fo many windows there are for death to enter in at. Death needs not fpend all his arrows upon us, a worth, a Griat,a Fly,. a Hair, &Pile _Of a a ker- nel of a Grape, the fall of a Horfe, the fumble of a Foot, the prick of a Pin,the pairing of aNall,the cutting one of a Corn ; all thefe have been to ethers, and any of them may be to us, the means of our death within the fpace of a few dayes, nay of a few hours. Don't it therefore highly concern its to have our evidences for heaven cleared, fealed,Aining and at hand. Nataralifis tell us, That if a man fees a Cockatrice fiat, the Cockatrice dieth 5 but if the Cockatrice fees a man firft, the man dies. Certainly, if we fo fee deg th as to preparefor it, as to get our evidences for heaven ready, we (hall kill it 5 but if death reef us firfi,and arrefis to MI before we are pre. pared, and before BUY evidences for heaven are cleared, it will kill as everlartingly, it will kill as eternally. Time travel eth with God's decrees, and in their feafon brings th-41i forth ; but little cloth any man know what is in the womb of to morrow, id God bath fignified his will by the event. 13J4tft no thy Pelf of to morrow, for thou know& not wl-Lt a day may bring forth. That man that knows what' himrelf intends to bring forth, does not knoa? what the dal will bring forth ; the next day ra not p neer the forme?, in time, as it may be remote from it in the efU:as o' iv Seneca could fay, of miferius dribitatione i7nienttum, quo evaclunt 5 There is no. thing more mifrr4ble than the doubtfainefs of things to Come,to what fley will come. Providence in this life is a the Chould be medi- tatio mortis, a meditation of death. Dwelt upon that,Detit, Prov. 27. I. Seneca, Epift. oz.
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