2 Nature's Good-night, r Cor. i i, 26. sapiens femper lucipit Oat. John 8.44. Mask p, 4:. flack, obi tanta ell confolatio, Be not yefad becaufe your friend, it gone to a fiate of lay. 4. r N Lute f dried at tlepartipe, vilflet ; tear,,) Fajtl1gladned with ho sei .meëti g a ln,¡'wi a*Y ttagtea *MSc íoç;tvjch the decreesicf El en, aor-3 th arthe p'roceduves6 its providetìce; Comas God that clofed her eyes in -fleep, that forbids your eyes to weep. Weep not, (for) sfhe únot dead but rat fleepeth. The divifion of this Text is made to my hands by themeering of this Congre- gation: three parties are vifible inthaprefence, which difcover three parts legible in the words : 1; The . Dead, -r-- - .$het., , The Mourners, All i. wept. The Preacher, he laid, Weep 3. not. Thefe parts, upon reveiw, are like ehofe theep, Cant. 4. a. whereof every one bears twins c I. Her. Perfon. r, In the Dead is confiderable z. Her Condition: Age Short. her hut.-- In perfon 2Sex Wretched. Negative, not dead. is_ Her Condition, which Affirmative, butfleepeth. ' r. Number of Mourners, All. t, I_n the Mourners-remarkable z, Weight of Mourning, Wept end be-; wailed. r. His Dosirine - Weep not. In 2. His Reafon, for 3. thepreacher_.. ye miftake her cafe She wnot dead, &c. `' , Begin we with the Dead : But is not mors ultima linea ? Death the lafl ? ,halt 416 Taft be Tuft ? Is not Deaththe end ? ,hall we begin at the end ? Yes wife men do fo; our endeavours, thoughts, devotions, come to no end, if nor begun at the end to come. --Remember thy beginning and thou wilt ,(eldom do amifs, (that daft will allay thy pride;) but remember thy end and thou wilt never, (ehofe allies will quench thy wild- fires.) The confideration of Death gives life ro our confrderarions ; and our thoughts do then flourifh, when we are thinking our thoughts .shall perifh. The Egyptians fold their funeral balms in the Temple of Yenta ; that where they prayed for Nativity, they might be remembred of Mortality : our firft voice is Crying, our Baptifm a Burial, our firft Charaéter Chrift-crops, -the tree of Death; nor is it improper to enter early on death for our inftru&ion, fince deathencred fo early on us for our De- ftruétion, even from the beginning; awoman Speaking with the ill fpirit brought death firft to our party, in counter-working by the good fpirit, we in the be- ginning will, (peak of a woman brought to her death, which is the firft party, Shee. She was of the age of twelve years, as is marked by the Evangelifts; mile- cable brevity, is it not? for if one thoufand years upon account with eternity, make not up one prefent day, are but as yeferday paft, worn our, and gone, as it is Pfel. 90. 4, Surely twelve years, nay fts-etch life to its old (tandard-number of feventy, and all will not amount to an hour, a minute; no, a minute may challenge
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