DISC. II. THE WATCHFUL CHRISTIAN DYING IN PEACE. 351 crown. Take heed to yourselves, that you lose not the things which yoü have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward." Go on, and persevere, as you have begun, in the path of true religionand happiness : And, in this age of infidelity- and degenerate life, be ye daily more established in the christian faith and practice; in opposition to the smiles, and frowns, and every snare of a vain delusive world. Let this one thought set a double guardupon you, thatwhile your eldersister was with you, it was something easier to resist every temptation: when she had pronounced the first re- fusal : Her steadiness was a guard, which you have now lost, but you have an almighty. God in covenant on your side, and " the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for you." To -his care, myLady, I commend yourself, and your whole family, . with affectionate petitions, and am, MADAM, Your Ladyship's most obligéd, And faithful servant, London, April 28, 1732. I. WATTS. DISCOURSE II. TIIE WATCHFUL CFIRISTIAN DYING IN PLACE A FUNERAL SERMON, &C. IT is an awful providence, whicü hath lately removed from ainong us a young person, well known, to most of you, whose agreeable temper and cominct had gained the esteem of all her acquaintance, whose constitution of body, together with the furniture of her mind, and circumstances M. the world, concurred to promise many futureyears of life and usefulness. But all that is born of the race of man is frail and mortal, and all that is done, by the hand, pf God, is wise and holy. We mourn, and we submit in silence. Yet the providence bath a voice in it; and the friends of -the deceased are very solicitous, that such an unexpected and instructive ap- pearance of death might be religiously improved to the benefit of the living. For this end I am,desired to.eitertain you, at present, with some meditations on those words of our Sayiour, which you read in LUKE Xii. 37. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord.,. when -he cometh, shall find watching. VARIOUS, and well chosen; - are those parables, whereby our Saviour -gave warning to his disciples, that, when he was departed from this world, they should ever be upon their guard, and always in ' readiness to receive him at his return; because he would come on a sudden, and " in such an hour as they thought not, todemand an account of their behaviour, and to distribute hisrecotn= peuc saccording to their works. 'There are.two of these 4
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