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AEAT1i OF MANKIND
1,1\1PROVED.
[SEAM,
XLI.
a
year, and
buy,
and
sell,
and
get gain
;
whereas
ye
knew
not
what
will
be
on
the morrow
?
For what
is
your
life?
It
is
even
a
vapour,
thatappeareth
for
a little
time,
and
then vanisheth
away
;
for
that
ye
ought
to
say,
if
the
Lord
will, we
shall live to do this
or
that
;
James
iv.
13-15.
And
it
is
the same inference
that
holy
David
makes
more
than
once
upon a survey
of
the mortality of
man, in
the Psalms
just
before cited.
"
Lord, what
wait
I
for
?
My hope
is
in
thee
;
Ps.
xxxix.
7.
Happy
is
he
that
bath
the
God of
Jacob
for
his
help,
whose
hope
is
in
the Lord
his
God,
who
keepeth
truth
for ever;"
Ps..
cxlvi.
5,
6.
" The
Lord
is
an
everlasting
friend, he
lives
when
creatures
die,
and
fulfils his
word
of truth,
when the
words
of
princes perish with their breath."
2.
The death
of
mankind
in
general
sliews us
the
dreadful
evil
and..
desert of
sin.
It
discovers to us
the
awful
holiness
and terrible Majesty
of
God
;
and
it
teaches
us
what
a sublime
value he
puts upon
his own
law,
and
how
fearfully
he avenges
the
violation
of it.
I
join
these
three
things together,
because
they
stand
sp
nearly connected
in
the
divine economy.
(1.)
The
universal .death
of
mankind
shews
us,
what
a
dreadful and
heinous evil
there is
in
sin,
and,
what
wide
destruction it
has
deserved.
By
one
man sin
entered
into the
world;
and
death
by
sin,
and
so
.death
passed
upon
all
men,
for
that
all
have
sinned;
Itoni.
v. 12.
For
the
wages
of
sin
is
death, Rom.
vi.
23.
Man
was
made
innocent,
and
while he
continued obedient,
he
was
immortal
:
Transgression
and
death
came in
together:
A
formidable pair
!
Two dreadful names,
big with
mischief
and ruin to human nature.
When
we see tbe..dying
agonies
of
poor mankind, our
fellow-
creatures, our brethren
in
flesh
and
blood,
let
us
remember the
sin
of
our
common
father,
that
first
sub-
jected
him
and all
his
posterity
to
death; and
let
us
reflect
upon
the
dreadfirl
evil
that
is
contained
in
the nature
of
every
sin
;
for
it
deserves death
at
the hand
of
God.
Alas, how
often has
the
best
of
us
deserved to
die,
for
our
transgressions have been multiplied without number.
(2.)
The.death
of
all
mankind
makes
a
solemn
disco-
very
to
us,pf
the
terrible Majesty of God and the justice
that attends
his
government.
He
will
not
pass
by
the
guilt
of
his rebellious creatures, without
a due
resentment
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