371 / 674
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
religion
and
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
guard
upon you,
that
while your
elder
sister
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, my
Lady,
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
future
years
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, to
demand an
account of their behaviour, and
to
distribute hisrecotn=
peuc
saccording
to
their
works.
'There are.two
of these
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