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AMIN
383
SURPRIZE
IN
DEATH.
tDISC.
III.
borders
of
the
grave, and
will
you
venture
to
drop
in
before your hopes
of
life
and immortality
are
secured,
and a joyful resurrection
?
You
pass,
perhaps,
many
nights, wherein the infirmities
of
your
flesh will
not
suf-
fer
you
to-
sleep,
and to take
that
common
refreshnìent
of nature;
and
shall
not
these
same infirmities keep
you
awake to things spiritual, and rouse
all
your
thoughts
and
cares,
about
your immortal
interests
?
2.
You,
whose
circumstances or employments
of
Iife
expose you
to
perpetual
dangers,
either
by land
or
by
sea;
you, who
carry your
lives,
as
it
were, in
your
hand, and
are, often
in
a
day, within
a
few
inches
of
death
;
is
it
not
necessary for
you to enquire, daily, Am
I prepared
for a
departure
hence
?
Am
I
ready to
hear
the
sum-
mons
of
my
Lord,
and ready
to
give
up
my
account
be-
fore
him
?
Shall
I
dare
go
on
another
day with
my
sins
unpardoned,
with
my
soul unsanctified,
and
in
imme-
diate danger
of
eternal
misery
?
A fall from a horse,
or
a
house -top,
may send you down to
the
pit,
whence
there
is no
redemption;
every wind
that
blows,
and every
rising
wave may
convey you into the
eternal
world,
and
are
you
ready to meet
the
great God
in
such
a
surprise,
and without warning
?
3.
You
who
are
young,
and vigorous, and flourish
amidst
all
the
gaieties and
allurements
of
.life,
you
are
in most
danger
of
being lulled asleep
in sin,
and there-
fore
I
addressed
you
lately
in
a funeral
discourse, when
the present
providence
gave
each
of
you
a
new
and loud
call
to
'awae,
and
I
pray
God
you may
hear
his
voice
in
it.
4.
Perhaps
others
of
you
are arrived
at
old age,
and
the course
of nature
forbids you
to
expect
a
long conti
-.
nuance
in
the
land
of
the
living
:
Are
any
of
my
hearers
ancient
sinners, and asleep
still
?
Venturous
and thought-
less
creatures
!
that
have grown old
in
slumber, and
worn
out their
whole life in
iniquity
!
Surely,' it
is
time,
for
you to
hear
the
voice
of
the
Son
ofGod
in
the
gospel,
and accept of
his salvation
:
Behold,
the
judge
is
at
the
door
!
he comes speedily,
and he
will
not tarry
:
his
herald
of
death
is
just at
hand
:
Are
you willing
he
should
seize
you
in
a deadly
sleep,
and
send you into
eternal
sorrows
?
And let
aged
christians bestir
themselves,
and
awake from
their
slothful
and
secure frames
of
spirit;