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( 14 ) Children in Cradles often feel the ſmart,

Of conquering Death the King of Terrors Dart,

Therefore, O Man, why are thou overjoy'd,

When all thou haſt may quickly be deſtroy'd,

If any ſtormy blaft of Sickneſs blow,

All Features paſſeth like a Minute ſhow,

Alas, poor Worm, what Thing can thou call thine,

But ſudden Death may quickly ſay 'tis mine:

Behold thy Frailty! See thy Glaſs does run!

Therefore repent before the Time is gone.

Both Young and Old have this before your Eye,

You're born to Happineſs or Miſery.

Think at Chriſt's coming, you muſt then ariſe

And there be judged at the Great Aſſize.

Matth. xxiv. 14. Watch therefore, for you know not what Hour the Lord doth come.

The Manner of Chriſt's coming. Serene, like as the Days of Noah were,

Soſhall the coming of our Lord appear:

Eating and Drinking they will merry make,

And carnal Souls Security will take,

Juſt like a Theif who cometh in the Night,

So will the Son of Man in Glory bright,

Come down with numerous Angels, and the ſound

Of Trumpets ſhril, unnerving thus the Ground,

Ye Dead ariſe; Lord what a Horror here

Is to the Wicked, who muſt ſrtaight appear,

And come to Judgment! O how this begins,

To bring to mind their many wretched Sins.

Conſcience immediately appears and muſt

Be the ſad Soul's accuſing Witneſs firſt;

Hanging their Heads, cannot endure the Shocks,

of God's revenging Wrath, then to the Rocks,

They run in vain, moſt miſerable Elves,

To ſeek fome ſhelt'ring Place to hide themſelves.

Then are they ſeparated as they ſtand.

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