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364 is Clear, Strong and Edifying: We are either not to Fear Death at all, or to Fear it every moment of our Lives; nay, and in all the Forms that ever it appear'd in, which will put us to uch a tand, that we hall not dare even to Live for fear of Dying. We mut neither Eat, nor Drink, nor Breathe, nor Sleep, if we come once to Boggle at Preidents, and at the doing of thoe things over again, that ever any Man dy'd of before. There is not one intant of Life in fine, but may be our Lat. Beide, that we Live, not only in the daily Danger of Death, but in a continual Certainty of it: So that the Quetion is not how, or of what this or that Man Dy'd, but the Inevitable Fate and Mortality of Mankind. One Man dies in his Bed, another at Sea, a Third in the Field; this Man of one Accident, or Ditemper, that of another: And what is there more in all this now, then o many everal ways to the ame Journeys End? There is no uch Preervative againt the Fear of Death, as the Concience of a Good Life; and if we would have it Eaie, we mut make the Thought of it Familiar to us.

Here was a Devillih Sly Cat it eems, in a certain Houe; and the Mice were o Plagu'd with her at every turn, that they call'd a Court to Advie upon ome way to prevent being urprizd. If you'll be Rul'd by me, (ays a Member of the Board,) there's nothing like Hanging a Bell about the Cats Neck, to give Warning before-hand, when Pus is a coming. They all lookt upon't as the bet Contrivance that the Cae would bear. Well (ays another) and now we are agreed upon the Bell, ay who hall put it about the Cats Neck. There was no body in fine that would Undertake it, and o the Expedient fell to the Ground.

is the coure of the World, to the very Life, we can never want Adviers and Councellors in Matters of the Greatet Hazzard: But let the Reaon be never o clear, we are till at a Los for an Intrument to put Dangerous Projects in Execution.

Deperate Caes require Deperate Remedies; but let the Hazzard of this or that Part of a Body be what it will, it is matter of Duty, Jutice and Policy to conult the Good of the whole. It was the Interet of