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 to part with all for Chriſt; to lay down your life for Chriſt, to loſe all to ſave your ſoul, and gain eternity. Many of you riſe up early, and go late to bed at night, and eat the bread of ſorrow all the day, and load yourſelves with thick clay; and I am ſure, that ſuch perſons being night and day taken up with the world, are not prepared for death.

I remember a word recorded of a wicked man, who was exceeding rich: ſaid he, I would give many thouſands of pounds if death would but give me one day longer: he got it not, and how ſuddenly may death ſurpriſe any of you as it did him. Therefore prepare for death. An admirable young child about five years of age, ſaid to his mother when his father was dead, the being often grieving for the loſs of her huſband, Grieve not mother, tho' my father be dead, yet God is alive, and from that day to the day of her death, ſhe never grieved more. My advice and council unto young perſons is, that you will pray to God and God will hear you,