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10 Neither the charms of Beauty, nor the fineſt amiable complexions move death to pity or ſpare, he is ſo load of his can ghoſty countenance that he will have all look like himſelf: lowly beauty. I ſay the common chain of mortals For he'll make their beauty to conſume away like a moth Pſal. xxxix 11. Yea their beauty ſhall confuse in the grave Pſal xlix 14 What what the ſhall be the ſheild againſt the days of death? if none of theſe can be a armour of proof will not piery and virtue or fence and ſanctuary? No no, for all fleſh is graſs! even grace and godlineſs that may make immortal after time, will not ſave any mortal from temporal death Haiah lviii The righteous periſheth, and merciful men are taken away, Heb xi 13 The apoſtle ſpeaking of bel Enoch, eah Abraham, Moſes, and other holy men of God, ſons of them Theſe al died faith: ley thine account then, whoſoever thou art, that ſoon of ſyne thou muſt die

SECTION III

The time and way of Death is uncertain.

MORTAL; are obnoxious moun er- miſcheivious misfortunes fatal accidents, and urtimely deaths, ſays Eliphas, J v y Man is born into trouble, as the ſparks flee upward. No man knoweth what