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11 cene or ſhare of temptation and tribulations may be ime him ere he go off the ſtage of ime but all having fione all may dread to partake the bitter fruits of ſin; every day we may oehold ſome ſpectacle of miſery; every day brings news of ſomebody or other that is viſited with diſaſters and diſtreſſes. To prevent a tedious enlargement is on that head, take a ſort ſynopſis of ſome of the common woes miſeries of the world

But that we may come cloſer to the main purpoſe of this ſection viz. that the time and way of death is undertain we will narrate in n an hiſtorical account of ſeveral perſons who have been ſuddenly ſnatched out of the world, and ſome of them came to very tragical ends, by ſtrange and unexpected ways and means: it would be an endleſs work to ſpecify all even the ordinary diſeaſes whereby people are in jeopardy, daily of having the thread of life cut; neither is it poſſible to gueſs at, or fartel all the fatal accidents whereby our Death may be compaſſed, for life and breath is at the unavoidable reverence and diſpoſal of the abſolute Lord of life and death who hath any arrows in his quiver and variety of inſtruments of death, which ſhould make us, who are certain that we muſt die, and uncertain where or