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13 larm us agreeably to ply this great work. Beſides the motives we have already touched at, viz, that death is certain, and the time & manner thereof uncertain, we will offer a few more conſiderations to perſuade and excite you to do what you can to be in a prepared eſtate for anproaching death.

We get many fair warnings and ſpeaking merorials that we muſt die Are not ſickneſs raging and death's frequent through the land? at this day it as obſerved, there are far more burials than births; ſaw families have eſcaped where there line not best either ſick or dead When we go to church or market, do we not many of our friends, neighbour and acquaintances that a few days or weeks before, it at to attend theſe public occaſions, as we do, and now where are they? they are gone and their places of converſe or confidence knew them no more. What is the language's this? but bodie nihi cra tihi? What's y fate to way be thine to-morrow. Again we muſt die but once we have ed to ſee t at we do it well: we ſay and we do many things an iſs in the odinary courſe of our site, which we have leiſure and helps amend and rectify, but not to die well, can never be helped, now or never is the time of preparing for death for as the tree falls