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14 ſo it will ly. If thou unhappily happen to dis in a graceleſs unconverted eſtate, with out God and without Chriſt, thou dieſt alſo without hope for there is no hope in the grave whither we go, there is no more preaching faith and repentance after time, no more mercy to be expected of God no more meditation by Chriſt, no more gracious motions of the boy ſpirit; as life leaves you death will find you, and as death finds you; ſo will eternity at you, therefore it is living, the lying muſt lay it to heart, and that while they are in the land of haps; for if you die unprepared, your hopes are afterwards cut off for ever, Eccl ix. 5. 10. The living know that they ſhall die, but the dead know not any thing, Whatſoever thy thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device or knowledge, nor wiſdom in the grave, whither thou goeſt. Iſa xxxviii IS The grave cannot praiſe thee, death cannot celebrate thee, they that down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth Remember alſo that when the harbinger of death came, though thou ſhouleſt pray him with ſtrong cries and tears to ſpare thee yet a let while that thou mayeſt be better prepared e'er thou go from hence no more to be ſeen: none of tay reaſons o rhetoric will prevail to reprieve the one moment, his ſtrict orders he muſt put to preſen