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21 mpairing or injuring thy neighbour's good aine, person, or estate: & when either thro' he sensible infirmities of old age, or threatning symptoms of sickness, or present dange- ous diseases, thou art un ler apprehensions f approaching death, see thou sit thy house order, both as to the inward constitution f thy spirit, and as to the outward disposal nd settlement of thy secular interests and and in the last place fence and fortify myself against the fears and terrors of death, which leads to the last subject I shall consider f.

SECTION IV.

Antidotes against the Fears of Death.

THAT will be sweet and welcome word from the mouth of our Saviour, Matth, xxv 34 Come ye blessed of my father, in- serit the kingdom prepared for you. O what isks of death do many run, compassing ea and land, without, fear, without fain- ing; that they may gain some small moiety, or a few crumbs of this perishing earth? and ye at how little pains are we for the nheritance of an everlasting kingdom; yea ome are so epicurish, or turkish, that they would even quit their part and hopes of it, f but freed from death, and secured in perpetuated possession of earthly pleasures