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23 ake them all to ceaſe: Hath not thy life en ſometimes is bittered with exquiſite pain heavy ſickneſs; Death will relieve the of oſe burdens. Haſt thou not been in ſ e- ent tormenting fears of croſſes loſſes, po- perty or diſgrace and other infilicies common to mankind? it is death that then ſo much fears, will diſſolve ail theſe fears for or ever. Haſt thou not often ſigh’d and for- owed over thy ill plagu'd heart? Haſt thou ot often cried out, alas! my hand, my vain, my carnal, my unclean, and luſtful, my de- eitful and perverſe untractable heart? Haſt hou not often cried out O wretched man hat I am, who ſhall deliver me from this bo- ly of ſin and death?' O believer rejoice in ope for e'er thy body of clay be laid into duſt, death will be the death of thy body of ſin, the old man will be fell'd dead with death's laſt ſtroke thy corruptions and infir- mitis ſhall never any more be matter of thy grievance and complaint. And as death op- ens the doors of the lake to let in the workers of iniquity ſo it will be to thee. O believer, an inlet to glory red and happineſs; thou but flies that thou mayeſt live; thou but lives and flies in ſinful and cumberſome tabernacle of clay, that thou mayeſt go to the glorious manſion above not ade with hands but eternal in the heavens, and