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Rh the laſt and leaſt is our thoughts, which ſpeaks our=t much ſtupidity unbelief, anp impiety; for if we did really believe as we ſay we do, that after our natural death there is life and death of another nature viz eternal life, and the econd death, unto one of which we ſhall be doom'd as the great day of judgement, we ſhould ſurely be more concerned that generally we are, to prepare for death, and lay hold on eternal life: thoſe are matters of the greateſt conſequence, all our other ſecular concerns, and temporal cares and intereſts are but trifles and vanities in compariſon hereof; Yet alas! ſee we not the greateſt part of the infatuated children of men madly purſuing to graſp and poſſeſs this world, and to take all their preſent pleaſures in time, as if they were to live a ſenſual life for ever? or if they were neither heaven nor hell after it: Eccl. ix. 3. The heart of the of men is full of evil, and madneſs is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. But my friend whoever thou art that reads theſe Lines, ſure I am thou art a mortal, therefore remember thou muſt die: For what man is he that liveth and ſhall not ſee death? Pſal. lxxxix, 48 My deſign is as ſuccinctly as I can to ſet before thee a few things of death, and preparations for it, which are diſcourſed in theſe ſix ſections following.