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 70 Anne Bradjlrccf s Works.

our great landlord to let. All haue their bounds let, ouer which they cannot pafle, and till the expiration of that time, no dangers, no ficknes, no paines nor troubles, fhall put a period to our dayes; the certainty that that time will come, together wnth the vncer- tainty how, where, and when, fliould make vs fo to number our dayes as to apply our hearts to wifedome, that when wee are put out of thefe houfes of clay, we may be lure of an euerlafting habitation that fades not away.

LXXI.

\ LL weak and difeafed bodys haue hourly me- ^ ^ mentos of their mortality. But the foundeft of men haue likwife their nightly monitor by the em- bleam of death, which is their fleep (for fo is death often calld), and not only their death, but their graue is liuely reprefented before their eyes, by beholding their bed; the morning may mind them of the refur- re6lion; and the fun approaching, of the appearing of the Sun of righteoufnes, at whofe comeing they fhall all rife out of their beds, the long night fhall fly away, and the day of eternity fhall neuer end: feeing thefe things muft be, what manner of perfons ought we to be, in all good converfation ?

LXXII.

\ S the brands of a fire, if once fevered, will of •^ ^ themfelues goe out, altho you vfe no other meanes to extinguiih them, fo diftance of place, to-

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