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 find thee, when he calls for thee; tho' thou loſeſt every Thing elſe in the World, yet, O Man! have a Care to keep thy Soul, be willing to part with All for Chriſt, to lay down your Life for Chrift, to loſe All, to ſave your Soul, and gain Eternity. Many of you riſe up early, and go late to Bed at Night, and eateth bread of Sorrow all the Day, and loadeth yourſelves with thick Clay; and I am ſure that ſuch Perſons, being Night and Day taken up with the World, are not prepared for Death; I remember a Word recorded of a wicked Man, who was exceeding rich; ſaid he. I would give ſo many Thouſands of Pounds, if Death would but give me one Day longer, yet he got it not; and how ſuddenly may Death furprize any of you, as it did him, therefore prepare for Death An admireable young Child of about fire Years of Age, ſaid to his Mother, when his Father was dead, the being often grieved for the Loſs of her Husband, Grieve not Mother, tho my Father is dead, yet God is alive, and from that Day, to the Day of her Death, ſhe never grieved any more. My Advice and Counfel to Young Perfons is this. That you will pray to God, and God will hear you; For I love them that love me, and they that ſeek me early ſhall find me; if you have Regard to your own eternal Happineſs, it ought to be your chiefeſt