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 ments, and run the Race that is ſet before you.

The whole Deſign and Aim of this Difcourſe is, to warm the Heart and enrich the Conſcience, and direct the Life, to teach Men how to live and to die, and how to attain a blesful Life after Death.

Emember that many go to Bed and never riſe again, 'till they are awakened by the fearful Sound of the laſt Trumpet; but he that ſleepeth and awaketh with Prayer, ſleepeth and awaketh with Chriſt: You know not what Hour Chriſt may come and call you out of the World; be ye therefore always ready, for Heaven is always ready to receive you. What happens to any Man may happen to every Man, every Man being furrounded with the fame Meaſures of Mortality; 'tis true indeed you may live, till you are old, but it's as true, that you may die while you are young. O Death! (faith the Son of a gracious Woman) acceptable is thy Sentence to the Needy, and to him that is vexed with all Things; the Troubles of Life hath made the bitter in Soul to long for Death, to rejice exceedingly when they have fouud the Grave. Conſider your Bodies, from whence they came, and conſider your Souls, whether they are going. Dare you enter into your Beds and ſleep fecurely any one Night,