Adsis
incoeptis
,
Christe
,
ubique
meis
.
James
iv
.
14.
For
what
is
your
life
?
It
is
even
a
vapor
that
appeareth
for
a
little
time
,
and
then
vanisheth
away
.
THE
neglect
of
the
True
Consideration
of
the
frailty
and
shortness
of
our
Lives
,
and
the
unreasonable
hopes
of
living
long
,
hath
occasioned
endless
projects
,
and
designs
far
too
long
for
the
short
time
we
have
to
live
,
and
the
many
Miseries
and
Trouples
we
must
meet
with
if
we
will
lead
a
godly
Life
.
Those
that
have
not
God
in
all
their
Thoughts
,
that
swell
with
Pride
and
Ambition
,
whose
Covetousness
and
Avarice
is
unmeasurable
,
that
speak
great
and
swelling
words
of
Vanity
,
contemning
and
despising
the
Poor
and
Needy
,
that
enlarge
their
desires
as
Hell
,
having
immortal
designs
to
lay
up
much
Goods
for
many
Years
,
when
God
is
not
in
all
their
Thoughts
;
Such
Men
are
by
S.
James
put
in
mind
of
their
latter
end
,
that
the
remembrance
thereof
may
bring
down
their
high
thoughts
and
proud
looks
,
and
may
cure
their
insatiable
Thirst
after
the
World
;
who
mind
only
earthly
things
,
whose
end
is
Damnation
:
All
their
Care
is
how
to
Buy
and
Sell
and
get
Gain
,
to
go
to
such
and
such
a
City
,
to
stay
a
Year
and
more
,
increase
their
Estates
and
Revenues
,
and
then
if
Riches
increase
their
Barns
must
be
larger
,
they
will
be
more
intemperate
and
profuse
,
spend
it
upon
their
Lusts
,
having
no
regard
to
God
,
nor
the
Necessities
of
their
poor
Neighbour
,
but
give
themselves
over
to
the
intoxicating
pleasures
of
the
World
,
which
drown
Men
in
Perdition
:
These
Cares
of
the
World
are
Thorns
which
choak
the
Seed
of
the
Word
,
destroying
in
them
all
care
of
God
and
Righteousness
,
so
that
they
spend
their
time
in
Sin
without
any
remorse
,
without
any
hearty
and
serious
Reformation
,
without
any
care
to
bring
forth
fruits
meet
for
Repentance
,
and
continue
therein
till
their
time
and
strength
be
spent
,
and
take
pleasure
in
those
that
industriously
treasure
up
Wrath
against
the
day
of
Wrath
.
There
is
no
better
remedy
to
cure
this
Soul-damning
Sin
,
The
Love
of
the
World
,
than
to
consider
that
our
Life
is
but
a
Vapor
,
that
appeareth
but
a
short
time
and
then
vanisheth
away
;
and
then
what
will
it
avail
any
to
have
gained
Earth
with
the
loss
of
Heaven
,
with
the
loss
of
his
Soul
?
The
greatest
Wisdom
in
the
World
cannot
secure
the
Temporal
Estate
.
Though
a
strong
Man
armed
keep
his
House
,
and
his
Goods
are
so
long
safe
;
yet
a
stronger
than
he
may
come
,
and
then
whose
shall
these
be
?
Then
all
are
in
the
power
of
him
that
is
strongest
,
all
these
great
things
that
Men
have
acquir'd
with
much
labour
,
and
contempt
of
God
and
Man
,
serve
only
to
declare
the
Violence
and
Injustice
of
their
late
Master
,
the
Tyranny
and
Oppression
of
their
present
Possessor
.
But
suppose
there
could
be
made
so
strong
an
Entail
that
your
Inheritance
should
continue
in
your
own
Line
,
and
your
Houses
be
called
by
your
own
Name
;
yet
Death
will
make
a
separation
,
it
will
separate
them
from
the
World
,
whom
neither
Mercies
could
melt
,
nor
God's
Judgments
terrifie
;
God
will
send
his
Messenger
for
them
,
Death
will
imbitter
all
their
enjoyments
,
and
make
them
see
their
Misery
in
setting
their
hearts
upon
such
good
things
as
destroyes
their
care
of
Heaven
,
and
takes
away
all
sence
of
the
shortness
and
frailty
of
their
Lives
.
The
Words
are
a
reproof
of
all
those
that
seek
only
an
earthly
Paradise
,
that
hope
to
Live
long
and
get
much
Wealth
,
and
consider
not
that
their
Days
are
numbred
,
that
our
Time
is
in
the
hand
of
the
Lord
.
From
which
observe
-
I.
That
it
is
the
duty
of
every
Christian
to
remember
,
That
their
Lives
are
very
short
.
-
II
.
That
this
Truth
,
if
throughly
believed
,
would
moderate
our
Affections
,
wean
us
from
the
love
of
the
World
and
worldly
things
.
I.
That
it
is
the
duty
of
every
Christian
often
to
meditate
on
the
shortness
of
their
Lives
.
1.
This
is
that
Wisdom
God
wishes
his
own
People
,
Deut.
32.
v.
29.
O
that
they
were
wise
,
that
they
would
remember
their
latter
end
.
And
sure
it
is
a
chief
point
of
Wisdom
,
which
God
wishes
for
his
chosen
People
;
he
is
not
wise
that
spends
his
Wit
and
parts
to
no
purpose
,
that
provides
not
in
Time
for
Eternity
,
but
spends
his
Life
in
Rioting
and
Drunkenness
,
and
the
cares
of
this
World
.
The
Lord
will
come
,
tho
we
do
not
prepare
for
him
,
and
then
the
Unbelievers
will
be
shut
out
of
Heaven
and
shut
up
in
Hell
;
the
good
and
faithful
Servants
of
Christ
shall
enter
into
the
Joy
of
their
Lord
.
All
the
Captivities
,
Miseries
and
bondage
that
the
Israelites
were
overwhelmed
with
,
are
reducible
to
this
head
,
Lam
.
1.9
.
They
remembred
not
their
latter
end
,
therefore
they
came
down
wonderfully
.
Worldliness
and
inconsideration
are
assigned
by
this
Prophet
,
as
the
reasons
of
the
great
afflictions
that
befel
the
Israelites
;
and
because
we
know
not
the
day
nor
the
hour
,
therefore
the
Wisdom
of
God
hath
commanded
us
to
be
ready
.
2.
In
Holy
Scripture
we
are
frequently
instructed
,
that
we
are
Strangers
and
Pilgrims
,
as
all
our
Fathers
were
:
Heaven
is
our
Country
,
the
World
but
the
place
of
our
Pilgrimage
,
our
Life
only
a
time
of
sojourning
,
Heb
.
13.14
.
We
have
here
no
continuing
City
,
therefore
we
ought
to
seek
one
to
come
,
in
the
Heavens
,
which
is
permanent
,
whose
builder
and
maker
is
the
Lord
.
In
this
World
all
things
are
frail
and
mutable
,
all
sublunary
things
are
subject
to
change
.
He
that
is
to
day
on
the
Throne
,
may
be
to
morrow
on
the
Dunghil
;
to
day
a
Husband
,
a
Father
of
many
Children
,
many
friends
and
admirers
,
(
as
Job
,
while
his
Cup
stood
even
)
to
Morrow
bereaved
of
all
such
Comforts
:
like
Rachel
weeping
for
her
Children
and
would
not
be
comforted
.
Our
Life
is
called
a
Tabernacle
;
an
earthly
Tabernacle
must
be
dissolved
:
And
if
in
Truth
we
believe
it
,
we
will
lay
a
good
foundation
for
the
time
to
come
,
leave
the
World
and
go
to
the
Father
;
if
we
leave
it
not
in
our
Affection
and
Practice
,
in
the
Follies
and
Impieties
of
it
,
if
we
study
not
a
direct
opposition
to
the
World
,
the
World
will
at
last
leave
us
with
a
hard
Heart
and
polluted
Conscience
;
such
Furniture
is
neither
to
be
envied
nor
coveted
.
3.
This
was
the
practice
of
the
Saints
,
Moses
prayed
for
it
,
So
teach
us
to
number
our
days
that
we
may
apply
our
hearts
unto
wisdom
,
Psal
.
90.12
.
In
the
Death
of
others
good
Christians
see
their
own
,
and
do
wonder
,
and
with
grief
complain
of
the
stupidity
and
prophanity
of
many
,
who
do
not
consider
their
Mortality
:
it
's
necessary
that
good
Christians
bewail
their
own
and
other
mens
miseries
:
The
less
care
that
many
take
of
their
Salvation
the
more
will
good
Men
pity
their
case
,
and
with
Tears
pray
for
those
who
will
not
pray
for
themselves
to
any
good
purpose
;
with
the
Royal
Prophet
,
Fast
and
put
on
Sack
cloath
,
Fast
and
Pray
for
them
,
endeavouring
to
imitate
in
some
measure
that
great
example
of
Compassion
in
Christ
Jesus
our
Lord
,
who
wept
over
Jerusalem
,
bedewed
them
with
his
Tears
and
blood
,
before
they
were
drowned
in
their
own
.
This
is
a
sort
of
Wisdom
that
inlightens
the
understanding
and
purifies
the
Heart
,
makes
us
see
the
World
passing
away
,
that
we
may
experimentally
say
,
Vanity
of
vanities
,
all
in
the
world
is
vanity
and
vexation
of
spirit
:
So
that
the
Soul
will
not
much
be
affected
with
the
deceiving
and
destroying
pleasures
of
Sin
.
This
is
that
study
,
which
in
the
opinion
of
a
great
Emperor
,
is
able
to
purifie
and
adorn
the
Mind
:
The
art
of
Holy
Living
and
Holy
Dying
,
to
meditate
much
upon
God
and
our selves
,
will
make
us
happy
and
wise
,
This
is
that
wisdom
that
is
from
above
,
and
is
full
of
good
fruits
,
Jam
.
3.17
.
Psal
.
39.5
.
Lord
let
me
know
my
end
—
Doubtless
he
lives
well
that
all
the
days
of
his
appointed
time
waits
for
his
change
,
Eccl.
7.2
.
It
is
better
to
go
to
the
house
of
mourning
than
the
house
of
feasting
;
for
this
is
the
end
of
all
men
,
and
the
living
will
lay
it
to
heart
.
No
Meditation
will
better
qualifie
us
,
usefully
and
Religiously
to
converse
with
Men
on
Earth
,
and
in
Heaven
with
God
and
Angels
.
This
was
S.
Paul's
practice
to
Die
dayly
such
shall
never
die
eternally
:
This
is
the
use
we
are
to
make
of
it
,
1
Cor
.
7.29
,
30
,
31.
The
time
is
short
,
it
remains
then
,
that
we
use
this
world
as
not
abusing
it
:
then
follows
a
very
strong
reason
,
for
the
world
passeth
away
and
the
fashion
thereof
.
Our
Lives
are
but
a
span
long
,
our
Soul
is
continually
in
our
hands
,
no
sooner
do
we
enter
into
Life
,
but
we
are
upon
the
brink
of
Death
;
many
are
buried
ere
they
are
born
,
and
their
Lamp's
wasted
as
soon
as
lighted
.
The
days
of
our
Age
,
says
the
Psalmist
,
are
70
or
80.
years
,
but
if
we
deduct
the
days
of
Vanity
and
Sin
,
we
shall
find
the
time
much
shorter
than
we
are
aware
of
;
our
first
Age
,
our
Infancy
and
Childhood
is
almost
spent
without
the
use
of
Reason
,
in
childish
Vanities
;
our
youth
and
strength
is
most
spent
in
Sin
and
Jollity
,
our
Old
Age
in
the
thorny
Cares
of
the
World
:
all
which
being
deducted
,
there
will
remain
only
a
short
space
,
of
many
years
,
(
as
one
hath
well
observed
)
Most
Men
never
mind
their
End
till
it
seize
on
them
either
in
Old
Age
or
Mortal
Diseases
:
Our
condition
then
would
require
Joy
and
Rest
;
which
we
cannot
expect
,
unless
the
meditation
of
the
shortness
of
our
Lives
,
prove
the
mortification
of
our
Sins
:
if
we
spend
our
time
in
doing
nothing
,
or
in
doing
evil
;
such
must
needs
be
in
great
perplexity
at
the
hour
of
death
,
when
the
Time
is
spent
,
and
the
work
of
Salvation
neglected
,
when
their
Life
hath
been
misspent
in
the
Cares
of
the
World
;
then
,
tho'
they
may
cry
with
much
bitterness
and
many
Tears
,
tho'
they
,
with
much
earnestness
,
may
desire
to
see
one
of
the
days
of
the
Son
of
Man
,
they
shall
not
see
it
.
II
.
This
Truth
if
throughly
believed
,
would
moderate
our
Affections
,
wean
us
from
the
love
of
the
World
,
and
worldly
things
.
This
is
the
design
of
the
Holy
Ghost
in
this
Scripture
,
For
what
is
your
life
?
&c.
That
seeing
it
is
a
vapor
that
appeareth
for
a
little
time
,
and
then
vanisheth
away
,
then
certainly
Men
should
make
use
of
their
Time
,
spend
it
in
God's
Service
,
who
only
can
give
them
immortality
,
an
eternal
and
exceeding
weight
of
glory
.
A
worldly
Mind
is
God's
great
enemy
,
the
end
of
those
that
mind
earthly
things
is
damnation
,
Phil
.
the
sight
of
the
grave
is
an
effectual
motive
to
cure
covetous
desires
;
he
is
desperately
in
love
with
the
World
,
and
the
things
thereof
,
that
having
but
one
day
to
live
,
would
yet
spend
it
in
grasping
after
the
pelf
of
the
world
,
or
gaping
after
some
ambitious
design
,
or
airy
applause
:
whatever
be
our
enjoyments
and
temporal
Felicities
,
yet
we
should
remember
the
days
of
darkness
,
Eccl.
11.8
.
Which
if
we
do
to
any
good
purpose
,
the
gaieties
of
the
world
will
not
much
affect
us
,
seeing
their
full
confluence
and
enjoyment
are
but
vexation
of
Spirit
,
and
leave
a
sting
,
a
fearful
remorse
and
agony
in
the
Conscience
.
If
one
pass
his
Time
in
the
height
of
the
Pleasures
of
the
world
,
in
the
ways
of
Sin
;
walking
in
the
ways
of
his
own
Heart
,
and
in
the
sight
of
his
own
Eyes
—
Know
thou
,
that
for
all
these
things
God
will
bring
thee
to
judgment
,
Eccl.
11.9
.
And
after
all
their
time
is
spent
in
wealth
,
after
the
imaginations
of
their
own
Hearts
,
how
will
they
answer
that
a
wakening
question
of
S.
Paul's
,
Rom.
6.
ult
.
What
fruit
have
ye
in
those
things
whereof
you
are
now
ashamed
?
It
's
the
love
of
the
world
that
makes
Men
so
cruel
and
hard
hearted
,
deceiving
and
being
deceived
,
this
makes
them
forget
that
God
that
made
them
,
with
Demas
,
forsake
the
glorious
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
imbrace
the
present
World
.
It
's
the
love
of
the
World
that
makes
them
deny
God
in
their
Works
,
whom
they
seem
to
adore
by
their
Christian
Profession
,
this
stifles
all
their
good
intentions
,
destroys
all
care
of
their
Immortal
Souls
,
all
hopes
of
Heaven
and
Happiness
.
Love
not
the
world
,
nor
the
things
of
the
world
;
if
any
man
love
the
world
,
the
love
of
God
is
not
in
him
,
1
Joh
.
2.15
.
Such
as
love
the
World
are
Christ's
greatest
enemies
,
who
have
their
portion
in
this
life
,
Ps.
17.14
.
who
have
no
taste
of
any
thing
but
what
is
sensual
and
worldly
,
have
no
relish
for
things
Holy
and
Divine
;
and
whoever
are
friends
of
the
World
have
no
love
to
Piety
and
Religion
,
but
against
all
the
checks
of
Conscience
,
against
all
the
frequent
and
gentle
strivings
of
the
Spirit
of
God
,
have
chosen
forbidden
interests
and
pleasures
,
and
follow
them
down
to
Hell
.
If
we
have
any
true
Piety
we
must
keep
our selves
unspotted
of
the
world
.
Ja.
1.17
.
Christ
Jesus
acquaints
his
Disciples
,
that
he
hath
chosen
them
out
of
the
world
,
Joh
.
15.19
.
It
's
reckoned
as
a
grievous
sin
to
speak
good
of
the
covetous
whom
God
abhorreth
,
Ps.
10.3
.
To
moderate
our
affections
after
the
World
and
sensual
Pleasures
,
the
Thoughts
of
Death
have
been
thought
very
effectual
.
That
custom
of
presenting
a
stone
to
the
Emperor
at
his
Inauguration
,
that
they
might
know
after
what
form
he
would
have
his
Tomb
;
King
Philip's
boy
calling
every
Morning
to
him
,
remember
thou
art
a
Man
,
were
effectual
remembrances
of
their
Mortality
.
The
Jews
had
their
Sepulchres
in
their
Gardens
,
as
we
read
Joseph
of
Arimathea
had
:
A
Death's
head
will
a
little
allay
the
the
immoderate
pursuit
of
worldly
Pleasures
.
The
Holy
Ghost
makes
the
same
use
of
our
latter
end
;
That
the
remembrance
thereof
may
imbitter
worldly
enjoyments
,
that
would
otherwise
pierce
the
Soul
and
endanger
,
if
not
quite
destroy
the
hopes
of
Salvation
.
Men
are
mistaken
if
they
think
they
can
be
both
worldlings
and
good
Christians
;
a
great
and
wealthy
Churl
cannot
be
accounted
liberal
by
the
Spirit
of
God
,
Esa
.
32.5
.
The
Love
of
God
and
the
Love
of
the
World
are
inconsistent
,
they
cannot
suffer
one
the
other
.
Dives
that
great
worldling
,
that
desired
no
Heaven
but
the
height
of
Wealth
,
worldly
and
sensual
Pleasure
:
how
did
he
Pride
himself
in
his
possessions
,
deny
the
cryes
of
the
Poor
and
needy
,
had
no
pity
nor
compassion
upon
one
that
lay
at
his
door
opprest
with
Poverty
and
extreme
want
,
and
loaden
with
painful
and
acute
diseases
,
to
whom
he
would
not
give
any
of
his
superfluities
,
but
wallowed
in
all
excesses
,
to
glut
and
satiate
a
proud
and
cursed
Carkass
?
How
doth
the
Holy
Ghost
alarm
this
hard-hearted
worldling
,
as
Belshazzar
was
with
the
appearance
of
a
hand-writing
,
his
condemnation
on
the
wall
,
Thou
fool
,
this
night
shall
thy
Soul
be
taken
from
thee
,
and
then
whose
shall
these
things
be
?
Luke
12.20
.
Job's
consideration
,
c
.
1.
v.
21.
That
we
brought
nothing
into
the
world
,
and
can
carry
nothing
out
,
will
,
if
duly
consider'd
,
make
us
have
a
true
estimate
of
worldly
things
,
that
we
will
not
desire
to
enjoy
them
upon
miserable
terms
,
nor
ever
make
any
other
use
of
the
consideration
of
the
shortness
of
them
.
But
those
that
are
deplorably
and
desperately
wicked
;
who
believe
neither
Heaven
nor
Hell
,
God
nor
Devil
;
such
as
the
Scripture
degrades
,
terming
them
the
beasts
of
the
People
,
who
are
viler
than
the
Earth
:
It
's
no
marvel
that
such
as
live
like
beasts
should
die
so
too
;
those
great
and
mighty
worldlings
make
a
quite
different
use
of
this
Doctrine
of
The
shortness
of
our
lives
.
Therefore
they
commit
sin
with
greediness
,
do
violence
to
hell
,
and
take
possession
of
those
places
of
Torment
before
their
time
:
Their
houses
are
safe
from
fear
,
neither
is
the
rod
of
God
upon
them
.
They
spend
their
days
in
wealth
,
and
suddenly
go
down
to
the
grave
,
Job
21.9
,
13.
What
gifts
of
Nature
and
Fortune
have
they
not
abused
?
what
Truths
of
Christianity
have
not
such
wrested
to
their
own
damnation
,
Let
us
eat
and
drink
for
to
morrow
we
die
,
1
Cor
.
15.
is
a
damnable
inference
from
that
necessary
Truth
.
He
contemned
the
World
who
meditated
much
upon
that
voice
which
sounded
in
his
ears
,
arise
ye
dead
and
come
to
judgment
.
This
is
that
use
the
Spirit
of
God
presses
upon
all
our
Consciences
,
Eccl.
9.10
.
Whatever
thy
hand
findeth
to
do
,
do
it
with
all
thy
might
,
for
there
is
no
work
nor
device
,
nor
knowledge
,
nor
wisdom
in
the
grave
whither
thou
goest
.
Great
reason
have
all
Christians
to
exhort
one
another
to
a
right
consideration
of
their
latter
end
,
so
much
the
more
,
because
you
see
the
day
approaching
,
Heb
.
10.25
.
That
our
lives
are
short
is
a
thing
universally
known
and
believ'd
,
most
will
say
,
as
Jacob
to
Pharaoh
,
few
and
evil
have
the
days
of
my
pilgrimage
been
.
But
they
only
know
it
in
a
Scripture-sence
,
that
know
it
for
the
time
to
come
,
and
therefore
live
every
hour
as
for
eternity
.
It
's
no
hard
matter
to
know
,
That
a
Body
of
contrary
qualities
cannot
last
long
,
we
know
that
Heaven
hath
decreed
this
.
Heb
.
9.27
.
That
it
s
appointed
for
all
men
once
to
die
.
For
if
in
this
life
only
we
had
hope
,
we
were
of
all
men
most
miserable
;
neither
is
it
any
hard
matter
to
have
a
speculative
knowledge
of
God's
Word
and
Works
,
we
may
know
that
Rewards
and
Punishments
are
not
in
this
Life
proportion'd
to
the
Crimes
;
a
righteous
Man
may
perish
in
his
righteousess
,
and
a
wicked
Man
prolong
his
days
in
sin
,
Eccl.
7.15
.
It
is
not
a
speculative
knowledge
that
will
have
any
great
effect
upon
us
,
but
such
as
Sanctifies
and
makes
us
better
Men
:
it
's
a
heart
work
,
its
comfort
is
better
felt
than
express'd
by
words
.
1
Sam
.
2.12
.
Eli's
Sons
are
said
,
not
to
know
God
.
Doubtless
they
understood
the
Law
in
a
literal
sence
,
but
they
had
no
saving
knowledge
of
it
;
nor
do
any
improve
their
talent
well
,
consider
their
Time
aright
,
the
shortness
and
frailty
of
their
Lives
,
That
do
not
daily
die
unto
Sin
and
live
unto
Righteousness
;
That
make
not
the
Meditation
of
Death
,
the
Mortification
of
their
Sins
:
in
this
sence
is
that
of
Job
to
be
understood
,
3.23
.
I
know
that
thou
wilt
bring
me
to
death
,
and
to
the
house
appointed
for
all
living
.
To
know
it
for
our selves
in
particular
,
that
we
may
break
of
our
Sins
by
Repentance
,
redeem
the
Time
we
have
lost
,
and
pray
for
Grace
to
wait
for
the
Lord's
coming
:
if
our
Mortality
have
not
this
effect
,
it
shews
our
unfitness
,
as
well
as
unwillingness
to
Die
.
This
is
indeed
a
common
subject
,
and
such
an
one
as
experience
hath
made
plain
to
Mankind
,
yet
it
's
of
great
use
,
and
very
necessary
,
as
S.
Peter
tells
us
,
He
thought
meet
to
stir
up
their
pure
minds
by
way
of
remembrance
,
because
the
time
of
his
departure
was
at
hand
.
Tho'
they
knew
them
already
,
yet
being
again
pressed
upon
them
,
they
might
prove
effectual
motives
to
Piety
and
Godliness
,
2
Pet
.
1.12
,
16.
God
commands
his
Servants
to
preach
this
known
Truth
,
Esay
40.6
.
The
voice
said
cry
,
All
flesh
is
grass
.
The
mighty
Kings
and
Princes
Dye
as
one
of
the
mean
people
;
Rich
and
Poor
lye
down
together
in
the
Dust
,
Old
and
Young
meet
together
in
the
Grave
,
and
there
is
no
discharge
in
this
War
.
I
proceed
now
to
the
Uses
which
may
be
drawn
from
the
Truths
delivered
,
and
First
of
Exhortation
.
First
,
Seeing
our
Life
is
a
Vapor
,
very
short
and
frail
,
then
spend
this
short
time
well
,
in
such
works
of
Piety
and
Charity
,
as
need
no
change
at
Death
,
as
leave
no
ungrateful
remembrance
,
no
tormenting
remorse
of
Conscience
behind
them
:
Spend
your
time
in
God's
House
,
in
God's
Service
,
it
will
bring
a
Man
to
Peace
at
the
last
,
whatever
may
employ
you
,
yet
nothing
can
satisfie
a
Christian
Soul
,
but
a
due
reflection
upon
a
well
spent
Life
,
which
was
Hezekia's
great
comfort
,
2
Kin
.
20.3
.
and
will
be
ours
in
our
walk
through
the
shadow
of
Death
.
Remember
now
,
O
Lord
,
how
I
have
walked
before
thee
,
in
truth
,
and
with
a
perfect
heart
,
and
done
that
which
is
good
in
thy
sight
.
With
an
upright
heart
,
omit
no
opportunity
to
serve
God
in
his
House
,
nor
in
your
own
:
One
day
in
his
Courts
is
better
spent
than
a
thousand
in
the
Tents
of
Wickedness
,
O
how
amiable
are
his
dwelling
places
!
S.
Paul
,
begging
a
choice
blessing
for
the
Romans
,
pray'd
,
That
God
would
fill
them
with
all
joy
in
believing
.
Spiritual
Comforts
are
only
satisfying
and
perpetual
.
Let
me
in
the
name
of
Christ
exhort
you
all
to
make
good
use
of
your
Time
,
make
your
Calling
and
Election
sure
,
mind
and
promote
in
your selves
and
others
,
the
things
that
accompany
Salvation
.
If
you
sleep
a
way
your
Life
in
Sin
,
you
will
be
awakened
with
the
flames
of
Hell
;
which
Sin
,
and
the
Wrath
of
God
have
made
so
hot
already
.
Death
may
come
in
an
hour
when
thou
art
not
aware
of
it
,
and
then
thou
mayst
have
no
more
Time
than
to
tell
thy
Companions
in
Sin
,
that
thou
art
going
to
Hell
;
as
one
hath
truly
exprest
the
danger
of
want
of
this
consideration
,
Mr.
G.
That
fearful
Judgment
that
befel
Corah
,
Dathan
and
Abiram
,
Num
.
16.32
.
when
Wives
,
Parents
and
Children
,
Masters
and
Servants
,
were
swallowed
up
alive
,
hath
been
to
our
astonishment
repeated
in
our
days
:
't
is
not
many
years
since
we
heard
the
astonishing
news
of
Towns
and
Families
,
that
in
a
moment
went
down
to
the
Pit
,
and
tho'
we
were
not
Spectators
of
those
grievous
Plagues
when
God
did
shake
the
Earth
so
terribly
;
yet
these
terrible
Judgments
were
loudly
sounded
in
our
ears
by
seasonable
admonitions
from
beyond
Seas
,
and
early
alarms
by
the
Men
of
God
at
home
,
that
would
have
us
healed
;
yet
alass
,
their
Death
did
not
make
us
amend
our
Lives
,
but
we
persisted
in
our
Impieties
in
despite
of
all
God's
Terrible
Judgments
.
So
that
what
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
told
us
of
others
,
Rev.
9.20
.
is
verified
of
our selves
:
And
the
rest
of
the
men
which
were
not
killed
by
the
plagues
,
yet
repented
not
of
the
works
of
their
hands
.
Let
nothing
in
the
World
deprive
you
of
the
heavenly
Intercourse
betwixt
God
and
your
Souls
,
nor
rob
you
of
the
Sacred
Opportunities
of
your
offering
up
a
Morning
and
Evening
Sacrifice
;
allow
no
entertainment
to
any
business
how
important
soever
that
would
hinder
your
Private
and
Publick
Devotion
,
in
the
Closet
and
Congregation
;
by
such
heavenly
and
constant
Exercises
we
are
kept
under
the
sence
of
God's
Presence
,
and
remembrance
of
our
Duty
;
That
God
at
no
time
may
want
a
Sacrifice
,
nor
we
a
Blessing
.
Then
will
God
be
gracious
unto
his
People
,
and
endow
them
with
Virtue
from
on
High
;
Then
will
the
Holy
Spirit
rest
upon
us
,
and
shed
abroad
in
our
hearts
,
such
assurances
of
his
Love
,
as
no
delight
on
earth
can
equal
:
The
Joy
whereof
will
be
so
heavenly
and
satisfying
,
that
Death
it self
shall
not
take
it
from
us
,
but
as
it
is
by
the
Holy
Spirit
begun
on
Earth
,
so
shall
it
be
continued
,
and
increased
in
Heaven
;
where
our
Life
shall
have
no
end
,
nor
our
Joy
admit
of
any
diminution
nor
alteration
.
The
Second
Use
is
of
Information
,
To
shew
us
the
danger
,
as
well
as
the
baseness
of
Earthly
Mindedness
;
of
the
Men
of
this
World
,
whose
portion
is
in
this
Life
:
Whose
end
is
damnation
,
whose
God
is
their
belly
,
whose
glory
is
their
shame
,
Phil
.
3.19
.
Those
that
are
grown
great
by
Oppression
,
who
have
eaten
up
the
Poor
as
Bread
,
who
have
oppressed
the
Widow
and
Fatherless
,
such
as
had
no
power
to
withstand
their
unjust
pretentions
and
exactions
,
but
boasted
themselves
they
were
able
to
do
mischief
.
Psal
.
50.1
,
2.
To
whom
the
Tears
of
the
Oppressed
relished
better
than
the
choicest
Wine
;
and
to
destroy
Men
,
to
make
them
rot
in
Gaol
,
to
make
them
feel
the
power
of
their
cruel
Wrath
,
(
as
the
modish
Phrase
is
)
is
a
continual
Feast
.
What
will
such
do
when
they
come
to
die
?
What
will
they
answer
when
God
arises
to
Judgment
?
What
will
your
Wealth
profit
you
?
No
Man
can
by
his
abundance
deliver
his
own
Soul
,
neither
from
Death
in
this
World
,
nor
Damnation
in
the
next
.
Let
the
consideration
of
your
approaching
End
cure
your
insatiable
Thirst
after
Earthly
Things
,
and
make
you
despise
all
unjust
gain
;
as
indeed
it
would
,
if
it
were
truly
believ'd
.
How
insipid
and
mean
would
all
the
Kingdoms
of
the
World
appear
to
him
that
dies
daily
,
that
believes
this
Truth
for
the
time
to
come
.
This
would
allay
Malice
and
Hatred
,
That
very
image
and
representation
of
Hell
,
that
turns
Men
into
Devils
,
that
banished
Angels
out
of
Heaven
and
keeps
them
in
the
blackness
of
darkness
till
the
great
Day
,
when
their
punishment
shall
be
increased
according
to
the
Power
and
Wrath
of
God
.
What
ever
proud
and
cruel
thoughts
Men
have
,
whatever
hard
and
unmerciful
designs
;
yet
when
their
Breath
is
gone
,
all
their
Thoughts
perish
;
their
Love
,
their
Hatred
and
Envy
perish
and
come
to
an
end
with
them
,
Eccl.
9.6
.
And
that
Man
whom
they
have
continually
haunted
,
that
he
was
hunted
like
a
Partridge
in
the
Wilderness
;
who
found
more
Peace
and
Safety
among
brute
and
savage
Beasts
,
than
among
cruel
and
worldly
Men
:
So
that
the
poor
Man
who
hopes
for
Mercy
from
them
,
who
has
in
him
the
Image
of
God
,
is
taken
in
their
snares
;
He
is
undone
by
them
,
and
in
the
bitterness
of
his
Soul
,
Cryes
,
O
that
I
had
the
wings
of
a
Dove
,
that
I
might
flee
away
and
be
at
rest
,
Psal
.
56.6
.
What
rest
from
such
words
Harpies
?
None
but
in
the
Grave
;
There
the
weary
are
at
rest
.
But
if
nothing
will
abate
this
cruel
Temper
,
nor
alter
their
delights
;
yet
let
them
remember
,
that
with
what
measure
they
mete
to
others
,
they
shall
meet
with
the
same
from
the
Great
Judge
of
all
the
Earth
:
And
he
that
hath
shewed
no
Mercy
,
shall
have
Judgment
without
Mercy
.
Whatever
Projects
may
entertain
us
,
whatever
pleasant
Fancy
may
flatter
us
;
That
we
will
get
Gain
,
that
we
will
raise
our
Families
,
perpetuate
our
Name
;
yet
we
must
leave
all
these
to
the
Man
that
shall
come
after
us
:
And
who
knoweth
whether
he
shall
be
a
Wise
Man
or
a
Fool
?
Yet
shall
he
have
rule
over
all
thy
labour
,
wherein
thou
hast
shewed
thy self
wise
under
the
Sun
,
Eccl.
2.18
,
19.
God
hath
set
bounds
to
our
Lives
,
we
cannot
alter
the
Decrees
of
Heaven
,
nor
live
one
Minute
longer
than
our
appointed
time
.
Ought
not
God's
Word
to
set
bounds
to
our
immortal
desires
after
the
World
,
a
short
care
will
serve
a
short
life
,
Luke
12.15
.
Take
heed
and
beware
of
covetousness
:
for
a
man's
life
consisteth
not
in
the
abundance
of
the
things
he
possesseth
.
Be
assured
of
this
Truth
,
they
are
the
words
of
Jesus
Christ
,
v.
20
,
21.
Thou
fool
,
this
night
shall
thy
soul
be
required
of
thee
,
and
then
whose
shall
these
things
be
which
thou
hast
provided
?
So
that
by
this
character
,
you
see
,
none
are
so
great
fools
as
Worldlings
,
Nigards
and
Churls
;
So
is
he
that
layeth
up
treasure
for
himself
,
and
is
not
rich
towards
God
.
In
the
esteem
of
the
World
,
He
is
Wise
that
is
all
for
himself
,
Every
man
for
himself
,
is
the
term
of
the
World
;
but
God's
Ways
are
not
as
our
Ways
,
He
accounts
such
a
Life
mispent
,
such
an
one
lost
,
that
is
a
lover
of
himself
,
2
Tim
.
3.2
.
Let
that
of
the
Prophet
Hosea
10.
v.
1.
be
remembred
,
Israel
is
an
empty
vine
,
he
bringeth
forth
fruit
unto
himself
:
Such
bring
forth
unto
death
,
Rom.
6.5
.
Who
bring
not
forth
fruit
unto
God
,
Rom.
7.4
.
I
shall
now
particularly
apply
my
Discourse
to
this
present
Occasion
,
and
say
something
of
this
Gentlewoman
,
whose
Funeral
we
now
Celebrate
,
who
deserved
so
much
as
this
Congregation
very
well
knows
.
She
lived
not
long
,
but
she
lived
well
,
and
did
much
good
in
a
short
time
,
Laying
up
in
store
for
her self
,
a
good
foundation
against
the
time
to
come
,
that
she
might
lay
hold
on
eternal
life
,
1
Tim
.
6.19
.
She
was
of
a
weak
and
tender
Constitution
,
her
sickness
had
a
very
good
effect
on
her
:
she
was
one
who
little
admired
the
Pleasures
and
Vanities
of
the
World
;
she
looked
upon
them
as
very
trifling
and
insipid
,
and
did
not
relish
them
,
as
many
of
a
meaner
quality
usually
do
.
1.
Her
own
sickness
made
her
affected
with
the
condition
of
her
poor
Neighbours
,
towards
whom
she
was
very
Charitable
;
very
ready
and
diligent
to
apply
sutable
Remedies
,
effectual
Relief
:
God
blessed
her
Endeavours
,
and
recovered
several
poor
People
,
her
Neighbours
,
to
their
former
Health
;
who
without
such
a
compassionate
and
merciful
Assistant
,
might
have
languished
long
in
their
Diseases
:
some
having
no
Ability
,
and
others
no
Understanding
to
seek
for
the
recovery
of
their
Health
.
And
in
any
obstinate
Distemper
,
where
her
own
Judgment
needed
Information
,
she
would
frequently
undertake
the
fatigue
of
several
Miles
,
to
take
Advice
for
those
that
were
in
great
Misery
and
Sickness
;
who
otherwise
in
all
probability
had
been
seen
no
more
in
the
Land
of
the
Living
,
as
several
here
present
must
gratefully
acknowledge
:
This
she
thought
she
was
bound
in
Conscience
to
do
,
in
imitation
of
our
Merciful
God
,
who
helps
those
that
are
in
Misery
,
in
obedience
to
his
Commands
,
in
a
humble
acknowledgment
of
God's
Blessings
in
many
recoveries
of
her
Health
,
which
she
had
from
God's
great
Goodness
;
whoever
was
the
instrument
,
he
was
the
Author
:
and
seeing
she
had
her
Health
from
the
Lord
,
she
could
not
better
preserve
it
,
nor
be
thankful
to
God
at
a
higher
rate
,
than
to
make
others
know
what
God
had
done
to
her
Soul
;
That
they
might
joyn
in
Praises
to
him
for
all
his
benefits
,
Who
forgiveth
all
our
iniquities
,
who
healeth
all
our
diseases
,
Psal
.
103.1
,
2
,
3.
She
had
a
right
to
that
Blessing
.
Psal
.
41.1
.
She
wisely
consider'd
the
Poor
,
look'd
upon
them
as
her
own
Bowels
.
God
in
his
Law
calls
them
ours
,
Deut.
15.11
.
on
purpose
,
doubtless
,
that
we
should
know
that
God
hath
chosen
the
poor
in
this
world
,
rich
in
faith
,
and
heirs
of
the
kingdom
of
heaven
,
Jam
.
2.5
.
It
's
a
happy
Life
that
's
spent
in
doing
good
;
such
have
the
best
Approbation
,
the
truest
Peace
,
and
greatest
Reward
,
Who
break
of
their
sins
by
a
timely
repentance
,
and
their
iniquities
by
shewing
mercy
to
the
poor
,
Dan
.
4.27
.
Such
have
the
Prayers
of
all
the
Servants
of
God
,
the
Praises
of
all
his
Saints
;
God
sees
your
Words
,
and
will
approve
your
Wisdom
;
who
know
that
there
is
no
worth
in
any
Temporal
Enjoyments
:
But
for
a
man
to
rejoyce
and
do
good
in
his
life
,
Eccl.
3.12
.
Without
all
controversie
,
with
such
Sacrifices
God
is
well
pleased
.
2.
She
was
very
Humble
and
Lowly
,
an
ornament
which
in
the
sight
of
God
is
of
great
Price
:
Her
demeanor
was
inoffensive
,
void
of
Pride
and
Vanity
:
She
had
learned
,
that
God
had
made
of
one
Blood
all
Nations
under
Heaven
,
she
remembred
the
meanest
had
God's
Image
stampt
upon
them
,
and
that
in
several
particulars
they
are
to
be
preferred
before
those
of
a
higher
station
:
She
knew
it
a
duty
to
condescend
to
Men
of
low
degree
,
and
in
honour
to
prefer
others
before
our selves
;
she
was
not
given
to
foolish
talking
nor
unseemly
jesting
,
but
grave
and
discreet
,
a
lover
,
a
follower
of
godly
and
holy
Matrons
.
3.
She
was
very
prudent
and
discreet
in
her
houshold
affairs
,
that
Character
of
a
Virtuous
Woman
was
very
applicable
to
her
,
Pro
.
31.11
.
The
heart
of
her
husband
did
safely
trust
in
her
;
she
did
him
good
and
not
evil
,
all
the
days
of
her
life
.
v.
26
She
opened
her
mouth
with
wisdom
,
and
in
her
tongue
was
the
law
of
kindness
.
Her
Children
rise
up
and
call
her
blessed
,
her
Husband
also
,
and
he
blesseth
her
.
She
was
a
kind
Relation
,
a
True
Friend
,
constant
to
the
Death
.
She
was
an
excellent
Wife
,
she
passionately
loved
her
Husband
,
her
Affection
was
never
lessened
towards
him
,
till
Death
made
the
separation
.
As
her
Life
was
full
of
good
Fruits
,
so
she
was
very
Patient
and
Submissive
at
the
time
of
her
Death
;
which
was
very
sudden
,
and
unexpected
by
her
Friends
till
a
few
hours
before
she
rendred
her
Spirit
to
God
who
gave
it
.
Even
in
her
greatest
Agony
,
no
impatient
word
nor
angry
expression
escaped
her
,
she
opened
not
her
mouth
but
in
Praises
to
God
for
every
little
interval
of
Ease
;
or
in
Prayers
to
God
to
be
Merciful
unto
her
;
and
in
earnest
requests
that
we
would
make
Supplications
for
her
happy
departure
out
of
this
Valley
of
Misery
to
Eternal
Glory
.
She
dyed
as
Rachel
,
Gen.
35.16
.
She
travailed
and
had
hard
labour
,
she
bore
a
Son
and
died
.
Upon
which
sad
occasion
,
One
,
in
a
Funeral
Posture
laments
it
thus
●is●
.
B
;
Who
can
express
the
Woe
of
this
Day
,
and
the
bitterness
of
this
Loss
to
the
Man
of
God
;
Rachel
his
dear
Wife
dies
in
Childbed
,
an
increase
of
Grief
:
Worldly
Comforts
are
subject
to
change
;
wish
for
Eternity
here
,
all
is
but
Vanity
.
Our
deceased
Sister
was
fruitful
as
Rachel
,
she
hath
left
Seven
Sons
:
Her
Husband
cannot
give
a
better
demonstration
of
the
Truth
of
his
Love
to
her
,
than
by
a
Christian
Education
of
his
Children
,
according
to
her
designs
if
she
had
lived
:
That
they
may
be
trained
up
in
the
Fear
of
the
Lord
,
and
be
Instruments
of
much
good
in
their
Generation
.
And
doubtless
Children
are
then
a
Singular
Blessing
,
when
(
as
we
have
them
of
God's
bounty
,
so
)
by
our
Prayers
and
Endeavours
we
dedicate
them
to
his
Honour
and
Glory
.
In
a
word
,
She
was
a
Loving
and
Endearing
Wife
,
a
careful
and
tender-hearted
Mother
,
a
kind
Relation
,
a
Faithful
Friend
,
and
a
very
Charitable
and
compassionate
Neighbour
.
Conclude
we
then
in
the
Words
of
an
Eminent
Servant
of
God
:
The
Lord
of
his
great
mercy
,
Bish
.
S.
by
his
Holy
Spirit
,
humble
our
hearts
with
the
remembrance
of
our
frailty
,
pardon
our
Sins
the
only
cause
of
it
;
cloath
us
with
Christ's
Righteousness
,
the
only
ease
of
it
;
and
hasten
his
Son's
coming
,
the
only
end
of
it
:
To
which
Three
Sacred
Persons
of
the
Blessed
God-head
,
be
all
Honour
and
Glory
,
Praise
and
Thanksgiving
for
ever
,
Amen
,
FINIS
.