Look often upon your Dust that you shall be reduced to, and imagine you saw your bones tumbled out of your Graves, as they are like shortly to be, and men handling your Skulls, and enquiring whose is this. Tell me of what account will the World be then, what good will it do you: put your selves often into your Graves, and look out from thence upon the World, and see what Judgement you have of it then. Must not you shortly be forgot among the Dead? your places will know you no more, and your Memory will be no more among men, and then what will it profit you to have lived in fashion and repute, and to have been Men of esteem? one serious walk over a Church-yard, as one speaks, might make a man mortified to the World. Think upon how many you Tread, but you know them not: no doubt they had their Estates, their Friends, their Trades, their businesses, and kept as much stir in the World as others do now. But alas, what are they the better for any, for all this? know you not that this must be your own case very shortly: Oh the unhappiness of deceived man! how ⟨p. 25⟩miserably is he bewitched, and befooled, that he should expend himself for that which he knows shall for ever leave him. Brethren, I beseech you lay no stress upon these perishing things, but labour to be at a Holy indifferency about them: Is it for one that is in his wits to sell his God, his conscience, his soul, for things that he is not sure to keep a week, nor a day, and which he is sure after a •ew sleepings and wakings more, to leave behind him for ever? go and talk with dying men, and see what apprehensions they have of the World? if any should come •o such as these, and tell them here is such and such preferments for you, you shall have such titles of honour and delights, if you will now disown Religion, or subscribe to iniquity; do you think such a motion would be embraced? Brethren, why should we not be wise in time! why should we not now be of the mind of which we know we shall be all shortly! woe to them that will not be wise till it be to no purpose! woe to them whose eyes nothing but Death and Judgement, will open! woe to them that though they have been warned by others, and have heard the Worlds greatest Darlings in Death to cry out of its vanity, worthlessness and deceitfulness, and have been told where and how it would leave them;
Look often upon your Dust that you shall be reduced to, and imagine you saw your bones tumbled out of your Graves, as they are like shortly to be, and men handling your Skulls, and enquiring whose is this. Tell me of what account will the World be then, what good will it do you: put your selves often into your Graves, and look out from thence upon the World, and see what Judgement you have of it then. Must not you shortly be forgot among the Dead? your places will know you no more, and your Memory will be no more among men, and then what will it profit you to have lived in fashion and repute, and to have been Men of esteem? one serious walk over a Church-yard, as one speaks, might make a man mor•ified to the World. Think upon how many you Tread, but you know them not: no doubt they had their Estates, their Friends, their Trades, their businesses, and kept as much stir in the World as others do now. But alas, what are they the better for any, for all this? know you not that this must be your own case very shortly: Oh the unhappiness of deceived man! how ⟨p. 25⟩miserably is he bewitched, and befooled, that he should expend himself for that which he knows shall for ever leave him. Brethren, I beseech you lay no stress upon these perishing things, but labour to be at a Holy indifferency about them: Is it for one that is in his wits to sell his God, his conscience, his soul, for thi•gs that he is not sure to keep a week, nor a day, and which he is sure after a •ew sleepings and wakings more, to leave behind him for ever? go and talk with dying men, and see what apprehensions they have of the World? if any should come •o such as these, and tell them here is such and such pr•ferments for you, you shall have such titles of honour and delights, if you will now disown Religion, or subscribe to iniquity; do you think such a motion would be embraced? Brethren, why should we not be wise in time! why should we not now be of the mind of which we know we shall be all shortly! woe to them that will not be wise till it be to no purpose! woe to them whose eyes nothing but Death and Judgement, will open! woe to them that though they have been warned by others, and have heard the Worlds greatest Darlings in Death to cry out of its vanity, worthlessness and deceitfulness, and have been told where and how it would leave them;
