The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

I will only add how ineffectual Philosophy is to support us in a dying hour. The fear of Death is a Passion ⟨p. 356⟩so strong that by it Men are kept in bondage all their days. 'Tis an Enemy that threatens none whom it doth not strike, and there is none but it threatens. Certainly that Spectre which ^†Caesar had not courage to look in the face is very affrighting. Alexander himself that so often despised it in the Field; when passion that transported him, cast a Veil over his Eyes, yet when he was struck with a mortal Disease in Babylon, and had Death in his view, ^*his Palace was filled with Priests and Diviners, and no superstition was so sottish, but he used to preserve himself. And although the Philosophers seemed to contemn Death, yet the great preparations they made to encounter it,³ argue a secret fear in their Breasts. Many Discourses, Reasonings, and Arguments are employed to sweeten that cruel necessity of it, but they are all ineffectual.

I will only add how ineffectual Philosophy is to support us in a dying hour. The fear of Death is a Passion ⟨p. 356⟩so strong that by it Men are kept in bondage all their days. 'Tis an Enemy that threatens none whom it doth not strike, and there is none but it threatens. Certainly that Spectre which ^†Caesar had not courage to look in the face is very affrighting. Alexander himself that so often despised it in the Field; when passion that transported him, cast a Vail over his Eyes, yet when he was struck with a mortal Disease in Babylon, and had Death in his view, ^*his Palace was filled with Priests and Diviners, and no superstition was so sottish, but he used to preserve himself. And although the Philosophers seem'd to contemn Death, yet the great preparations they made to encounter it,