The crown & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…

And O! that all that I have spoken upon this account might be so blest, as to work you to take heed of putting the day of your death so far from you. The evil servant when he thought his Master was gone afar off,¹ then he lays about him, distempers himself,² and beats his fellow-servants. And so the lewd woman in the Proverbs, when the good man was gone a long journey, when he was far from home, then she grew wanton, vain, and secure; so when men put afar off the day of their death, then they grow more loose, profane, and unholy; whereas a serious and frequent eying and minding of death, as at hand, as at a mans elbow, would alarm a man to break off his sins by repentance, and to labour for holiness, as a man would labour for life it self. I have read of the women in the Isle of Man, that the first Web they make is their winding sheet, wherewith they usually gird themselves when they go abroad, to show that they are still mindful of their mortality. Ah friends, a constant minding of your mortality, would contribute very much towards the making of you holy: He that daily looks upon death, will be daily a looking after holiness; the oftener any man looks into the grave, the oftener that man will be looking up to heaven, and a begging that God would make him holy even as he is holy. But,

And O! that all that I have spoken upon this account might be so blest, as to work you to take heed of putting the day of your death so far from you. The evil servant when he thought his Master was gone afar off,¹ then he layes about him, distempers himself,² and beats his fellow-servants. And so the leud woman in the Proverbs, when the good man was gone a long journey, when he was far from home, then she grew wanton, vain, and secure; so when men put afar off the day of their death, then they grow more loose, prophane, and unholy; whereas a serious and frequent eying and minding of death, as at hand, as at a mans elbow, would alarm a man to break off his sins by repentance, and to labor for holiness, as a man would labor for life it self. I have read of the women in the Isle of Man, that the first Web they make is their winding sheet, wherwith they usually gird themselves when they go abroad, to shew that they are still mindful of their mortality. Ah friends, a constant minding of your mortality, would contribute very much towards the making of you holy: He that daily looks upon death, will be daily a looking after holiness; the oftener any man looks into the grave, the oftener that man will be looking up to heaven, and a begging that God would make him holy even as he is holy. But,