A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Use 2 Secondly, Seeing by the appointment of God we must all shortly die, let us be persuaded to be always in a readiness and preparation for it. Our Souls are Immortal and must live for ever, and when our Bodies die and fall into the Dust, they immediately enter into an Estate that is for ever unalterable.¹ Now here I shall only lay down a few directions and so conclude.

Ʋse 2 Secondly, Seeing by the appointment of God we must all shortly die, let us be perswaded to be always in a readiness and preparation for it. Our Souls are Immortal and must live for ever, and when our Bodies die and fall into the Dust, they immediately enter into an Estate that is for ever unalterable.¹ Now here I shall only lay down a few directions and so conclude.

1. 1Directions to prepare for Death.

First, Wean your Hearts from an inordinate love of the World. ¹Death must and will pluck you from it; and, oh! it will be a violent rending if your affections be glued to it. Consider that all things in this present World are fading and perishing, but your precious Souls are ever living and Immortal; be not ⟨p. 35⟩therefore unequally yoked, join not your ever-living Souls to dying comforts. This is a tyranny worse than that which was Exercised by those of old, who tied living Bodies to dead Carcasses. Oh! what a sad parting hour will it be to thee, when thou shalt go into another World, and leave behind thee all that thou countest good in this, how wilt thou protract and linger, and wishly look back again, upon all those precious vanities, and dear nothings and follies that here thou placedst thy happiness and contentment in: But now when the heart sets loose from all these things, with what satisfaction shall we be able to Die, accounting what we lose by Death to be no great matter, because what we gain thereby will be infinitely more to our advantage.