A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

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.

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 glewed 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 yoaked, joyn 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 Carkasses. 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.