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2. The meditation of Eternal Life would comfort us in regard of the shortness of natural life. Our life we live now, flies away as a shadow. It is called a flower, Psal. 103. 15. a vapour, Jam. 4. 14. Job sets forth fragile life very elegantly in three of the Elements, Land, Water, Air, Job 9. 25, 26. Go to the Land, and there man's life is like a swift Post. Go to the Water, there man's life is like a ship under sail. Look to the Air, and there man's life is like a Flying Eagle. We are hasting to the grave. When our years do increase, our life doth decrease^*. Death creeps upon us by degrees. When our sight grows dim, there death creeps in at the Eye. When our hearing is bad, there death creeps in at the Ear. When our Legs tremble under us, there is death pulling down the main pillars of the House; but eternal life comforts us against the shortness of natural life. That life to come is subject ⟨p. 52⟩to no infirmities; it knows no period. We shall be as the Angels of God, capable of no mutation or change. Thus you have seen six noble subjects for your thoughts to expatiate upon.

2. The meditation of Eternal Life would comfort us in regard of the shortness of natural life. Our life we live now, flies away as a shadow. It is called a flower, Psal. 103. 15. a vapour, Jam. 4. 14. Job sets forth fragil life very elegantly in three of the Elemen•s, Land, Water, Air, Job 9. 25, 26. Go to the Land, and there man's life is like a swift Post. Go to the Water, there man's life is like a ship under sail. Look to the Air, and there man's life is like a Flying Eagle. We are hasting to the grave. When our years do encrease, our life doth decrease