Agreeable admonitions for old & young. Or, Aged piety honoured, and early piety quickened.…

If none of all these Thoughts are Lively Enough, or if none of them will Enliven thy Early Religion, Think, Think on thy own Mortality. It is not too Soon for you to Die: Oh, why should it be too Soon for you to begin a New Life, and Preparation for Death. If you Die before this be done, it had been Good for you, that you had never been Born. If this be seasonably done, the sooner you Die, the sooner you enter into Joy. How many Young People have already Died before you? Some of them have ⟨p. 29⟩been able from their Death-beds to say, or to write unto their Friends, That they had been so seasonably brought unto Repentance and Conversion; they now found themselves prepared for Death, and were able to Die willingly, and cheerfully. Oh! Happy Youths! Oh! Happiness to be admired and envied! But O Young People, how woeful, how dreadful must your Condition be, if a Dying Hour should quickly surprise any of you, in your Unregeneracy? And, O ye Unregenerates, Who of you can be sure, that you shall not before the next week be out, fall under such a dismal surprise? Then, to have your Eyes with a Dim Cloud, and your Hands with a Damp Sweat, upon them, your Breath failing, your Throat rattling, your Friends in a bitter Agony weeping about you; and now to feel your Immortal Souls irresistibly dragged away, before God the Judge of all, to receive an Eternal Judgment from Him. What, Oh! What! Will you then think of all that Lewdness and Madness, that you have used in Wicked Company, and all the courses of Wickedness, wherein you have departed from God, and forgotten the Admonitions & […] that have been laid upon you to serve Him. What will you think of your ⟨p. 30⟩walking in your Ungodly ways, O Vain Youths, when God shall for these things bring you into Judgment? Oh! These things will be found Bitterness at the latter End! They that have so Profanely and Foolishly scoffed at Religion, will then wish, Oh that I bad more practised the Religion which I derided! And they that have Railed at the Faithful Ministers of God will find that they want the Prayers and the Counsels of those Ministers.

If none of all these Thoughts are Lively Enough, or if none of them will Enliven thy Early Religion, Think, Think on thy own Mortality. It is not too Soon for you to Dy: Oh, why should it be too Soon for you to begin a New Life, and Preparation for Death. If you Dy before this be done, it had been Good for you, that you had never been Born. If this be seasonably done, the sooner you Dy, the sooner you enter into Joy. How many Young People have already Dy'd before you? Some of them have