Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

2dly, It may •te your pride on account of bodily endowments, which […] man is apt to glory in. Value not yourselve on the blossom of youth; for while ye are in your blooming years, ye are but ⟨p. 223⟩ripening for a grave: and death […] stroke, without asking any body's age. Glory not in •our strength, it will quickly be gone • the time will soon be, when you shall not be able to turn yourselves on a bed; and you must be carried by your grieving friends to your long-home. And what signifies your healthful constitution? Death does not always enter in soonest where it begins soonest to knock at the door; but makes as great dispatch with some in a few hours, a• with others in many years. Value not yourselves on your beauty, which shall consume in the grave, Psal. xlix. 14 Remember the change death makes on the fairest face, Job xiv. 20 "Thou changest his countenance, and sendeth him away." Death makes the greatest beauty so loathsome, that it must be buried out of sight. Could a looking-glass be used in the house appointed for all living; it would be a terror to these, who now look oftener into their glasses than into their Bibles. And what though the body be gorgeously arrayed? The finest clothes are but badges of our sin and shame; and, in a little time will, be exchanged for a winding-sheet; when the body will become a feast to the worms

2dly, It may •te your pride on account of bodily endowments, which 〈…〉 man is apt to glory in. Value not yourselve on the blossom of youth; for while ye are in your blooming years, ye are but ⟨p. 223⟩ripening for a grave: and death 〈…〉 stroke, without asking any body's age. Glory not in •our strength, it will quickly be gone the time will soon be, when you shall not be able to turn yourselves on a bed; and you must be carried by your grieving friends to your long-home. And what signifies your healthful constitution? Death does not always enter in soonest where it begins soonest to knock at the door; but makes as great dispatch with some in a few hours, a with others in many years. Value not yourselves on your beauty, which shall consume in the grave,