To Mrs. Anna Adams, Widow, and Coll. John Adams, Brother to the Deceased Mr. Richard Adams.

To Mrs. Anna Adams, Widow, and Coll. John Adams, Brother to the Deceased Mr. Richard Adams.

My Honoured Friends,

My Honour'd Friends,

Death is too common a Theme, and too obvious to our Sense to be thought strange, any more than that we live. But that the Course of our Life, as to the Rise, Progress, and Period of it, is at the dispose of one common Lord of all, because it belongs to a Sphere above Sense, is little considered by the most. To you, I doubt ⟨image 4⟩not, its far from being a new or unfamiliar Thought. And thereupon, that the Precious Life you have lately seen Finished, was measured by Him who could not therein be unkind to him who is gone; or to you who stay behind.

DEath is too common a Theam, and too obvious to our Sense to be thought strange, any more than that we live. But that the Course of our Life, as to the Rise, Progress, and Period of it, is at the dispose of one common Lord of all, because it belongs to a Sphere above Sense, is little considered by the most. To you, I doubt ⟨image 4⟩not, its far from being a new or unfamiliar Thought. And thereupon, that the Precious Life you have lately seen Finished, was measured by Him who could not therein be unkind to him who is gone; or to you who stay behind.

We do, indeed, Tempt our selves, if we expect from his kindness, unreasonable Things. As that he should, to Gratify us, alter the Course of Nature, or recall the Universal Commission of Death, or only let it stand in force with an Exception, as to our selves, our Relatives, and Friends, or that he should tear his own most inviolable