Funeral discourses .. . LONDON:Printed for John Noon, at the White-Hart in Cheapftde,TitKY Mercers-Chapel; and Richard Ford, at theAngeli over-againfl: the Compter^ i n the Poulir-^,MDCCXXXVJ, ®# U THE PREFACE. THE contemplation of Death has alwaysbeen ejieemed a point of wifdom, in theheathen philojophy^ and recommended with greatfolemnity. ^is founded in nature and reafon :For if we are certainly mortal, as the experienceof every age teftifies, it mujl needs be reafonableto be fometimes ferioufy thinking of it, and pre-paring for it j and very unreafonable to put itout of our minds, or think
Funeral discourses .. . LONDON:Printed for John Noon, at the White-Hart in Cheapftde,TitKY Mercers-Chapel; and Richard Ford, at theAngeli over-againfl: the Compter^ i n the Poulir-^,MDCCXXXVJ, ®# U THE PREFACE. THE contemplation of Death has alwaysbeen ejieemed a point of wifdom, in theheathen philojophy^ and recommended with greatfolemnity. ^is founded in nature and reafon :For if we are certainly mortal, as the experienceof every age teftifies, it mujl needs be reafonableto be fometimes ferioufy thinking of it, and pre-paring for it j and very unreafonable to put itout of our minds, or think of it with indifference,Tis reprefented in the fcripture as an injlance ofwifdom, to confider the latter end, to numberour days, and know how frail we are ; and weare inJiruSied by the greatefi examples, to befome^times fpeaking of our deceafe, and of the dif-folution, and putting off this our taberna-cle. *T/i indeed a very grave andferious thought^and for that reafon a very ungrateful one to thegenerality of mankindfuneraldiscourse00harr
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