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To be mindful of the day of Death. [ 478]

IT is written of the Philosophers called Brachmanni, that they were so much gi∣ven to think of their latter end,* 1.1 that they had their graves alwayes open before their gates, that both going out, and coming in, they might be mindful of their death; And it is reported of the women in the Isle of Man, that the first Web they make, is their winding sheet, wherewith at their going abroad, they usually guird them∣selves, to shew that they are mindful of their Mortality; And thus though we have not our graves digged before our eyes, nor carry about us the ugly, gastly picture of death,* 1.2 yet let us carry in our hearts, the true picture of our death, a sense of our mortality, a consideration of Eternity, and in all our doings to remember our latter end, and then we shall never do amiss, Eccles. 7. 36.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Geo. Strode Anatom. of Mor∣tal••••y.
• * 1.2

  Vive memor lethi Persius. 5.