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Flee also Youthful Lusts.
I Am come this day to speak to you in the name of a dying man; and dying mens words should leave living affections, and lasting affections upon hearts of the Hearers. Nay, that which is in∣finitely more, I am come to speak to you in the Name of the Living God: and therefore, I beseech you, be serious; remember that we are not now about a laughing-business; it is no less then for Lives and Souls: and for ought that I know, as you demean your selves now, it may fare with you to all Eternity: And if that will make you mind what I say the more, know this, That what I shall now speak, is but a Comment upon what was yesterday delivered in brief, from one that was in perfect health, and in the Grave the same day. And who knows whether there be not some here alive, and in health, that before to morrow morning shall be lumps of clay, and this the last Sermon that ever they shall hear! Wherefore I beseech you Sirs, if you love the life of your souls, hearken as if you expected to die as soon as my Sermon were ended.