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A MOST PROFITABLE EXERCISE TO PREPARE our selves for death. VPON THIS MOMENT depends Eternity.
The day you intend to make this exer∣cise enter into the thoughts of death, & look upon that day as the last of your life.
THE FIRST PART.
IMagine your self lying sick upon your death-bed, & that your good Angell is sent by God to give you notice of the irrevocable decree of your death; & that he says to you as Esaye did, to Ezechias, Isa: 38. Dispose of your affairs: because you shall dye & shall no longer live.