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    the mind for the endurance of every evih But in the season of affliction the world is of no value to a guilty mind , to a diseased body , a troubled soul , or even to any persons on the bed ' of death , and on the confines of eternity . Then , as this worid will be diminished , the future will be magnified to tlje mind's

    eye , yet both perhaps may thus then at last appear in their true light and size . The present life will then seem a vapour / cml y yariously coloured ; it will then be manifest that man is a stranger and pilgrim on the earth , and that his days pass aw sty like a shadow .

    < e When /* to adopt the author ' s own words ,, ^ the period of life , lia * overtaken pae ^ and tne awful messenger of death has read me the summons of my departure out of it , what is the world to me ? When I lye upon a dying bed , watching my ebbing life , expecting every bteath tq be my last , and waiting for that solemn moment when the world invisible shall open on my soul , what is this world to me ? €

    < . Anticipate that solemn moment 3 it will be with you in reality ere Ipiig ^ Place yourselves on the verge of time , imagine that your course is finished , that your glass is run out ; and from the margin of eternity Jook at the approaching and at the receding world : —how vast , how ^ sudden , how inexpressifile a change in your conceptions and affections How much is the one world magnified , the other how much diminished

    in your view ! Arrived at such a period , things seen and temporal , all that we possessed , and all that we wished for upon earth , shrink into Vanity and nothing ; things spiritual and invisible , all that we esteemed so lightly and neglected so unreasonably in the moral and eternal worlds , swell into infinite importance , and appear to us all in all . How insignificant are the possessions that lately we so much p rized , and hx \ fhich we so muph yaunted ! J 3 ow cool and languid tne desires that lately were so fervent and so restless ! How indifferent our regards to this world , which lately were so cordial and sincere !

    ** Why am I so enamoured of a vapour , that appeareth but for a little while 5 of a vapour , on which before it vauisheth , my eyes may be for ever closed ? A stranger and pilgrim upon earth , whvwhouldmy treasures and my heart be fixed where my days are as a shadow , gliding hastily , constantly , and incessantly away ? Hurried as I am down the stream of time , shall I set my heart upon the fading flowers th <| t grow upon its banks ? No , I must not be so injurious to myself ; I agaust not be so ungrateful to my maker . The creature must not hold the Creator ' s place in jny esteem ; the world must not banish God frorn jfny heart y eternity must not be sacrificed to the little interests of jrime /* fTa Be concluded in our nextx J

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    J"he Olil Testament fllustratedy being Explications of re-\ yiarkable Facts and Passages in the Jewish Scriptures * which have been objected to by Unbelievers , and the proper t % ndfrs . ( qnd [ iiig of which rn ^ j / be rendered conducive to a

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/37/