Meditations and contemplations - containing meditations among the tombs (1816) (14593441859)

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Title: Meditations and contemplations : containing meditations among the tombs ..

Year: 1816 (1810s)

Authors: Hervey, James, 1714-1758

Subjects: Meditations Christian life

Publisher: Bungay : Brightly and Childs

Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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s :They walk in a vain shadow, and disquiet themselvesin vain. Speak, ye that attended such a one in his last mo-ments, ye that heard his expiring sentiments ; did henot cry out, in the language of disappointed sensual-ity ? * O death ! how terrible is thy approach to*^ a raaa immersed in secular cares, and void of all^ concern for the never-ending hereafter ! Where, alas ! is the profit, where the comfort of enter- ing deep into the knowledge, and of being dex-* terous in the dispatch of earthly affairs ; since I have, all the while, neglected the one thing need- ful ! Destructive mistake ! I have been attentive to every inferior interest; I have laid myself out* on the trifles of a moment; but 1 have disregarded heaven, have forgot eternal ages ! O ! that my*^ days— Here he was going on to breathe somefruitless wishes, or to form, I know not what, inef-fectual resolutions. But a sudden convulsion shookhis nerves, disabled his tongue ; and, in less than anhour, dissolved his frame.

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^a-z Jlih.t^TI^mncr/Ifi/ Afji/ IValHssc^^l O Death! /h>irfr7nM^ is t/uj (I/jhrparh. AMONG THE TOMBS^^, 29 May tlie children of this world be warned, by thedying words of an unhappy brother, and gather ad-vantag^e from his misfortunes. Why should tlieypant with such impatient arflor, after white and yel-low earth, as if the universe did not afford sufficientfor every one to take a little ? Why should theylade themselves with thick clay^ when they are torun for an incorruptible crouin, and pi^ess towardsthe prize of their high calling ? Why should theyoverload the vessel in which their everlasting all isembarked, or fill their arms with superfluities, whenthey are to swim for their lives ? Yet, so prepos-terous is the conduct of those persons, who are allindustry, to heap up an abundance of the wealthwhich perisheth ; but are scarce so much as faintlydesirous of being rich towards God. O ! that we may walk through all these glitter-ing toys, at least with a wise indifference, if notw

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