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emptiness and insufficiency of all things here 

 below, to satisfy the vast desires of our immortal 

 souls. Comfort, O Lord, and support the hearts 

 of thy servants who have the greatest interest in 

 this loss, and be thou pleased also to counsel and 

 direct them. Give us all, upon this occasion, to 

 consider our latter end, and to prepare for it ; to 

 wait all the days of our appointed time, until our 

 change come ; to consider that we can die but 

 once, and after death comes judgment ; that upon 

 this moment depends eternity ; that as the tree 

 falls, so it lies ; as death leaves, so shall judgment 

 find us ; as we spend a few days here, so it will 

 be with us for ever hereafter ; that we must all 

 appear before the judgment seat of Chris* to 

 receive according to what we have done in the 

 body, whether it be good or whether it be evil. 

 Help us, therefore, to work while we have the 

 light and the day, because the night comes in 

 which no man can work, and to pass the time of 

 our dwelling and sojourning here in thy fear. 

 And for thy deceased servant, give us to imitate 

 his meekness and humility, his temperance and 

 sobriety, his exemplary chastity and purity, his 

 dutifulness and obedience, his justice and righte- 

 ousness, his faithfulness and constancy, his patience 

 and submission to thy will, and all those other 

 eminent graces and virtues wherewith thou wert 

 pleased to beautify and adorn his soul ; that so 

 we, together with him, may, after this life ended, 

 be made partakers of thine everlasting kingdom 

 and glory in the world to come I" 



