NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 81 



But the dead shall arise, and mortality shall be 

 clothed with an immortal livery, that shall never 

 tarnish, nor never diminish, but survive and out- 

 live the ides of time, and flourish when time 

 shall be no more. 



Then let us consider our present state, the 

 shortness of time, the vanity of things, and how 

 light all our services and best performances weigh 

 in the ballance. Let us also consider the morn- 

 ing star ; the illustrious Aurora is rising upon us, 

 and then it will be a perpetual day. Let us im- 

 print on ourselves the characters of our eminent 

 ancestors ; but above all, the lively sufferings of 

 our blessed Saviour on the cross, and no longer 

 paddle in these puddles of sin, nor stumble in 

 the face of the sun at noon-day ; for wounding 

 ourselves by sin, makes our Saviour bleed afresh. 

 We have excellent precedents, that of David, 

 notwithstanding his integrity, and that other of 

 Solomon, tho the prince of wisdom ; of Heze- 

 kiah too, though a very good king; of Josiah 

 and others ; of Paul, a convert ; of Peter, a de- 

 vout reluctant ; of Job's patience, Moses his 

 meekness, Abraham's faith. All these were men, 

 (besides hundreds more in holy writ) now emi- 

 nent saints, whose pieties like so many trophies 

 hang up aloft in the new Jerusalem, to adorn 

 that beautiful and divine habitation, where the 

 Lamb is the light, and where no darkness can 



