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sensual guards all declin'd us, and the arguments 

 of sense and reason revolted from us ? Every 

 instrument and organ has reclaim'd its natural 

 function, whereby we perceive our selves desert- 

 ed by the active shining motions of life ; and 

 doom'd to death by the law of sin, we subscribe 

 to the fatal decrees of mortality. 



O fatal flattering impiety, where's all those 

 specious pretences of purity that link'd and in- 

 tail'd our suborn'd inclinations to the gaudy 

 temptations of luxurious honour? What if every 

 man had the wealth of a monarch, and as great 

 as Alexander in empire and dominion ; and sup- 

 pose his domesticks as numerous as the world, 

 yet death would arrest him, and send him sum- 

 mons to appear before Heaven's high tribunal, 

 where he must answer for himself, and not an- 

 other for him ; whilst conscience, as a bold and 

 daring accuser, will accuse him for the deeds 

 done here in the body. So that as our work was 

 here upon earth, such also will be our reward in 

 Heaven. But how sad will it be, when to be- 

 hold the portals of the New Jerusalem firmly 

 bolted and barrocaded against us ; when to hear 

 the dreadful and irrevocable sentence of eternal 

 excommunication pass upon us, to be utterly se- 

 cluded society with the saints, and denied com- 

 munity with the blessed angels, that perpetual- 

 ly triumph with seraphick hallelujahs, as the se- 



