FRANCIS WILLSGHBY. 
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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 ns all, upon this occasion, to 
consider our hater 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 Christ, 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 !” 
