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selves to think that a time must and will come wherin we shall be sick: We are now in life, and therefore we can hardly cast our thoughts into such a mould to think we shall die; and hense it is true, as the common Proverb is, There there is no man so old, but he thinks he shall live a year longer. 
It is true, this is the way of man-kind to put far from us the evil day and the thought of it, but this our way is our folly, and one of the greatest occasions of those other follies that commonly attend our lives, and therefore the great means to cure this folly and to make us wife, is wisely to consider our latter end. This Wisdom appears in those excellent effects it produceth, which are generally these two: 1. It teacheth us to live well. 2. It teacheth us to die easily. For the former of these, the consideration of our latter end doth in no sort make our lives the shorter, but it is a great means to make our lives the better.
1. It is a great monition and warning of us to avoid Sin, and a great means to prevent it. When I shall consider that certainly I must die, and I know now how soon, why should I commit those things, that if they haften not my latter end, yet they

selves to think that a time must and will come wherin we shall be sick: We are now in life, and therefore we can hardly cast our thoughts into such a mould to think we shall die; and hense it is true, as the common Proverb is, There there is no man so old, but he thinks he shall live a year longer.
It is true, this is the way of man-kind to put far from us the evil day and the thought of it, but this our way is our folly, and one of the greatest occasions of those other follies that commonly attend our lives, and therefore the great means to cure this folly and to make us wife, is wisely to consider our latter end. This Wisdom appears in those excellent effects it produceth, which are generally these two: 1. It teacheth us to live well. 2. It teacheth us to die easily. For the former of these, the consideration of our latter end doth in no sort make our lives the shorter, but it is a great means to make our lives the better.
1. It is a great monition and warning of us to avoid Sin, and a great means to prevent it. When I shall consider that certainly I must die, and I know now how soon, why should I commit those things, that if they haften not my latter end, yet they

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