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[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

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The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

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As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

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The sum is this, —As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy graces in meditation; and more especially in meditating ...more

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Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

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O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and acquaintance are dead, in whom we disce...more

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The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

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If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next ...more

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The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

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What interest hath this empty world in me? and what is there in it that may seem so lovely, as to entice my desires and delight from thee, or make me ...more