Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823. Excerpt: ... things which will inflame his thirst the more; but by removing the cause, and so curing his distember. The way for a man to be contented is not by raising his estate higher, but by bringing his heart lower. SECT. IX. The ninth Argument to Contentment. The next argument to Contentment is--The shortness of life. "It is but a vapour," saith James, (Jam. iv. 14.) life is a wheel ever running. The poets painted Time with wings, to show the volubility and swiftness of it. Job compares it to a swift post, Job, ix. 25.--our life rides post---'tis but a day, not a year. It is indeed like a day: infancy is, as it were, the daybreak; youth is the sunrising; full growth is the sun in the meridian; old age is sun-setting. Sickness is the evening, then comes the night of death. How quick is this day of life, spent! Oftentimes this sun goes down at noon-day: life ends before the evening of old-age comes; nay, sometimes the sun of life sets presently after sun-rising. Quickly after the dawning of infancy, the night of death approaches. Oh, how short is the life of man! The consideration of the brevity of life may work the heart to contentment. Remember thou art to be M here but a day; thou hast but a short way to go, and what needs a long provision for a short way? If a traveller have but enough to bring him to his journey's end, he desires no more. We have but a day to live, and perhaps we may be in the twelfth hour of the day; why, if God give us but enough to bear our charges till night, it is sufficient. Let us be content. If a man let the lease, of a house or farm but for two or three days, and he should fall a building and planting, would he not be judged very indiscreet? So when we have but a short time here, and death calls us presently off the stage, to thirst i...
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