death, that my departure hence may be in peace, and in Thy favour, and my soul may be received into those Heavenly habitations, where the souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity; and that at the resurrection of the just my body may be reunited to my soul, and fashioned like unto Christ's glorious body; and I may be admitted into the everlasting kingdom of glory; through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, Thine only Son, our Lord and Saviour.

Amen.

O Almighty Lord, Who art &c. p. 180.

Unto God's gracious mercy &c. p. 180.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

The uncertainty of the time of our death: life and immortality brought to light through the Gospel: the judgment of the last day universal.

I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work a.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the

2 John ix. 4.

fishes that are taken in an evil net; and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them ".

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He said I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease; eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided a?

O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from Thee.

Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt Thou bring me into dust again " ?

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death.

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order; and where the light is as darkness o.

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause".

Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him 1.

b Eccles. ix. 12.

e Psal. lxix. 5.

d Ibid. ver. 20. Ibid. ver. 20, 21, 22.

c Luke xii. 18, 19. f Job x. 9.

h Job v. 8.

i Job xiii. 15.

For He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee*.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up'. God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death".

What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee". Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me°.

For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day".

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began; But is now made manifest, by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel".

For as in Adam all die; even so in Christ shall all be made alive".

For God so loved the world, that He gave

His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life".

And this is the Father's will Which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell, and of death".

Death is swallowed up in victory *.

I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it; from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire".

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire".

The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death a.

But he that overcometh, shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son'.

Remember not, Lord, mine offences &c. p. 177.

Lord have mercy upon me &c.

Our Father, Which art in Heaven &c.

Prayer for a blessed departure out of this life; and for spiritual strength and comfort in the hour of death.

O ALMIGHTY God, with Whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly prisons; I humbly commend my sinful soul into Thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator and most merciful Saviour, most humbly beseeching Thee that it may be precious in Thy sight.

Wash it, I pray Thee, in the blood of that

z Rev. xxi. 8. 7.

b Ibid. ver. 7.