The graves of the aged; the difficulties and hazard
of a late repentance; youth entreated to enter
upon a course of holiness without delay
The singular wisdom and felicity of the righteous;
the rest of their bodies; the calmness of their de-
parture; the safety of their disembodied souls;
their delightful situation till the judgment-day
Monument of a warrior, slain in battle; reflections
on the death of Christ, that it was voluntary, fore-
seen, undergone for enemies; was most torturous,
lingering, and ignominious
The meanness of being obliged to a monument for
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perpetuating our names: author's wish for himelf;
true method of eternizing our characters
The vault; its awful aspect; grandeur in abase-
ment; the vanity of pleasures, honours, and riches
The clock strikes; a warning to redeem the time
The wonderful change which takes place in the tomb,
displayed in several particulars
Soliloquy of a lover; admonition to the ladies; true
beauty of the fair sex
Sin the cause of our dissolution
Subject of mortality brought home to our own case;
incitement to improve life; this the best embalming
View of our Saviour's sepulchre; his lying in the
grave has softened it for his people; faith in his
dying love disarms death
The resurrection of the righteous; their meeting the
Judge; their acceptance at the great tribunal
Sickness, sin, and death destroyed; bliss or misery
unchangeable; observation on eternity
The wicked; the anguish of their last sickness: no
hope but from the religion they despised; that
very precarious; the horror of their dissolution;
this the beginning of sorrows; their treatment in
the invisible world; reserved to the judgment of
the great day
They rise, though reluctant; are distracted with
terror; covered with contempt; condemned to
endless woe
To be instrumental in saving our fellow-creatures
from this misery, the truest exercise of benevolence
A reflection on the vast importance of these truths;
a persuasive to act under the believing consider-