10.

exceed its whole duration. However, to pal-
liate the shortness of our lives, and somewhat
to compensate our brief term in this world, it
is good to know as much as we can of it; and
also, so far as possibly in us lieth, to hold such
a theory of times past, as though we had seen
the same.
He who hath thus considered the
world, as also how therein things long past have
been answered by things present; how matters in

one age have been acted over in another; and Eccl. i. 9, how there is nothing new under the sun; may conceive himself in some manner to have lived from the beginning, and to be as old as the world; and if he should still live on, it would be but the same thing.

iv. 13.

XXX. Lastly; if length of days be thy porHor. Ep. i. tion, make it not thy expectation. Reckon not upon long life think every day the last, and live always beyond thy account. He that so often surviveth his expectation lives many lives, and will scarce complain of the shortness of his days. Time past is gone like a shadow; make time to come present. Approximate thy latter times by present apprehensions of them: be like a neighbour unto the grave, and think there is but little to come. And since there is something of us that will still live on, join both lives together, and live in one but for the other. He who thus ordereth the purposes of

driotaphia,

this life, will never be far from the next; and
is in some manner already in it, by a happy con-
formity and close apprehension of it. And if,
as we have elsewhere declared, any have been In his Hy-
so happy as personally to understand Christian or Urn-
annihilation, ecstasy, exolution, transformation,
the kiss of the spouse, and ingression into the di-
vine shadow, according to mystical theology, they
have already had a handsome anticipation

of heaven, the world is in a man-
ner over, and the earth

in ashes unto

them.

Burial.

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URN-BURIAL; OR, A DISCOURSE OF THE
SEPULCHRAL URNS LATELY FOUND
IN NORFOLK.