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ON

SICKNESS, SORROW,

AND

DEATH.

BY THE

REV. EDWARD BERENS, M.A.

ARCHDEACON OF BERKS.

FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1839.

LONDON:

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

SERMON I.

MORTALITY OF MAN.

The voice said, Cry.

ISAIAH xl. 6, 7.

And he said, What shall I cry?—All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it;-surely the people is

grass.

THERE is hardly anything which more disposes a man for serious religion, hardly any thing which more powerfully leads him to fix his thoughts and his heart on God, and to embrace the salvation offered him through Christ, than the contemplation of the shortness and uncertainty of human life. This affecting consideration, accordingly, appears to be proposed by the Divine teacher in the chapter from which the text is taken, in order to "prepare" in the hearts of men "the way of the Lord," and to dispose them to receive with thankfulness the good tidings of the coming of Him who should "feed his flock

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