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Friendly Reader, Dangerous Curiosity
Be not Curious to Search into the Secrets of god. Pick not not the Locks where he hath allowed no key be that will the fitting every Cloud may be Smitten with a thunder Bolt he that will the too familiar with gods Secrets may Be overwhelmed with his judgements Adam would Curiously increase his knowledge wherefore Adam Shamefully, Soft in his goodness, the Bethshemites would need any into the Ark of god therefore the hand of god Slew above fifty thousand of them, therefore hover not about this flame Lest you Scorch your wing, for my part I will Carefully inquire into or after what he hath Reformed.
Book of Conscience Wouldst thou know whether thy name be written in the Book of Life, Why then read what thou hast written in the Book of Conscience, thou neadest not Ask who Shall Ascend up into heaven You to Search the discord[?] of Eternity, thou mayest But Descend down into thine own heart and there read what thou art and what thou Shalt Be; the gods Book of Election and Reprobation Be Closed and kept above with god yet thy Book of Conscience that is open and kept Below in thy very Bosom, and what thou writest here, thou Shalt Be sure to read there, if you write nothing in this Book But the black Lives of Sin, you will find nothing in gods Book but the red lines of dammation, but if you write gods word in the Book of Conscience, you may be Sure god hath written your name in the Book of Life at the great day of judgment when all Books Shall be opened there you will Either read the sweetest or the Sharpest Lines I will therefore so write here that I may not be ashamed to read hereafter
Death Nothing is so sure as death and nothing so uncertain as the time when we may be too old to Live. We can never be too young to die I will therefore Live Every hour asif I were to die the next __