And this is the bitter pill that they must swallow
down at last; for after all their tears, their sorrows, their
repentings, their wishings and wouldings, and all their inventings
and desires to change their state for a better, they must lie down
in sorrow.
The poor condemned man that is upon the ladder or scaffold, has, if
one knew them, many a long wish and long desire that he might come
down again alive, or that his condition was as one of the
spectators, that are not condemned and brought thither to be
executed as he. How carefully also does he look with his failing
eyes, to see if some one comes not from the king with a pardon for
him, all the while endeavoring to fumble away, as well as he can,
and to prolong the minute of his execution. But at last, when he has
looked, when he has wished, when he has desired and done whatever he
can, the blow with the axe, or the turn with the ladder, is his lot:
so he goes off the scaffold; so he goes from among men.
And thus will it be with those we have under consideration: when all
comes to all, and they have said and wished and done what they
could, the judgment must not be reversed; they must lie down in
sorrow.
XXIX. MISCELLANEOUS.
THE SABBATH.
THIS day is called the Lord's day, the day in which he rose from the
dead.
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