Remember—you are but mortal!

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"You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before You. 
Each man's life is but a breath!" Psalm 39:5. 

Ah! Can you seriously consider of the brevity of man's 
life—and trifle away your time, the offers of grace, your 
precious souls, and eternity? Surely you cannot; surely 
you dare not—if you do but in good earnest ponder 
upon the shortness of man's life.

Philip, king of Macedon, gave a pension to one, to 
come to him every day at dinner, and to cry to him, 
"Remember—you are but mortal!"

Ah! We have need be often put in mind of our mortality!
I have read of three that could not endure to hear that 
bitter word 'death' mentioned in their ears. Surely this 
age is full of such monsters.