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OF CONCILIATING GOD.
same day that he died, when about to go into the Capitol, letters were given him, declaring the danger in which he stood. If he had read them, he would have been saved.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, God does thus with mankind. We receive many warnings, but not attending to them, are eternally destroyed.
TALE XVIII.
OF CONCILIATING GOD WHILST WE HAVE OPPORTUNITY.
The Romans had an ancient custom, that when they besieged a castle or city, a lighted candle should be put under a certain measure; and as long as it burnt, they were pre-
