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I. WHY IS MAN SO FORGETFUL OF HIS END?

(1)  Not because he can have any doubt as to the importance of it.

(2)  Not because he lacks reminders of the sad event.

(3)  Not because he has the slightest hope of avoiding it. Why then?

1. His instinctive repugnance to it.

2. The difficulty of realising it.

3. The commonness of the occurrence of the event.

4. The prevalent expectation of long life.

5. The secular engrossments of life.

6. The systematic efforts to render man oblivious of the subject.

II. WHY SHOULD MAN REMEMBER HIS END?

1. That we may duly estimate our sinful condition.

2. To moderate our attachments to this passing life.

3. To stimulate us to a right preparation for the event.

4. To enable us to welcome the event when it comes.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

WEB: Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.