Preparation for Death; or, Considerations on the Eternal Maxims

Alphonsus Liguori

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FIRST CONSIDERATION. PICTURE OF A MAN WHO IS BUT A SHORT TIME GONE TO ETERNITY.

PICTURE OF A MAN WHO IS BUT A SHORT TIME GONE TO ETERNITY.

“Dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.** — Gen. iii. 19.

FIRST POINT.

Consider that thou art dust, and that thou shalt return to dust. A day will come when thou shalt die, and rot in a grave, where ** worms shall be thy covering.^’ — Isaias xiv. 11. The same lot awaits all, the grandee and the peasant, the prince and the vassal. The moment the soul leaves the body, she shall go to her eternity, and the body shall return to dust. “Thou shalt send forth their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.” — Ps. ciii. 29.

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