"3. That the righteous are taken to a place of happiness immediately at death, and the wicked consigned to misery.
"4. That wealth does not secure us from death.
"How vain are riches to secure
Their haughty owners from the grave.
"The rich, the beautiful, the gay, as well as the poor, go down to the grave. All their pomp and apparel; all their honors, their palaces and their gold cannot save them. Death can as easily find his way into the mansions of the rich as into the cottages of the poor, and the rich shall turn to the same corruption, and soon, like the poor, be undistinguished from common dust, and be unknown.
"5. We should not envy the condition of the rich.
"On slippery rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.
"6. We should strive for a better inheritance, than can be possessed in this life.
"'Now I esteem their mirth and wine.