William Sherlock, D.D., A Practical Discourse Concerning Death, from the seventeenth Glasgow edition (Albany: Pratt & Doubleday, 1814), The Introduction, pp. 9–10

There is not a more effectual way to revive the true spirit of christianity in the world, than seriously to meditate on what we commonly call the four last things, death, judgment, heaven and hell; for it is morally impo…