954 A F ;mera! :iermon on Dr.. W illiam Bates. ----g;-;-as. to~ivc a Specime~Powcr, ,as Jurh, over un~\' erfai'N;;r~~e Joh. ' ' >· ~~~~ ~f~~;d~;~~~;;:;~~l~!~~,cz~~~~r~,~n~h~;fo,mi~~oe~~,b~~~~;-·~~do:trm~~! thj~gs ~:.t\,1 : ~~: ' 8 • him,. botl~ in H_eaven and Earth, fo as that, by him, aU tbings m11jt conjijl. A. Pofer. h: Rev. 21. 5. was to u.e, bemg gradually, and at .laft, pcrfealy, to make all things new. v. 2 s. He w~s to. make good hJs ow.n T1rle, 1 am tiJe Refurr.eifion and tbe Lifo, which he aiTum.es m tlus Context; to let 1t be feen he was no va111 Pretender; and that it was na vam Faith that 010uld be plac'd upon him, in this rcfjJeiJ: ; but that what he lhould now do, _as to ~ne, he.was able equa~Jy t~ do, in the fit fcafon for every one, when· aft: eh. S· 28. th.1t are tn therr Graves JhotJ!d hear hzs voJCe, He was to 111ew forth a re(imblanceof that more peculi.r Aa, ofhis moll gracioufly Eph. • · undena!<cn office,_to beaSpnng of Lrfe to Souls morally dead, v1z. m tre/p-ffes an~ ~~d· m~~~~~:::';v~:.~~~e, and moll noble kmd of !tfe! to do that, moll merciful, He was to take away all caufe or pretence for defpair, but that, whereas a death If•. ••· , 9 • h~~sd:~lt;!,~)b~}J~~!~)£ and upon his Church on Earth, both he himfelf, and it, <Pith tail;;h~r~e~o~~e:~~"~~~n~f:~~:t .~~~hi~~~IJ:~~i~~w~~;c~i ~.~~~~'!c~u~o~~!Ya~d MounLa z arus c.vme forth ! forth. we now lightly touch, hoping they may be of further ufc to us after. We expeiJ: not the like thing in our prefent !ll{)Urnful cafe; but w~ expeiJ: greater things; for which we are to await our Lord's Scafon. b1 the mean time, let us return and-_conGder, what is overtur'd in the C(lfe the Text refers to, when, as to any [u&b Remedy, the mourning Friends expet\:edas little as we. Here was a worthy good Man Hone. A Friend of Chrilt, and of his Frie.nds. ~~~~~i~~tJ ~~;:ss ~~tlf'!~no:h~e;:;;~n~ial Immortality. Chrillians, even the beft of This was a Matter taken to Heart by Chrill h.imfclf, as we have feen, in a wa1 becoming, and worth] of him. His Difciples alfo are deeply concet•n'd, and they conflder, and difcourie it, their way. One of them, Thom,u, who alfo was call'd D1dymtu (wherein is no other My fiery,. than that his Name is firfi given us in Hebrew, then jn Greek, a,s is not unexampl'd cl fewhere) propofcs, as you have heard ; · Let us alfo go, that 1ve may die with IJim. Out of the •bundance of the Heart the Mouth fpeaket.h. There was, no doubt, an abounding fulnef> of Se~fe~. in this goo.d Man's Soul, from whence the('e Words did proceed. · -i\nd it nliS,hl be two-fold: Either, 1. Good and Commendable, flt for our Imitation, and whereto the temper of our Spirits 01ould be conform. A. !'~:Jirar~~~ !,~Pfel~:~?ble; fuch, as again!! which, we l110uld a~m Such mixtures are not to be thought !!range. 'Tis little to be expetted, that in what is hallily faid, by the bell 011 Earth, on an occalion apt to llir Paflions, there fbould be nothing but pure breathings of Heavenly Vv ifdom, and Goodnefs, 1. Under the former Head. we /hall fpeak of divers things which we cannot, in· deed, he fore were the explicit, dilliniJ: Senfe of this good Man, at this ti(Ile, but wluch mi(,bt he; and lhould be ours on a like occafion. Which well agree with Chriltian Prmciples, and which his words ferve aptly enough to exprefs:; as, x. A firm belief of afuture {late. Did thisgoodMan o.nlydefirc to partake with the other in Death, and no more? Did his Wifh termmat( here? Can we apprehend any thing good, or dejireab!e, in meer Death, that one wou.ld covet to fhare in, with another? Or which one would be loath he 01ould engrofs alone? Nor could Tbomas mean this, havi•g heard that La:::.arus was already dead. It cannot be thought, that one _ who
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