~~-.~--====~--~~~~------~ 11 Funeral Sermon. j6 . that his very fcrioufne fs was more alluring than thofe light divertifements in others which int ice o~IY. becaufe they .Plcafe: His Appr~henfion was q~ick and p!e~cing, his memory faithful and retentive, h1s phanfie fpnghtful and aCbvc, and Ins JUdgment o\'er-ruling them all, neither prejudicated by vulgar opinions, nor eafi ly (OUfened by varnilht and plaufiblc erronr. After all this, there can be nothing wanting to make up a moft compleat and abfolutc Perfon, but only induftry to quicken his p:1rts, and time to ripen both to perfetl:ion. His induftry was remarkable in the AffiduOufncls of his Studies, where he fpent not his Hours in Plays or Romances, thofe Follies of good Wits, but iu the difquifition of folid and mafculine knowledge: in which he out-ftript even thofe who were to depend upon Learning for their livelihood, and had no other revenue than what arofe out of their fruitful and well Cllltivated brains. And as for that other, t mean time to maturatethefe growing hopes, that fad Providence whichhath called u~ . together to this mournful folcmnity, hath denied it, by a fudden and lhrprizing ftrokc, ·Cutting off his days, and thereby· rendring that Vertue, thofe Parts, that lnduftry, ufelefs to us in any thing but the Example, and I fhould fay unprofitable to him too, but only, that which he never had opportunity to employ in this World, hath, I doubt not, fitted him for a better. . A
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