3-70· A Sermm; at the }"imeral tranG11itted to pofieri't:y, 'J?-1ay be dedbce& both fronl~ fcripture and G:omn1on. realon;,. it being_ fit thus. to n1anifefl: the grace and~g,oodnefs of God in n1en-, and thereby to-· advance his glory and king.dpm; and to· make their light fa fuine before others, tlritt they may be ufeful infhuctions to the ~rld~ and- incentives. to follow thei-r ex– amples. To this we owe the remembrance· of all thofe good and great men recorded· in the Old Teft-ament :- nay; on t,his fs grounded the efl-ablifhment and·pu-rity nf our 1noft holy religion. \'(/e ha-v-e left: n& the n1en1orials of the life and doctrine of our ble~ed L~d and ·n,affer in· the· holy gofpels, and the acrs ofhis Apofll'es, whom. he fent to convert the world. And the· · pious ChriHians of fucceeding ages-, ac– cotding to this pattern, were careful, botl-r. by publick difcourfes and-wri-ting·s., to,awa..– ket·~ their o-wn andafter titn.es, with.,the r;e– menlbrance of the z.eal· aqd piety_of holy:' and devout perfons• .~.4nd· no·w, if, by the gen~ral" praehice an&· confcnt of all m·en, record·s of exemplary– ~ety and goodnefs be tt~11s ufeful to po– fbcrity; even. though they be firangers to" the p·er!ons of thofe whofe liv.es and a&i– ons. are tranfinitted to·'!hein; I am fure we .. , laavC7_
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