3.88 A ·Ser~mon at the Funeral efl: fathers of the church: in vvhich holy epifrles the Chrifiian doCl:rine is fo well re– prefentcd ·; wherein perfons of all ranks anJ conditions have their duties fo clearly dcfcribed; where biili.ops, and pafiors, and people rich and poor, hu:fband and 'vife, parents, and·children, mafiers and fcrvants, the profperous and the afflicted, may learn their Chriftian duty and deportment in their fcveral circun1fiances. But I forbear to fpeak of that great A– pofHe of the Gentiles. The prefent occa-. !ion leads us hither; nor £hall I prefume to n1ake a parallel. I know there is o;te glory of the flm, another of the moon, 01tdan– other of the fiars; and or:e fiar dif!eret!i from. anoth:>r in glor.;'. As the happinefs of the other world, fo the piety and· good:nefs €>[ this have their degrees and 1neafures. I fuall only confider for our infirutl:ion, ho~ in its. O\vn. meafure the life and fpirit of our friend do breath forth the fan1e fenti– rnents,, To me to live is Chrifl: l1ow his life and exa1nple, his converfation and in– ~hutl:ions, his thoughts and·defigns, the in– ward endowments and difpofitions of his foul, and the outward deportn1ent and ae·· tions of his life, \vere, as to the main, the fruits· and effects of a Chriftian fpirit, of a holy
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