.. ,, 43 6 A Sermon at the Fu11eral our hypocrify, ifour aCtions contraqift one the other; if we blefs God, and yet curfe and do evil to our neighbour; if we con– fcis and beg pardon for ..our fins, and yet breathe and n1editate revenge againfi o– thers, and if we have not a refpett to all his comn1andments! If we mufi needs 'look u- · pon the faints and holy men of God in old tirne, as if they had been creatures of ano– ther nature, and confider their exan1ple as ' difproportioned to our condition; yet here we have fcen one , converG.ng an1ongfl us like to ourfelves, fu bjeft to the fame paiuons, temptations, anq infinn ities} and yet con- . quering all thefe through Chrifl thatflrength– ened hi?n. And whyfhould we turn off all fer1ous thoughts to old age, as if we ;vere then only fit for God, when we were fit for nothing elfe! May not the piety' and innocence of his .youth, ihame us into a better 1nind, and n1ore Chriflian lives ! For - honourable age is not that which flandeth in length ofthne, nor that is meajitred by num– ber ofyears. But wifrlom is the gray hair .u:zlo nzen, and an unjpotted life is old age• . 'Thus the righteous that is dead,jhall coJtdernn the zmgod!J which are liv [ng; and yauth that h j00n peJ~[eCled, the many )'ears and .old age of the unrighteotu. And
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