438 A Sermon at the Funeral ufe ·we make of his cxatnple is, to feem' to approve and comn1end it; but wherein do w.e i1i.1itate it? Do we think that otherhelp& would 'do better, that other means and cir– cmnfl:ances would have n1ore influence on our lives: Alas! mybrethren, they that will not hear ]).1ofls and the praphets, neither w -ould they be P:erfuaded though otte Jhould rife front the dead. But v.re are ufually n1ofl: fenfible of the wortl) of \Vorldly .ble_ilings, ~nd moft thankful for the1n, when God takes them fron1 us. And 0 that our appe- -tite n1ay be thus at leafi qu_iekened _for .fpi– tual bleffings ! 0 that our prefent lofs may have this influence upon us, that we may be truly fenfible of God's goodnefs in be– fl-owing this blcffing fo long upon us, that ·we n1ay adore his providence ~n depriving · us of it, and that the impreffions he·.hath ]eft on our minds of his life and fpirit, and the feeds of the gofpel he ·hath fown in · our hearts, 1nay by Cod's grace yet bring forth fruit in us. Finaly 1ny brethren what.foever things are true, whatfoever thing·s are hone(l, -whatfoe<t'er things are juft, &c. Thofo things whichye"have both learn– ed and received, and heard andfeen in him, do: and the God ofpeace ]hall be withyou. And you, n1y friends, who wer.c his more
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