44z A Sermon at the Funeral and not the fordid ends of vanity, wo-rld~ly mindcdnefs, or an1bition. And 0 that thefe things n1ay fink into your hear_ts! and. that you may continue iB the things we learned of hitn, and have been affured of, knowing, of whoJn you have learned them! And you whom providence h8.th intru.fted with the care and education of theyouth, pardon n1e alfo to call to n1ind the ex~ ample ofour dear friend, while he n1adc one of your fociety. Y011 know you have the charge of the hopes of the next generation ; and that the welfare both ofthe church and fiate, and their own gGod and happinefs, cloth· very n1uch depend upon the right forming– of their n1inds and tempers in their youn– ger years; and that, as the n1aking this your _ great defign in that en1ployn1ent, doth n1.-oJt. tend to pron1ote it, you can never more ferve your own interefis than in it. All callings have their feveral temptations; and divi-fions, or floth, or intereft, or ignorance; n1ay·be the banc of this. The ill n1anage1nent of it has a n1ore univer(a}ly bad inH.u– ence on the world, than that of the n1oft .other employments, as th~ happy fruits of the faithful djfcharge of it cloth as far tran– fcend n1any others. We are all made for e.t~rnity; and we cannot go about any thi-ng aright
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