454 A Sermon at the Funeral ' ~y Father in his wife difp6fal of him. The l ife of a Chri!tian is a continual facrifice to God ;-crucifyingour earthly affeCtions, n1or– tifying our finful paffions, and fubduing our wills to his; and this facrifice is finiihed and ·pcrfeCl:ed by death: and the lives of men, -anet the acCidents that befal them ought to .affea our fpirits, according as they break offor advance in facrificing their hearts an·d .t · lives to God.. How co1nfortable has his life been to u~ and to all _go.od men in- .thi-s ~. fpetr; tom the tin1e he w:as devG>ted and '. ·given unto Jefiu Chrifl in his baptifn1, ho\v l1as he been fitted by the grace of the Holy fpirit, to offer up ·his life a continual facrifice to God, refiraining confiantly ~ha corruption of nature fron1 breaking ou~ into any great impurity or critne, fubduing every day his paffions, purifying his affec– tions, fiudying todo ev~ry thing in and for -God, and endeavouring. a continual refigna– tion . of his will to hin1? · And in this we . mufi not regret his few years, and the ihort.. nefs ofhis days; for with God one dc!J is as a thoufondyears, and a thoufondyears as one dqy. Length of life is not to be meafured by many revolutions· of the heavens, ·but ~y the progrefs we · have made in the great - · · . defign
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