Funeral discourses .. . was fenfibly touched in her lafl: iicknefswith the tender affedion of her dt^v yoke-fello%v^and could not bear the concern he fometimesexpreft about her. She delired, what fl:is laid, flie never did before, that unlefs he could reflrain his pallion, not to fee him:But affured him, flie was ilitisfied of her flate,and of the grounds of her hope j and was fofar from being afraid to die, that ihe defired todepart^ and he with Chri/i; and that flie knewthrough grace, that when this earthly hoiije ofher tabernacle was diljohed, Jhe had a buildingof God, an houfe not
Funeral discourses .. . was fenfibly touched in her lafl: iicknefswith the tender affedion of her dt^v yoke-fello%v^and could not bear the concern he fometimesexpreft about her. She delired, what fl:is laid, flie never did before, that unlefs he could reflrain his pallion, not to fee him:But affured him, flie was ilitisfied of her flate,and of the grounds of her hope j and was fofar from being afraid to die, that ihe defired todepart^ and he with Chri/i; and that flie knewthrough grace, that when this earthly hoiije ofher tabernacle was diljohed, Jhe had a buildingof God, an houfe not made with hands, eternalin the he aliens. Let the confideration of fuch an exampleas this alTwage the grief of bereaved and defo-late relations J confirm our faith of the chri- flian ^26 Deliverance from theFear of Death, ftian doctrine, and encourage the faith anddiligence of every iincere chriftian: And Godgrant, that we may not be fonnd. Jlothful^ butfollowers of them who thro faith and patience in-herit the SER- 427
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