Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…

And, I beseech you, consider this seriously with your selves. Is there any man so vile, and void of shame, as that he dare presume solemnly to bequeath ^dto some honourable person, some greasy dish-clout, or some dirty shoo-clout, or some filthy, menstruous, mattery rag? or so sottish, and void of common sense, as to imagine once, that such a person as he is would accept of such a gift? yet ^eis not any such thing so vile and abominable in mans eye, but a sinful soul is much more vile and ^fabominable in Gods sight. And ^gdare any then presume to tender such a present unto God? or can he conceive the least hope, that God should accept of it? What should God do with a foul, a filthy, a profane, an impure a sottish, a beastly, a brutish, a swinish soul? Is suc• a soul fit to be and abide with God in heaven, where i• ^hnothing but holiness, where ⁱno unclean thing ca• enter?

And, I beseech you, consider this seriously with your selves. Is there any man so vile, and void of shame, as that he dare presume solemnly to bequeath ^dto some honourable person, some greasie dish-clout, or some durtie shoo-clout, or some filthie, menstruous, materie ragge? or so sottish, and void of common sense, as to imagine once, that such a person as he is would accept of such a gift? yet ^eis not any such thing so vile and abominable in mans eye, but a sinful soule is much more vile and ^f