A funeral sermon preached upon the death of the reverend and excellent divine Dr.…

For thus God usually renders with interest what he suspended only for trial. But the Saints above are for ever enlightened with the vital splendour, and dear regards of his Countenance, always enjoy his beamy smiles. A continual effusion of Glory illustrates Heaven and all its blessed Inhabitants.

For thus God usually renders with interest what he suspended only for tryal. But the Saints above are for ever enlightned with the vital splendor, and dear regards of his Countenance, always enjoy his beamy smiles. A continual effusion of Glory illustrates Heaven and all its blessed Inhabitants.

And their Contemplation of God is fixed. If the Object, though extraordinary glorious, were transient, or the Eye so weak that it could only see it but by glances, the height of Joy would not be perpetual. But the mind is prepared with supernatural vigour, to see the brightness of God's face, and by the most attentive application always converses with that blessed Object, so that the Joy of Heaven is never intermitted for a moment. They always see, and love, and rejoice, and praise him.

And their Contemplation of God is fixed. If the Object, though extraordinary glorious, were transient, or the Eye so weak that it could only see it but by glances, the heighth of Joy would not be perpetual. But the mind is prepar'd with supernatural vigour, to see the brightness of God's face, and by the most attentive application always converses with that blessed Object, so that the Joy of Heaven is never intermitted for a moment. They always see, and love, and rejoyce, and praise him.

'Tis possible a carnal suspicion may arise in some, as if the uniform perpetual vision of the same Glory might lose its perfect delightfulness. For those who seek for happiness in the vanity of the Creatures, are always desirous of change, and have their Judgments so corrupted,