The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preached…The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preach'd…

4. The Servants of Christ must with Resolution and Constancy despise the Allurements and the Terrors of the World in performing the Duties of their Office. ⟨p. 41⟩The Apostle declares his fixed Mind,¹ I count not my Life dear to me, so that I may finish my Course with Joy, and the Ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus: Tho amongst the pikes of a thousand Dangers he was never faint-hearted, much less false-hearted, in the Cause of Christ. The two principal parts of the Minister's Duty are to preserve the Truths of the Gospel inviolate, and to open and enforce the Commands of it in their spiritual Purity and Extent: They are styled the Lights of the World, and the Salt of the Earth.

4. The Servants of Christ must with Resolution and Constancy despise the Allurements and the Terrors of the World in performing the Duties of their Office. ⟨p. 41⟩The Apostle declares his fixed Mind,¹ I count not my Life dear to me, so that I may finish my Course with Joy, and the Ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus: Tho amongst the pikes of a thousand Dangers he was never faint-hearted, much less false-hearted, in the Cause of Christ. The two principal parts of the Minister's Duty are to preserve the Truths of the Gospel inviolate, and to open and enforce the Commands of it in their spiritual Purity and Extent: They are stiled the Lights of the World, and the Salt of the Earth.

1. 1Acts 20.24.

All the Truths of the Gospel are of precious value, but not of equal clearness and moment: And Christian Charity should moderate between Dissenters in smaller Matters, who agree in the main Points of Religion. But those Truths of the Gospel that are primary and radical, and those that