A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…

Honours done to the Memory of Great Persons deceased, have by the Wisdom of all Nations been counted Decencies, and even Debts; when especially the deceased have been sometime, and might have been much longer, public Blessings: Then indeed it is that such Rites are most fitly (as they are usually) called Justa.

Honours done to the Memory of Great Persons deceased, have by the Wisdom of all Nations been counted Decencies, and even Debts; when especially the deceased have been sometime, and might have been much longer, publick Blessings: Then indeed it is that such Rites are most fitly (as they are usually) called Justa.

But we are too prone to be taken only with the mere Pomp of such Spectacles, and which is the Infirmity of our too-degenerate Spirits, to be wholly possessed with Fanciful Ideas; as those were intimated to be which ¹were from a Spectacle of the same common kind, tho on a very diverse Occasion, by that elegant Expression, [Greek or Hebrew], such as do but amuse our Imagination a while, but must of course vanish, and cannot stay long with us. But we need that somewhat greater, and too latent to strike our Eye, should another way enter, and teach our Mind; making such Impressions there, as may claim an abode, and that ought to remain, and dwell with us.

But we are too prone to be taken only with the meer Pomp of such Spectacles, and which is the Infirmity of our too-degenerate Spirits, to be wholly possess'd with Phanciful Ideas; as those were intimated to be which ¹were from a Spectacle of the same common kind, tho on a very diverse Occasion, by that elegant Expression, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, such as do but amuse our Imagination a while, but must of course vanish, and cannot stay long with us. But we need that somewhat greater, and too latent to strike our Eye, should another way enter, and teach our Mind; making such Impressions there, as may claim an abode, and that ought to remain, and dwell with us.