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

But the Canaanites were, as was intimated, mistaken in apprehending that to be chiefly an Egyptian Mourning. The true Israelites (those that were such indeed) were the true, concerned Mourners. The Father of Israel was dead: As now with us, the Mother. A Political, tho not a Natural, nor merely an Economical one. A Mother, not in the narrower and more minute, but in the larger and most noble Sense, not of a single Family only, but of Nations.

But the Canaanites were, as was intimated, mistaken in apprehending that to be chiefly an Egyptian Mourning. The true Israelites (those that were such indeed) were the true, concerned Mourners. The Father of Israel was dead: As now with us, the Mother. A Political, tho not a Natural, nor merely an Oeconomical one. A Mother, not in the narrower and more minute, but in the larger and most noble Sense, not of a single Family only, but of Nations.

The Egyptians assisted to make up the Show in that Mourning, but were probably the prepared (as their Posterity were the active) Instruments of the Slavery and Misery of that People, with whom they were now seeming Sharers in Lamentation.

The Egyptians assisted to make up the Shew in that Mourning, but were probably the prepared (as their Posterity were the active) Instruments of the Slavery and Misery of that People, with whom they were now seeming Sharers in Lamentation.

Ours was a Mourning not less grievous than theirs: Nor more grievous than just to the English Nation, i. e. to whom the Soil and the Genius are together native; that are not of an Egyptian Spirit. Unto which, as things happen, (to its Power, or to its Impotency) there is a radical, innate Disposition, either to make Slaves, or to be ⟨p. 4⟩