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

We have had a mournful sad Solemnity and Assembly, tho decently pompous and great: England's Glory clad in Sables, and glittering in a Cloud. But now let us lift up our Eye, and endeavour it may penetrate through this Darkness, and behold the glorious Spectacle which this Context presents us with.

Funeral Solemnities, even for pious and holy Persons, and that were of greatest Use in the World, are dull and gloomy Spectacles, if they are only considered in their Retrospection, without Prospect, or if they only solemnize their Exit, out of this World of ours, but be understood to have no reference to their Ascent and Entrance into the Regions of Immortality and Bliss above. And, without this, we see our selves outdone by the Egyptians themselves, with whom their Funeral Apparatus had reference to a subsequent Immortality.

These Words are allusive, and promiscuously refer, partly to things known and famous among the Greeks, but are more principally accommodate to these Christian Israelites, or Hebrews, to whom they are writ, and (in a Scheme of Speech, familiar and well known to them) have Respect to their Passage out of Egypt (as the 3d and 4th Chapters of this Epistle also have) towards the ⟨p. 8⟩Land of their promised Inheritance, whereof the Remains of their venerable Ancestor and Head, holy Jacob, or Israel, had, by Divine Instinct and Direction, in that mentioned solemn Funeral Procession, been conveyed before, to take a sort of Typical and Prophetical Prepossession of it for them.

These Words are allusive, and promiscuously refer, partly to things known and famous among the Greeks, but are more principally accommodate to these Christian Israelites, or Hebrews, to whom they are writ, and (in a Scheme of Speech, familiar and well known to them) have Respect to their Passage out of Egypt (as the 3d and 4th Chapters of this Epistle also have) towards the