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

We take this Perfection of the Spirits of the Just to be principally meant of their moral Perfection, such as excludes all Sin and all Misery; as Morality comprehends and connects together Sanctity, the Goodness of the Means, and Felicity the Goodness of the End: the former most directly, but most certainly, inferring the latter. If therefore we say this is their sinless Perfection, we say all that the Case requires.

In that it is said to be the Perfection of Spirits, it must indeed suppose all that natural Perfection which belongs to such a sort of Creatures, as such, in their own kind. But inasmuch as the Specification is added [of the Just], 'tis their moral Perfection, or most perfectly holy Rectitude, from which their Blessedness is inseparable, that seems ultimately intended.

But now whereas this their ultimate Perfection hath been said to be virtually contained and summed up in ⟨p. 19⟩Knowledge, we are hereupon to consider how this may appear to be a complete Summary of all such Perfection: And nothing can more evidently appear if you join together

But now whereas this their ultimate Perfection hath been said to be virtually contained and summ'd up in ⟨p. 19⟩Knowledg, we are hereupon to consider how this may appear to be a compleat Summary of all such Perfection: And nothing can more evidently appear if you join together