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

Accordingly the whole, even of Practical Religion and Godliness, is in the holy Scriptures expressed by the Knowledge of God, 2 Chron. 30. 22. 'Tis signified to be in its own Nature sanctifying, and inconsistent with prevailing Sin, 1 Cor. 15. 34. in which they that live are therefore said to be destitute of it, who are also upon the same Account said not to have had any Sight of God; ⟨p. 24⟩3 John v. 11. He that sinneth (the word is [Greek or Hebrew], a Doer, or Worker of Sin) hath not seen God. The Light which this Vision of God receives, must, much more in the perfected Spirits of the Just, be supposed so prevalent and victorious, as quite to have chased away and expelled all Remainders of this impure Darkness. Every such Spirit is, therefore, become, as it were, an Orb of purest, most operative, and lively Light, an intellectual, and a self-actuating Sun, full of Fervour and motive Power, besides mere Light. Whereupon whatsoever this Light and Knowledge discovers it is fit for such a Soul to be, it is, and fit for it to do, it can never fail to do it.

Accordingly the whole, even of Practical Religion and Godliness, is in the holy Scriptures express'd by the Knowledg of God, 2 Chron. 30. 22. 'Tis signified to be in its own Nature sanctifying, and inconsistent with prevailing Sin, 1 Cor. 15. 34. in which they that live are therefore said to be destitute of it, who are also upon the same Account said not to have had any Sight of God; ⟨p. 24⟩3 John v. 11. He that sinneth (the word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Doer, or Worker of Sin) hath not seen God. The Light which this Vision of God receives, must, much more in the perfected Spirits of the Just, be supposed so prevalent and victorious, as quite to have chas'd away and expell'd all Remainders of this impure Darkness. Every such Spirit is, therefore, become, as it were, an Orb of purest, most operative, and lively Light, an intellectual, and a self-actuating Sun, full of Fervour and motive Power, besides mere Light. Whereupon whatsoever this Light and Knowledg discovers it is fit for such a Soul to be, it is, and fit for it to do, it can never fail to do it.