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

ever free of all self-displeasure, never finding any cause, or shadow of a cause, for any angry self-reflection upon any undue thought or wish in that their present, perfect state, though not unmindful what they were, or might have been, and ascribing their present state, and stability, to the Grace of God, and dedicating their All to the praise and glory of that most Free and Unaccountable Grace; all well assured, and unsuspiciously conscious, with unexpressible satisfaction, of their acceptance with God; and placing with the fullest sense and relish their very life in his favour. All full of the most complacential benignity towards one another, counting each one's felicity his own, and every one's enjoyments being accordingly multiplied so many thousand-fold, as he apprehends every one as perfectly pleased and happy as himself.

ever free of all self-displeasure, never finding any cause, or shadow of a cause, for any angry self-reflection upon any undue thought or wish in that their present, perfect state, though not unmindful what they were, or might have been, and ascribing their present state, and stability, to the Grace of God, and dedicating their All to the praise and glory of that most Free and Unaccountable Grace; all well assured, and unsuspiciously conscious, with unexpressible satisfaction, of their acceptance with God; and placing with the fullest sense and relish their very life in his favour. All full of the most complacential benignity towards one another, counting each one's felicity his own, and every one's enjoyments being accordingly multiply'd so many thousand-fold, as he apprehends every one as perfectly pleased and happy as himself.

Let but any one recount these things with himself, as he easily may with far greater enlargement of thoughts, many more such things as these, and he needs not be at a loss for a notion of this perfect state of the Spirits of the Just.