A funeral sermon for that very reverend, and most laborious servant of Christ, in…

9. Both Christ's Ministers, and their Flocks, are under the greatest obligation imaginable unto union. For their case is one and the same; their miseries were the same, their dangers the same. They must all have the same Saviour, the same way of salvation, and the same end; the same state of salvation, which all the nations of the saved are to be brought to at last, Rev. 21. 24.

10. 'Tis an unquestionable thing, that salvation is to be designed for, by all sorts. Ministers must aim to save themselves, and their hearers. And is the Minister to design his Peoples salvation, and not they, their own! They have mean thoughts of Salvation that stumble here, as if they were only to ⟨p. 47⟩be saved from hell-flames! but to be saved from sin that makes us unlike God! to have his Image, and his Love perfected in us, to be with the rest of the elect, partakers of salvation, with eternal glory, is that mean? 2 Tim. 2. 10.

11. The Ministers of the Gospel must, sometime, or other, be taken away from their work. It is time, a limited duration, within which their work and business lies, for the saving themselves and those that hear them. They are to save themselves. This end they are to pursue; and it must sometime be attained. They are not always to labour, and never rest: sometime, they are to receive the fruit of this their Labour, and the end of their Faith, the salvation of their Souls. As more time passes, their salvation draws nearer than when they believed; they are not always to be in saving, and never saved. In mercy to them, God will translate them; and may it not be in judgment to many, whom they earnestly laboured to save, but who rejected