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

It was little needful to say to Christ, Let us go, whose Mind appeared set upon going, already, but to the Disciples, who drew ba•k. Besides that Reverence might restrain from saying this to our Lord, when what was to be proposed was matter of Hortation, not of Enquiry. Tho' sometimes they feared even to ask him a Question, also; as Luk. 9. 45. And they might the rather, be now, under a present awe, from the rebuke, or expostulatory answer, he had given them, for their objecting against going into Judea. Especially, so as not to signify a remaining fear, which he had so newly checked Therefore Thomas's speech, directed to his Fellow-Disciples, but not out of Christ's hearing (for we have no reason to suppose, that he separated them from him, that he might say this to them apart) is so ordered, as not to import fear of death, but Love to the Deceased.

It was little needfull to say to Christ, Let us go, whose Mind appeared set upon going, already, but to the Disciples, who drew ba•k. Besides that Reverence might restrain from saying this to our Lord, when what was to be propos'd was matter of Hortation, not of Enquiry. Tho' sometimes they feared even to ask him a Question, also; as Luk. 9. 45. And they might the rather, be now, under a present awe, from the rebuke, or expostulatory answer, he had given them, for their objecting against going into Judea. Especially, so as not to signifie a remaining fear, which he had so newly check'd Therefore Thomas's speech, directed to his Fellow-Disciples, but not out of Christ's hearing (for we have no reason to suppose, that he separated them from him, that he might say this to them apart) is so ordered, as not to import fear of death, but Love to the Deceas'd.

If any should object, that Thomas could not mean dying WITH Lazarus, when he was told, he was already dead. ⟨image 4⟩