A funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman Mrs. Margaret Baxter, who…

2ly, add complacency. We are better pleased, ([Greek or Hebrew]) This is a distinct thing, (a valiant Man will venture upon wounds and death, but is not pleased with them) but in reference to so excellent an Object, and Occasion, they must mingle, and the latter runs into the former. We are willing rather (as we read it) to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord. The word ⟨p. 4⟩which we read willing, signifies to approve, or like well, not a merely judicious, but complacential approbation: The word, whence comes the [Greek or Hebrew] often ascribed to God in Scripture; which signifies the high satisfaction he takes in all his Purposes and Determinations. The [Greek or Hebrew] Ephes. 1.5. is certainly no tautology, but speaks how perfectly and pleasingly he agrees, and (as it were) consents with himself in all that ever he had resolved on. This rather, says the Apostle, is our [Greek or Hebrew], the thing that would please us best, and wherein we should most highly satisfy our selves. It would not be the matter of our submission only, or whereto we could yield, when we cannot help it, but of our highest joy and pleasure. According as we find it was with the Psalmist in the same case, ¹(which though it had a further meaning in reference to Christ, had a true meaning as to himself also); Therefore my Heart is glad, my Glory rejoices, my Flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my Soul in (Sheol) the state of the Dead, nor suffer thy Holy One to see Corruption, but wilt show me the Path of Life; and no matter though it lie through the dark shady Vale: It leads however into that blessed presence of thine (the same with that in the Text) where is fullness of joy; and unto that right hand (that high and honourable station) where are pleasures for ever-more.

2ly, add complacency. We are better pleased, (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) This is a distinct thing, (a valiant Man will venture upon wounds and death, but is not pleased with them) but in reference to so excellent an Object, and Occasion, they must mingle, and the latter runs into the former. We are willing rather (as we read it) to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord. The word