A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

My Lord, God hath set your Lordship in a very high and honourable Station, in which you have shined as a Light upon a Hill: And as he hath given you great Opportunities, so he hath also given you a large Heart to serve him; and this hath given you a large Room in the Hearts of those that fear God, and hath made your Name to be truly Great and Honourable. How amiable a thing is it to see Greatness and Goodness in Conjunction! ⟨p. iv⟩But alas, how rare are the Instances of it in this degenerate Age! How few Great Ones are there that countenance despised Religion! But still, when it hath been under the greatest Discouragements, your Lordship hath publicly owned the Ways of God, your House hath been always open to his faithful Ministers, and your Interest hath always been improved for promoting the Interest of the Gospel.

My Lord, God hath set your Lordship in a very high and honourable Station, in which you have shined as a Light upon a Hill: And as he hath given you great Opportunities, so he hath also given you a large Heart to serve him; and this hath given you a large Room in the Hearts of those that fear God, and hath made your Name to be truly Great and Honourable. How amiable a thing is it to see Greatness and Goodness in Conjunction! ⟨p. iv⟩But alas, how rare are the Instances of it in this degenerate Age! How few Great Ones are there that countenance despised Religion! But still, when it hath been under the greatest Discouragements, your Lordship hath publickly owned the Ways of God, your House hath been always open to his faithful Ministers, and your Interest hath always been improved for promoting the Interest of the Gospel.

God hath lengthened out your Life to a good old Age; And that he may yet prolong your Life for further Service to his Name and Interest, is the Prayer of all those who know your steady and unshaken Adherence to the Principles you have owned. It hath pleased the wise God to exercise you with various Troubles in your declining Years, in the Death of many of your nearest Relations, especially in the late wide Breach he hath made in your Family by taking away your Religious Lady, whose extraordinary Endowments of Mind, exemplary Piety, and singular Usefulness, made her justly dear to you, and admired by all that knew her. Such a Trial as this would shock an ordinary and common Patience, and Constancy of Mind; yet God, by the Supports of his Grace, hath enabled you to bear it. This amazing Stroke is a loud Call from God to a Recess from this World, now the less desirable, because so dear a part of your self is removed out of it; and to a Preparation for a better State, to which She is gone, and your Lordship is hastening. How pleasant will the meeting be, when you shall again see each other, and know and love one another in a better manner than in this World you could! when all those Frailties and Infirmities, which give sometimes a little Interruption to the Comfort of the nearest Relations, in this State of Weakness and Mortality, shall be fully done away!