The fight of faith crowned, or, A sermon preached at the funeral of that…

1. Let us be well grounded in the Fundamentals of Religion, the Doctrine of Justification, Regeneration, the Resurrection, and the eternal recompenses, Col. 1. 23. Grounded and settled; such as are unprincipled will be led into any error, the Mass or the Alcoran, you may lead a blind man any whither; he will hardly ever suffer for the truth that doth not know it.

1. Let us be well grounded in the Fundamentals of Religion, the Doctrine of Justification, Regeneration, the Resurrection, and the eternal recompences, Col. 1. 23. Grounded and setled; such as are unprincipled will be led into any error, the Masse or the Alchoran, you may lead a blind man any whither; he will hardly ever suffer for the truth that doth not know it.

2. If we would hold on in the Faith let us preserve a jealous fear of our selves; fear is the souls life-guard, it causeth vigilance, it banisheth presumption, Rom. 11. 20. Be not high-minded but fear. If God lets go his manu-tenancy we fall. How many have been over-turned with self-confidence as the vessel with the sail. Pendleton's proud brag was soon confuted, instead of his fat melting in the fire, his heart melted; the fear of falling keeps us from falling. Fear begets prayer, and prayer begets strength, and strength begets constancy.

3. If we would keep the Faith to the end, let us labour to taste the sweetness of Religion in our own souls,