Asarkokaukemma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, opened in a sermon preached…Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached…

I Was a sad Hearer of the Funeral Oration that was spoken at the interment of my beloved Cousin K. L. wherein ⟨p. 100⟩although his picture was so excellently well drawn, and so like him while it was then held forth unto us, as if he had been alive an hour longer then he was; yet give me leave to put a little varnish upon it, which, I hope, may not at all deface that curious piece, but thus by embellishing each line, make his Labours last the longer: Truly I have for some years past very much studied this deceased Gentleman, and although he soared a pitch ⟨p. 101⟩too high for me to reach him, and thereby was above my imitating, yet I had been a very unhappy Proficient, if I had not boen able to draw some Notes, and make some Observations from him, whereby not only my self, but those that read them from me may be the better by it.

I Was a sad Hearer of the Funeral Oration that was spoken at the interrement of my beloved Cousin K. L. wherein ⟨p. 100⟩although his picture was so excellently well drawn, and so like him while it was then held forth unto us, as if he had been alive an houre longer then he was; yet give me leave to put a little varnish upon it, which, I hope, may not at all deface that curious peece, but thus by embellishing each line, make his Labours last the longer: Truly I have for some yeares past very much studied this deceased Gentleman, and although he soar'd a pitch ⟨p. 101⟩too high for me to reach him, and thereby was above my imitating, yet I had been a very unhappy Proficient, if I had not boen able to draw some Notes, and make some Observations from him, whereby not only my self, but those that reade them from me may be the better by it.

It was no hard matter to raise a hansom fabric, upon a foundation so well ordered and disposed to the receiving it, and in him Nature had so elegantly