Christos kai kerdos. = Christ the life, and death the gain, of every true…

And when it pleased God to lay a real foundation of hopes of enjoying that blessing, he was indeed, like a Believer, affected with the goodness and Providence of God, but not at all so transported, as if he had not been long before crucified to it. And when it pleased God to return and blast those hopes, he carried it like one that desired no will but Gods might be accommodated. He expressed as much joy in his disappointment, as ever he did in his expectation. He always said in that near trial, Not my Will, but thine be done. He made it the business of his delight to scatter any cloud of trouble that rested upon your Spirit; and though he naturally rejoiced in his own melancholy, yet the least symptom of sadness in you was a burden too heavy for him to bear. The truth is, all his carriages in this relation have left behind them this true testimony of him, that he rather made most worthy presidents, then confined himself to the best examples. But I fear I have been too long in surveying his perfections in this relation; and in commending him as a husband, I have discommended my self as a friend, in adding too much fuel to the burning flame of your passionate affection. I shall therefore rather bury him as your husband, and present him to you again as the husband of the Common-wealth; to which indeed he was truly married, cheerfully spending himself in a continual faithful pursuit of the Affairs thereof. He was a Timotheus in the ¹Common-wealth, naturally caring for their State: He was indeed by the Providence of God in a very short time called to several places of highest Honour and greatest Trust amongst us, wherein he always behaved himself, though as a Ruler over the persons of men, yet as a true Servant to the good of men: As in his private, so in his public capacity, no ones ⟨image 4⟩less then his own. He still desired that Justice might be as a River, and never coveted, to pale it in as a pond •or his private use. He delighted immediately to serve the public, and at the most but collaterally himself: Yea, many a time hath he vigorously and heartily appeared against his own private interest, that he might approve himself a faithful friend to the Public.

And when it pleased God to lay a real foundation of hopes of enjoying that blessing, he was indeed, like a Beleever, affected with the goodness and Providence of God, but not at all so transported, as if he had not been long before crucified to it. And when it pleased God to return and blast those hopes, he carryed it like one that desired no will but Gods might be accommodated. He expressed as much joy in his disappointment, as ever he did in his expectation. He always said in that neer tryal, Not my Will, but thine be done. He made it the business of his delight to scatter any cloud of trouble that rested upon your Spirit; and though he naturally rejoyced in his own melancholly, yet the least symptome of sadness in you was a burthen too heavy for him to bear. The truth is, all his carriages in this relation have left behind them this true testimony of him, that he rather made most worthy presidents, then confined himself to the best examples. But I fear I have been too long in surveying his perfections in this relation; and in commending him as a husband, I have discommended my self as a friend, in adding too much fuel to the burning flame of your passionate affection. I shall therefore rather bury him as your husband, and present him to you again as the husband of the Common-wealth; to which indeed he was truly marryed, cheerfully spending himself in a continual faithful pursute of the Affairs thereof. He was a Timotheus in the