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5. The Death of godly Friends hath in it the greatest occasion of all for our grief. Besides the ty• of nature, which hath an equal respect here as elsewhere, we may observe a farther call to it under this consideration that they were godly, for;

1. The loss it self is upon this account the greater: and that both personally; we must needs suffer the more by it, by how much the more profitable they were unto u•; and soul advantage is the greatest of all: […] •ore of benefit that we enjoyed by having their presence and company with us, so much the more must we lose in our ••sing of them: and upon a public account also, in which we are jointly concerned with others: the Death of the Godly is an universal loss; all that they lived among are suffere•• by it; •ea though it be of a private Christian, for he was a public good; and this cannot but afford us the greater ⟨p. 37⟩reason and matter for sorrow: There is always some of the glory of a people goes away when a godly man dies.

1. The loss it self is upon this account the greater: and that both personally; we must needs suffer the more by it, by how much the more profitable they were unto u•; and soul advantage is the greatest of all: 〈…〉 •ore of benefit that we enjoyed by having their presence and company with us, so much the more must we lose in our ••sing of them: and upon a publick account also, in which we are jointly concerned with others: the Death of the Godly is an universal loss; all that they lived among are suffere by it; ea though it be of a private Christian, for he was a publick good; and this cannot but afford us the greater