A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…

And now, there is a weighty CASE, that lies before us;

After what manner should we commit our Spirits unto our Lord Jesus Christ, that so the Eternal Safety and Welfare of our Spirits, may be effectually provided for?

If our Faithful BAILY were now Alive, I do not know any one CASE, that he would more Livelily have discoursed among you: but I know, that he would have Discoursed on This, with a Soul full of Inexpressible Agonies. He was a Man, who had, from a Child, been full of Solicitous Cares about his own Soul; and from hence in part it was, that when he became a Preacher of the Gospel, he Preached nothing so much, as the Cares that all men should have, about the Conversion of their Souls, unto God, and the Sincerity of their Souls before Him. There were many Great Points of our Christian Faith, which he still treated with Shorter Touches, because his Thoughts were continually Swallowed up, with the Vast Concern of not being Deceived, about the Marks of a Regenerate and a Sanctified Soul, and Hopes of being found in Christ at a Dying Hour. Those two words, A SOUL, and ETERNITY, were Great Words unto him; and his very Soul was ⟨p. 9⟩greatly, and always under the Awe of them. Hence, The very Spirit of his Preaching, lay in the points, of Turning from Sin to God in Christ, and the Trial of our doing so, and the Peril of our not doing it. Wherefore, as far as alas, one of my sinful coldness in those dreadful points, can do it, I •ill set before you in a few minutes, what I apprehend my Dead Friend would have to be spoken, upon these points, in relation to the CASE, that is now to be considered.

If our Faithful BAILY were now Alive, I do not know any one CASE, that he would more Livelily have discoursed among you: but I know, that he would have Discoused on This, with a Soul full of Inexpressible Agonies. He was a Man, who had, from a Child, been full of Sollicitous Cares about his own Soul; and from hence in part it was, that when he became a Preacher of the Gospel, he Preach'd nothing so much, as the Cares that all men should have, about the Conversion of their Souls, unto God, and the Sincerity of their Souls before Him. There were many Great Points of our Christian Faith, which he still treated with Shorter Touches, because his Thoughts were continually Swallow'd up, with the Vast Concern of not being Deceived, about the Marks of a Regenerate and a Sanctifyed Soul, and Hopes of being found in Christ at a Dying Hour. Those two words, A SOUL, and ETERNITY, were Great Words unto him; and his very Soul was