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

Could that mouth, which is this Day to be Laid in the Dust, once more be op•ned among us. I know what voice would issue from it: with a very zealous vivacity, I know this voice would be uttered, Man, Thou hast a Soul, a Soul within thee; a Soul that is to Exist throughout Eternal Ages; Oh! prize that Soul of thine, at the greatest rate imaginable. I say then; We must be sensible, That we have Spirits which are Distinct from our Bodies, and which will out-live them: Spirits, which are Incorporeal Substances, Endued with Rational Faculties; and tho' Inclined unto our ⟨p. 10⟩Humane Bodies, yet surviving after them• ▪ An Infidel Pope of Rome, once Lying on his Deathbed, had such a Speech as this; I shall now quickly be certified and satisfied, whether I have an Immortal Soul or no! Woeful man, if he were not until Then certified and satisfied! God forbid, That there should be so much as one Epicurean Swine among us, dreaming, That man is nothing but a mere Lump of matter put into Motion. Shall a man dare to Think, that he has not a Rational Soul in him, which is of a very different Nature from his Body? Truly, his very Thinking is enough to confute his monstrous Unreasonableness: Mere Body cannot Think; and I pray, of what Figure is a Rational Atom? The Oracles of God, have therefore assured us, That the Fathers of our Bodies, are not the Fathers of Spirits; No; these have another Father! And, That the Spirits of men, may go from their Bodies; and be caught up to the Third Heaven too! Well; But when our Bodies Crumble & Tumble before the Strokes of Death, are not our Spirits overwhelmed in the Ruins of our Bodies, like Sampson, when the Philistean Temple fell upon him? No; They are Sparks of Immortality, that shall never be Extinguished; they must Live, and Move, and Think, until the very Heavens be no more. Among other Evidences, That our Spirits are Immortal, there is no Contemptible one, in the Presages, which the Spirits of such good men, ⟨p. 11⟩as he which is […] to be In•err'd, have had, of their Speedy passage in a World of Spirits. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave His own Blood for the Purchase of our Souls, and can Tell, Sure! what it is that He ha's purchased; He ha's Expressly told us, in