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. 1753 edition. : ...those who have been converted by your example, and reformed from a licentious course of life, declare this to your public honour before men and angels: Your holy example, though buried long in silence, shall have a glorious resurrection in that day, and the judge himself shall proclaim it to your praise, that he used your piety here on earth, as an instalment of his grace to enlarge his kingdom. 3. Hereby christians of a lower form, and those that are babes in Christ, are awakened to a holy imitation of your superior virtues and graces. It was the continuance of St. Paul in this lise, through the various stages of it, that recommended him as a pattern to the believers of his day, in all the various circumstances of theip lives; and the longer he lived, the more glorious example he left behind him, for the benefit of the saints, that they might be ' followers of him as he was of Christ" 1 Cor. xi. 1. And I may add in the Fourth place, Where a christian of shining virtues and of diffusive goodness is blesied with a long life, the memory of his example, and the sweet savour of his graces, remain the longer on earth, after his own departure to heaven. It is like a rich perfume that has lain some considerable time among garments, it communicates a pleasant fragrancy to the apparel long after the perfume it self is removed. Thus many a faint, by the sweet odour of his name, has done honour to the gospel in the place where he lived, while his bones are mouldering in the dust: The history of his various virtues, has dwelt long on the lips of the surviving neighbours v bours and perhaps, hath awakened others to an imitation of such a pattern many years af ter his decease.surance. Many a soul has gone to heaven as in a chariot of triumph, after some years of their practice of Christianity, who, at their first profession of it, were oppressed with many doubts and fears, and were often trembling upon the borders of despair. Life was their blessing...