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 THE CHRISTIAN IN LIFE AND 
 
 IN DEATH, 
 
 A SERMON. 
 
 PREACHED IN TUNKKSWELL CHURCH, ON 
 bUiNDAY, JANUARY 27, a850. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 (RECTOR OF ASHFORD, D&FON,) 
 
 ON OCCASION OP THE 
 
 OF ELIZABETH POSTHUMA, 
 
 WIDOW OF THE LATE LIEUT. GENERAL SIMCOE,| 
 OF WOLFORD LODGE, DKVON. 
 
 PENHEALE-PRESSj 
 RKY. H. A^glMCOl, LAONOBtTON, OORVWAU. 
 
 1850. 
 
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A SERMON. 
 
 REVELATIONS XIV. 13. 
 
 «« BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DKE IN THE 
 DUD FIIOVI HENCEFORTH: YEA, SAITH THE 
 SPIIUT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR 
 LABOURS; AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW 
 THEM." 
 
 I FEEL, and doubtless you feel with me, that 
 the occasion of my standing in this holy place 
 to-day is one of a deeply solemn and affecting 
 character, the death,— ihe departure rather— of 
 a friend esteemed, revered, beloved— most justly 
 esteemed, most justly revered, most justly be- 
 loved by us all. Well indeed may we mourn 
 the loss of such a friend I But it is our privilege 
 through the grace and mercy of God," not to 
 mourn as those without hope:" Oh no! We 
 think of the departed, we look back at the piety 
 of her life, and seethe humble Christian living 
 in the Lord ;" we look at the peacefulness ot 
 her death, and «ee the peaceful Christian dying 
 
 B 
 
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 " in (he Lord ;'* ^nd we Jook at the volume of 
 God's own unerring wo^d, and \\p hear " a voice 
 from heaven saying, Bit's:^ vi ajo iIjo ! m'I v 'i "!i 
 die in the Lord l*' Oh breiiir^M, it i>; mI ' eh 
 seasons as this that the heart feels the ^inspj' »k- 
 able preciousniess of such a messigo Warn lie<v 
 ven, when t]ie thoughts have been dwellinf^ Mili 
 some dear departed one in the sutieiing^; uf 
 sickness, the solitude pf tjie coffin, the sjlonce of 
 the grave, with what a sweetness an<i power of 
 consolation does this * voice of the Spirit ' break 
 upon the soul — " Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord ; even so saiih the ^pirjt, thf^t 
 they may rest from their labours ;" then* labours 
 in the Christian warfare, their labours of faith 
 and love; and their works do follow them, evi- 
 dencing the reality of their faith, and the siq- 
 cerity of their love. Here is comfort, instruction, 
 encouragement for us all: comfort respecting 
 the dear friend whoni we lament, in the assu- 
 rance that our loss is her eternal gain; that 
 from sojourning with us in the 8e$h she ims 
 passed into a blessedness $uch as niortai eye 
 bath not seen, nor ear hesjird, nor heart con- 
 peived ! instruction and encouragement respecr 
 ting Oi^rselves, still left for a while pilgrjrns iq 
 this earthly wilderness: instruction as shewing 
 how we may attain the same heavenly blessed • 
 ness; and encouragement in the certainty that 
 we shall attain it if we seek it rightly in the 
 Lord. And may the power of the Spirit ?ipply 
 
ume of 
 
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 s [-){'-» k- 
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 if faith 
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 uction, 
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 he has 
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 rjrns iq 
 hewing 
 ilessec? • 
 ty tha( 
 in the 
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 ihis word of the Spirit effectually to each of us 
 for comfort, instruction, and encouragement I 
 May the Almighty Spirit be to each of us as 
 he was to ou • blessed friend,— a Spirit of light, 
 and liie, and holiness, and peace'. Awake, 
 awake, O arm Of the Lord, put on, put forth 
 thy strength; if there be souls here spintuaUy 
 dead in trespasses and sinS; by thy life-gi^Jng 
 energy raise them from the death of sin to tHe 
 life of righteousness; and those whom thou hast 
 thus raised vouchsafe to Strengthen, establish, 
 sanctifj^ more and more, and grant that we may 
 all kno<^, in our elfernal experience, how "bles- 
 Sed are the dead which die in the Lord.'* 
 
 '' "r .he Lord :" how much is implied in these 
 
 , rds !— baptism, and the great change 
 
 ving faith, and the mighty blessings 
 
 S. id sealed by Christiar? baptism. We 
 
 find trte .expression used in the New Testament 
 
 Scriptures to denote the Christian's union with 
 
 Christ as signified and sealed by baptism. Thus 
 
 Christians are spoken of as "baptized into 
 
 Christ," the word irito denoting their entering 
 
 and being admitted in»o that state, being used 
 
 in connexion with baptism; and Christians so 
 
 baptized are spoken of afterwards as being "in 
 
 Christ, in the Lord." But the expression implies 
 
 also the reality, through the hivoking power of 
 
 the Holy Ghost, the realrty of that death unto 
 
 sin and new birth unto righteousness, of which 
 
 the baptismal rite is the figure, the reality of 
 
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 that cleansing by the blood and Spirit of Christ, 
 of which the application of water is the sign ; 
 the reality of that faith in Christ as the Son of 
 God, the Prophet, Priest, and King of his peo- 
 ple, of which baptism is the profession, i^e real 
 acting out of that living faith in Christ, through 
 which the believer cleaveth to Christ, and fol- 
 loweth Christ, in newnes^s of life according fn 
 his word ; that faith through which the inner 
 man receiveth nourishment from Christ, bringeth 
 forth the fruits of the Spirit of Christ, evein as 
 the branch in the vine receiving living sap from 
 the vine produces the fruits of the vine. Thus 
 was our departed friend " in the Lord," baptized 
 with water and with the holy Spirit, having not 
 only the sign, but also the thing signified ; shew- 
 ing not only the profession, but also the posses- 
 sion and power of true faith, and thus living in 
 the Lord, she died in the Lord, and in the Lord 
 she liveth for evermore. 
 
 In thus speaking of the departed, I speak not 
 to her praise, but to the praise of that grace of 
 God by which she was what sKe was. Praise 
 while living she would have declaimed and 
 deprecated; praise when dead she needeth not: 
 in the sight of God and in the memory of man 
 her works do follow her. And, oh, bow utterly 
 less thar: nothing must be aU praise and dis- 
 praii»e from man, when the blessed spirit has 
 heard from the adorable Redeemer, the ever- 
 lasting Judge, •' Well done good and faithful 
 
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 • Christ, 
 le sign ; 
 Son of 
 lis peo- 
 LiQ real 
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 ind fol- 
 rding to 
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 evei) as 
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 , Thus 
 )aptized 
 ing not 
 : shew- 
 
 posses- 
 living in 
 he Lord 
 
 eak not 
 grace of 
 
 Praise 
 ed and 
 eth not: 
 of man 
 ' utterly 
 ind dis- 
 3iril has 
 ie ever- 
 
 faitbful 
 
 servant, enter thou into the joy of thy LordJ' 
 But I would direct your attention to a few 
 particulars respecting her, the consideration of 
 which may tend, with God's blessing, to pro- 
 mote an object which lay near her heart while 
 she lived, and which, if the spirits above ran 
 take any interest in things below, sha would now 
 desire most especially to have promoted, namely, 
 «he welfare, the spiritual and eternal welfare of 
 her lc:-llow cvMures. And for this purpose I 
 shall si eali not of her powers of mind, or sound- 
 ness of j..dgment, or decision of character — 
 natural endowments given perhaps in the same 
 measure to few; but rather of those " fruns of 
 the Spirit" to which, through the same divme 
 Spirit, all Christians should aspire, and in seek» 
 ing, cherishing, and manifesting which we are 
 all called to « follow her good example. 1 he 
 subject indeed is large, imj oilant, holy and 
 glorious, and I feel m^seU ulierly unequal lo ii, 
 unable to do any thing like justice to it; but I 
 would desire to look humbly to Him whose 
 strength is made perfect in the weakness oi 
 man and who alone can work in any of us that 
 power of godliness which we are privileged 
 to contemplate in remembring our honoured 
 
 fri'^nd. « 
 
 You know that the grand leading feature in 
 her character was re%£o»-true practical god- 
 liness. In the ordering of Ut affairs, the man- 
 
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 agement of her household, the employment o 
 her means, the habits of her daily life, mi^ht be 
 spen the guiding governirtg influence of religion, 
 there was evidently ah higher principle and a 
 nobler object than merely temporal things could 
 supply, evidently a looking to soitifething beyond 
 the applause of man, the gratification of sense, 
 the p(»ssessions of earth— ^ai looking to things 
 spiritual, invisible, eternal- a regard for the 
 will, the favour, approval and glory of God in 
 Christ Jesus, flowing forth in works of piety 
 to wards God, and of benevolence and beneficence 
 10 men, adorning the doctrine of the JSavioui^ 
 and the Church of whijh she was a faithful 
 member, t believe ihat the finest type, the 
 hiiihest exemplificaion, of the Christian cha- 
 racter is to be found in the true, SouAd, consistent 
 member of tne Protestant Church of England. 
 And such was our revered friend,— a true 
 Church of England woman; and as such a true 
 Christian in principle and in practice, in faith 
 and in works. Her works, her practice you all 
 know, approve, sfdmire ; trace them to their 
 sources, the principles from whence they sprung, 
 and let us remembbr it is only as we have the 
 same principles that we can have the like cha- 
 racter on earth, the like blessedness in heavt'ti. 
 These prirtciples then itt her case were those 
 religious principles which are called Evangelical; 
 on this point we have her own testimony : 1 am 
 privileged to hold here a statement written by 
 
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 n>ht be 
 religion, 
 ie and a 
 ^s could 
 
 beyond 
 ►f sense, 
 » things 
 
 for the 
 
 God in 
 )f piety 
 leficence 
 JSavioui^ 
 
 faithful 
 'pe, the 
 in cha« 
 insistent 
 ^ifigland. 
 -a true 
 h a tru6 
 in faith 
 1 you all 
 to their 
 sprung, 
 »ave the 
 ke cha- 
 heaven. 
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 gelical; 
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 tten by 
 
 herself more th^n thirty years ago, by which 
 though dead, she yet speaketh for our instruction 
 and profit; and a most valuable testimony it is, 
 not un!y to the fnnmdeental importance of those 
 scriptural truths which the world so often des- 
 pises, bt.t also :o the soundness of her O'^n faith, 
 H\4 the un,que,<^tionab!e certainty of her pr^-sent 
 and eternal bIessodne>s. Hear her words, ' Now 
 while my senses are perfect I will declare that 
 1 trust and expect to die in those evangelical 
 prinoij lea wiiich f >rm the happiness of my life, 
 and 1 trtisi ant; licp«' will do of my death.' 
 Observe i!hs re narkable declaration made, as 
 from a rpecial regard to God's glory, while her 
 senses, all her powers of mind and judgment, 
 were pttrfect : intellectual faculties there were 
 of a high order, the taste of an elegant, cuhi- 
 vated, accomplished mind ; ample means for 
 their gratification,— the possession of earthly 
 affluence, »he enjoyments of domestic life, the 
 affection of dutiful children, the attachment of 
 numerous friends, the respect and esteem of all 
 the neighbourhood, the consciousness of a life 
 spent in the paths of honour, virtue, integrity 
 and usefulness ; yet none of these things are 
 spoken of as especially constituting her happi- 
 ness, but * those religious principles which are 
 called Evangelical.' Nor are we left in doubt 
 as to wh?it she meant by * Evangelical principles :' 
 Jier own italtcment is in substance this, * by 
 Evangelical I mean a humiliating estimate of 
 
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 our moral condition as radically corrupt, and of 
 ourselves as unable even to think a good thought : 
 a conviction also that the death of Christ is an 
 all-sufficient sacrifice and atonement for our sins, 
 whereby those who believe in him are saved 
 from the curse of God's broken law, and have 
 his righteousness imputed to them ; and a con- 
 viction that by the power of the holy Spirit we 
 are « lone enabled to feel any good desires, or 
 to do those, works which are the evidences to 
 ourselves that our callin": is sm'e, and that we 
 have been blessed by divine grace with a lively 
 
 faith.' 
 
 These Evangelical principles, comprehending 
 (be it remembered) a deep heartfelt conviction 
 of those great truths, namely, our utter corrupt 
 and lost state by nature— justification through 
 ihe aionnuj; sacrifice asi'l perft'Cl righteousness 
 of Christ, and sanciifica*iun by the regenerating 
 and rei^iewing power of the Holy Ghost: these 
 are the very principles revealed in holy Scripture, 
 maintained in the Articles and Homilies of our 
 reformed Church, and inwrouglit into the sub- 
 stance of all our Church services: wherefore? 
 doubtless that by God's blessing they might be 
 inwrought in all our hearts, and become the 
 substantial elements of our character; God 
 grant they may be so more and more I The 
 following jangru^e of our dear friend, respecting 
 the individual she was thus addressing, just ex- 
 I>resses what 1 am sure wogld have been her 
 
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 )t, and of 
 ihougbt : 
 rist is an 
 rour sins, 
 ire saved 
 ind have 
 nd a con- 
 Spirit we 
 Bsires, or 
 dences to 
 d that we 
 [i a lively 
 
 •ehending 
 ionviction 
 :5r corrupt 
 I through 
 iteousness 
 enerating 
 >st: these 
 Scripture, 
 ies of our 
 the sub- 
 here fore ? 
 might be 
 jconae the 
 ler ; God 
 >re I The 
 respecting 
 U just ex- 
 been her 
 
 desire for us all,— < I earnestly pray that the 
 power of God may (for no other power can) 
 make you so taste of those principles/ 
 
 And now observe the effects, the actual mani- 
 fested influence, of these principles in our de- 
 parted friend; whose heart and mind were 
 impressed with them, and made (to use her own 
 expressive language) * to taste of them.' You 
 know her habitual happy cheerfulness of mind, 
 her happy freedom from carking care and dis- 
 quiting anxieties. Mark then the source and 
 support of that happiness; you remember her 
 own words, that her * Evangelical principles 
 formed the happiness of her life, and her hope 
 and trust were that they would form the hap- 
 piness of her death :' nor was that a vain hope ; 
 that trust was not disappointed: those divine 
 principles which dissipated the dark clouds, and 
 let in the full cheerful sunshine on her pathway 
 of life, shed a bright and beautiful radiance 
 along ** the dark valley of the shadow of death.*' 
 The Lord, her well known and beloved shep- 
 herd, who for many a year with unfailing care 
 had fed her in the green pasture, and led her 
 forth beside the waters of comfort, was still 
 with her, and gave her to know and feel the 
 truth of those words which she had often uttered 
 with the lips in this place, and which we have 
 heard again this morning,— 
 
 *1 past the gloomy vals of deaths 
 From fear and danger (tw^ 
 
For there his aiding rod and staff 
 Support and comfort me.' 
 
 But observe her testimony' further on this point, 
 * Before these principles were, by the blessing 
 of God, impressed on my mind, I thought of 
 death with terror^ and was never composed in 
 my mind respecting either temporal or eternal 
 concerns.* 
 
 There may possibly be persons here who 
 make light of what are called * Evangelical 
 principles,' speaking of them perhaps as 1 have 
 heard them spoken of, with a sort of scornful 
 contempt, as indicating weakness of mind. Con- 
 sider this remarkable testimony : you know 
 something of the mind which gave it; a mind 
 distinguished by superior acuteness, clearness, 
 strength, solidity, soundness, soberness; yet ac- 
 cording to its own deliberate and unquestionable 
 testimony, until these Evangelical principles 
 were, by God's blessing impressed on it, thai 
 mind was never composed respecting either 
 temporal or eternal concerns, and never thought 
 of death but with secret feelings of terror. And 
 that was perfectly natural and reasonable ; such 
 were reasonably the feelings of thie human heart 
 knowing something of its sinfulness, and of the 
 holiness and justice of the Almighty Judge. 
 And if you think at all seriously of your sins, 
 and of the infinite holiness and justice of him 
 who is coming to be yotir Judge, such would be 
 your feelings. 1 am speaking perhaps to some 
 
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 s point, 
 blessing 
 ught of 
 )osed in 
 eternal 
 
 ire who 
 ngelical 
 s 1 have 
 scornful 
 d. Con- 
 know 
 a mind 
 earness, 
 
 yet ac- 
 ionable 
 Inciples 
 it, that 
 f either 
 thought 
 . And 
 e; such 
 in heart 
 I of the 
 
 Judge, 
 ur sins, 
 of him 
 )uld be 
 some 
 
 whose feelings are such ; disquieted midst the 
 uncertainties of life shrinking with secret dread 
 from the prospect of death. The time was when 
 our blessed friend feU even so : but she found 
 relief J deliverance, from such tormenting fears ; 
 and composure, peace, happiness were her por- 
 tion in life and in death. How? <Froihthe 
 power of those religious principles which are 
 called Evangelical.* And it is only from the 
 influence of the same principles that you can 
 find the like deliverance, the like rest for your 
 
 soul. 
 
 We read in the thirteenth chapter of the 
 book of Numbers, that among the Israelites in 
 the wilderness of Paran were exhibited a large 
 cluster of rich grapes, and beautiful pomegra- 
 nates and figs ; but they did ^not grow in that 
 wilderness; and Caleb and Joshua had been 
 in the promised landj and plucked them in the 
 valley of Eshcol, and brought them to stimulate, 
 and cheer, and encourage their brethren in the 
 wilderness with such earnests of the goodness of 
 the land; so the happiness, cheerfulness, and 
 peace which adorned our dear friend's earthly 
 course were not of earthly origin ; they sprung 
 not from the natural stock of mental endow- 
 ments or moral virtue, but from the spiritual 
 root of Evangelioftl principles; her faith had 
 laid hold on the Saviour, and through him had 
 penetrated the land of promise, and gathered 
 of the heavenly fruits, and shewed them as 
 
14 
 
 beautiful specimens of the richness and blessed-* 
 ness of that inheritance. Wherefore ? That we 
 might be stimulated, and cheered, and encou- 
 raged to press forward toward the prize of our 
 high calling in Christ, to seek and to cherish a 
 like precious faith with her, that we also might 
 be filled with "joy and peace in believing." Oh 
 seek that faith ; seek the living power of those 
 principles of the blessedness of which we have 
 seen such delightful evidence ! seek more and 
 more from the teaching of God's work and 
 spirit a humbling conviction of your utterly 
 corrupt, lost, and h'^lpless state through sin, a 
 realizing knowledge of the fulness and freeness 
 of salvation, * by grace through faith in Christ,' 
 and an experimental acquaintance with the 
 enlightening, renewing, sanctifying power of 
 " the spirit of life in Christ Jesus." 
 
 If you are a stranger to these things, if your 
 mind has not been impressed, if your heart has 
 not been made in any measure to taste of these 
 principles, what hope have you? vhat peace, 
 what happiness, in the prospect of death, judg- 
 ment, and eternity ? I may possibly be speak- 
 ing to some who know nothing practically of 
 these principles, living just as they might have 
 lived if Christ had never died for ihem ; having, 
 it may be, the form of godliness, but denying 
 the power thereof; while some perhaps are al- 
 together careless, thoughtless, indifferent, world- 
 ly ; and some perhaps outwardly and openly 
 
blessfed* 
 rhat we 
 encou* 
 1 of our 
 herish a 
 
 might 
 ng." Oh 
 of those 
 we have 
 lore and 
 ork and 
 
 utterly 
 
 ^h sin, a 
 
 freeness 
 
 1 Christ/ 
 A^ith the 
 »ower of 
 
 if your 
 leart has 
 
 of these 
 it peace, 
 th, judg. 
 e speak- 
 ically of 
 ight have 
 I having, 
 
 denying 
 )s are al- 
 it, world- 
 i openly 
 
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 tingodly. As a Minister of that Saviour 
 who hath loved you and given himself for your 
 redemption, let me speak a word to you; and 
 may the holy Spirit enable me to speak a word 
 in season 1 may the Spirit carry the word with 
 power to the heart, to the soul, to the con- 
 science I that there may be an awakening, an 
 alarm, a conviction of danger, a .leemg to the 
 Saviour-a laying hold upon the hope set before 
 us in Christ. You know that you have a soul, 
 an immortal soul, >.hich must either be saved 
 or lost; you know that you must live for ever 
 in the perfection of happiness, or in the perfec- 
 tion of agony ; and doubtless you sometimes 
 think of this r When some friend or neighbour 
 dies, while you see the grave open, or hear the 
 bell tolling for the tuneral of another, then 
 perhaps the thought arises that . vow al^o nusi 
 die, that your turn will come, that the hour is 
 drawin,^ near, how near you cannot tell, when 
 
 death will lay his »-"^ ^V^^^^ VfffnVath' 
 limbs will becomecold, motionless, si.ff in death, 
 
 your heart cease to beat, your breath cease to 
 be drawn; your ears be closed, your eyes 
 dimmed and darkened in death; when your 
 body will be wrapped in the shroud nailed up 
 in the coffin, buried in the grave; and your soul 
 will have returned to God the J^idge of all. 
 And then some thoughts of the resurrection day 
 and the final judgment day, the outbursting of 
 the divine glory in the heavens, the appearing 
 
16 
 
 of the Lord Jesus in the clouds, '^ revealed in 
 flaming fire/' and the shouts of the heavenly 
 host, and the trump of the archangel ; and 
 above all the mighty voice of the Lord himself 
 penetrating the depths ol earth and sea; and 
 the opening of the graves, and the rising of the 
 dead; the rising of your body reunited to the 
 soul, and yourself standing before "the great 
 white throne ;" and the books opened, and 
 every secret thing brought to light ; and the eye 
 of the Judge fixed on you, and the sentence of 
 the Judge pronounced on you, and your eternal 
 portion declared, assigned, entered on, — where? 
 with the saved or the lost ? with the blessed or 
 the damned? Oh, when such thoughts arise, 
 when such solemn thoughts are present to your 
 mind, do you not feel that the one thing, the 
 great object, which above all others most deeply 
 concerns you, is to escape the damnation of hell, 
 attain the blessedness of heaven? Shall it be 
 so? Then by the blessing of God must your 
 mind be impressed with, your heart made to 
 taste of, these great Evangelical truths: then 
 as a humbled, guilty penitent must you flee to 
 Christ for refuge, and find forgiveness and ac- 
 ceptance through his atoning blood and perfect 
 righteousness, and " become a new creature ** in 
 Him, renewed, sanctified by the spirit of life in 
 Him. So our depa d friend fled to him, 
 sought him, was found of him, and blessed with 
 salvation by him. And he is willing to be found 
 
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 ;a]ed ia 
 eavenly 
 1 ; and 
 himself 
 ia; and 
 J of the 
 
 I to the 
 e great 
 d, and 
 the eye 
 ;ence of 
 eternal 
 •where ? 
 jssed or 
 s arise, 
 to your 
 ing, the 
 
 deeply 
 of hell, 
 
 II it be 
 t your 
 nade to 
 i: then 
 flee to 
 ind ac- 
 perfect 
 ire ** in 
 
 life in 
 
 him, 
 id with 
 
 1 tbund 
 
 of you, and to bless you, if only yoo seek him 
 and come to him with humble, believing, pray- 
 ing, submissive hearts. Hear his own gracious 
 words, " Come unto me, all ye that labour and 
 are heavy laden, and I will give you rest: take 
 my yoke upon you, and learn of me, and ye 
 shall, find rest for your soiils," Matth. xi. 28. 
 And again he says, *'Hiin that comeih unto me 
 I will in no wise cast out," John vi. 37. Oh be 
 persuaded, be encouraged, to come to the Sa- 
 viour while he thus invites you, while he yet 
 ** waits to be gracious!" Oh be wise, consider 
 your latter end, and seek the Lord while he 
 may be found, that your latter end may be 
 like hers, whose death, you know, was full of 
 peace, and whose resurrection will be full of 
 glory. 
 
 Let me remind you further, that * those prin- 
 ciples which formed the happiness of her life 
 and of her death,* separated our friend from 
 the vain pursuits, pleasures and amusements of 
 the world. You know that she walked not in 
 such ways : not because she had naturally no 
 taste for such things, not because as a Christian 
 she cut herself off from all pleasure^ but because 
 her principles raised her to higher, and greater, 
 and better pleasures, her faith laid hold on 
 nobler and loftier objects, and found delight in 
 them. The toys of childhood deh'ght the chiW ; 
 but the ifian, as the Apostle expresseth it, ''puts 
 away childish things," not because be has no 
 
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 pleasures, but because he has other and higher 
 pleasures: so the toys of the world may delight 
 the children of the world, but the Christian, 
 realizing in faith the great truths of the gospel^ 
 leaves such things, because he finds delight in 
 other and heavenly things; as St. Paul tells us, 
 "They that are after the flesh do mind^ the 
 things of the flesh, but they that are after the 
 Spirit the things of the Spirit," Rum. viii. 5. 
 Hear our Christian friend's testimony. Refer- 
 riig to the great truths of the gospel, slie sa}S, 
 « If an individual really believed these things,, 
 he could not pass so much of his time in the 
 anxieties and disquietudes,' (and doubtless she 
 would have addeJ the vanities,) *of earthly 
 things, and spend comparatively so little thought 
 upon the things of eternity.' In faith her 
 thoughts dwell much on the things of eternity, 
 not with feelings of doubt, disquietude, and 
 dread, but with an assured hope and expectation 
 of a blessed inheritance there through that Sa- 
 viour whose love she knew, and whom she loved ; 
 and that, be it remembered, not from any n&tu« 
 ral superiority or amiableness of disposition, but 
 from the influence of the divine Spirit. Hear 
 her again, * Until a right spirit be implanted in 
 us, which worketh by love, that we should love 
 him who died for us, we shall not delight in 
 piety, but perform works of piety from duti^ 
 rather than from pleasure; until we feel a lova 
 of Christ and communion with God through 
 
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 i higher 
 
 delight 
 hristian, 
 J gospel^ 
 light ill 
 
 tells us, 
 lind the 
 ifter tho 
 
 viii. 5. 
 Reler- 
 lie sa>s, 
 e things,, 
 e in the 
 lless she 
 
 earthly 
 
 thought 
 iith her 
 eternity, 
 ide, and 
 recitation 
 
 that Sa- 
 le loved ; 
 ny n&tu- 
 tion, but 
 t. Hear 
 lanted in 
 uld love 
 elight in 
 cm dutjf 
 el a love 
 
 through. 
 
 him, what delight can we feel in the expectation 
 of meeting our God V This is an important 
 and precious passage ; it opens to us the source 
 and substance of her special pleasure and delight 
 in piety and the works of piety, in communion 
 with God, and in the expectation of meeting her 
 God, and that from a right spirit implanted, not 
 inborn, observe her language, but implanled--- 
 produced by the power of the Holy Ghost in 
 connfr^xion with the Evangelical truths before 
 referred to. Now consider how blessed must 
 have been her state of mind, and think not that 
 true religion will make you gloomy and melan- 
 choly, and cut you off ^rom all enjoyment of 
 pleasure : it would separate you from vaia plea- 
 sures, but only to give you other pleasures belter, 
 higher, purer, permanent, substantial, eternal 
 Oh, seek to have that right spirit implanted, 
 sustained, strengthened, more and more in you, 
 that you may "delight yourself in the Lord," 
 and in the ways of the Lord, and when called 
 10 meet God you may rejoice and be glad in 
 him as your God and Father in Christ Jesus. 
 Nor were these the only effects of Evangelical 
 truths in that blessed disciple of whom I am 
 now speaking; her faith was that which work- 
 eth by love, and it shewed its re.'ity and power 
 in a readiness to every good work. Her good 
 works need not be spoken of by ms in this place, 
 Ihey are known to you all, felt and remembered 
 by you ail: you know that wherever amon^ 
 
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 ii 
 
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 yourselves or your neighbours might be suffering 
 or sorrow, want or woe, there was a kind friend, 
 (and thanks to the giver of all good, her mantle 
 descends, her spirit rests, on others who bear 
 her honoured name,) a friend whose heart was 
 ever touched with compassion, whose hand was 
 ever open to help and relieve. Nor where her 
 labours of love confined to the neighbourhood : 
 by various means, through private individuals 
 and public societies, her bounty flowed forth to 
 our country, our colonies, and to the heather 
 world, contributing to lessen the mass of human 
 misery, and to bring Jews and Gentiles to the 
 knowledge, and love, and service of her 
 
 Saviour. 
 
 Time would fail me to speak of the manifold 
 fruits which clustered richly and beautifully on 
 the faith of this devoted follower of Christ: 
 but I would just advert to her great humility. 
 Year after year she grew in grace, in holiness, 
 in the enjoyment of the power and peace of true 
 religion; and that was accompanied and evi- 
 deii d by growing humility ;— a sure accom- 
 paniment of a real work of grace in the heart ; 
 there was not the " stand by for I am holier 
 than thou," nor "my tower is so strong that 1 
 shall never be moved ;" but a humbling remem- 
 brance of her own continual weakness, arising 
 lj:om an enlightened knowledge of her heart's 
 deceitfulness and proneness to unbelief. As the 
 divine light shewed her more and more of her 
 
suffering 
 id friend, 
 5r mantle 
 ivho bear 
 leart svas 
 land was 
 vhere her 
 ourhood : 
 dividuais 
 I forth lo 
 3 heather 
 of hujn'in 
 lies to the 
 of her 
 
 manifold 
 [liuWx on 
 f Christ : 
 
 humility. 
 I holiness, 
 ce of true 
 
 and evi- 
 re accom- 
 ihe heart ; 
 im holier 
 )ng that 1 
 g remem- 
 ss, arising 
 3r heart's 
 r. As the 
 ore of her 
 
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 God, her Redeemer, and her Sanctifier, it showed 
 her more and more her own sinfulness in the 
 siijht of GoQ, her constant need of the Saviour s 
 Cleansing blood, and of the holy Spirit's renew- 
 ing and upholding power. And so it wiK be 
 with the Christian, as he advances in holiness 
 he will become more and more sensible of his 
 own unholiness. You may have observed m a 
 room that »vhere a beam of sunlight shines with 
 peculiar brightness, little particles of dust, be- 
 fore invisible, are seen floating in the air; the 
 light does not cause them to be there, but shews 
 that they are where all seemed pur . So as the 
 lioht of truth and holiness shines more brightly 
 iifthe heart, evils will be discerned which were 
 not perceived before; and, viewing and examin- 
 uvr himself in that light, the Christian wiL be 
 [Jin lowly on his kneti at the foot of the cross. 
 iSoit v^as with our departed friend: hear her 
 words once more ; * Those who most thoroughly 
 examine their own hearts best know the diffi- 
 culty and extent of belief-the true working, 
 realizing faith in God's word-how prone man 
 is to do otherwise;' otherwise than act out 
 Christian faith in all its various bearings and 
 applications. How u^ceitful is on- heart in this 
 case I And doubtless the following language 
 expressed her own experience, for the great 
 enemy wonld not have left such a servant of 
 God untried : ' Satan uses every means to shake 
 our faith in Christ, knowing it to be our only 
 
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 source of happiness here, and that the stronger 
 our faith is the freer we are from his yoke and 
 influence.' How true is this! the Christian's 
 spiritual life, strength, holiness, happiness, de- 
 pends on his faith in Christ. And she adds, 
 * Let our daily prayer be, " Lord I beheve, hel p 
 thou mine unbelief/" There spake her hu- 
 mility and her faiih, looking in prayer to the 
 Lord as able to help her unbelief, and to keep 
 her from failing. And observe where was her 
 strength, her help, her defence, — only in the 
 Lord. The corruption, deceitfulness, unl)elief 
 of her heart she knew : and who can tell the 
 manifold struggles and conflicts of her protrac- 
 ted Christian warfare'? but she knew with the 
 Psalmist unto whom to lilt up her eyes fur help, 
 and with the Psalmist she found that the Lord 
 himself was her keeper, her helper, her defen- 
 der : she found that "as the hills siood about 
 Jerusalem, even so standeth the Lord round 
 about his people for evermore." But observe 
 how she found this help from the Lord, — In the 
 failhfulj use of appointed mepns, seeking the 
 blessing of the Lord in the ordinances of the 
 Lord as they are observed and ministered in 
 our branch of his Church. For with all her 
 growing in grace and godliness, (and well will 
 it be for us if we grow up in our measure to- 
 wards the fulness of her stature in Christ I) with 
 all her spiritual growth, this eminent Christian 
 ncvor grew a!)ovo the Church of England — as 
 
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 stronger 
 pke and 
 iristian's 
 less, de- 
 le adds, 
 ve, he I p 
 her hu- 
 V to the 
 to keep 
 was her 
 y in ihe 
 unbelief 
 tell the 
 protrac- 
 wiih the 
 fur help, 
 the Lord 
 3r defen- 
 od about 
 'd round 
 t observe 
 , — In the 
 king the 
 5S of the 
 stered in 
 I all her 
 well will 
 jasure to- 
 ist I) with 
 Christian 
 jland — as 
 
 many seem in the imaginations of their minds 
 to suppose respecting themselves. A spirit of 
 true piety kept her in a slate of true humihty, 
 manifestine the feelings expressed by those 
 words of the Psalmist which we have heard 
 this morning, " I was glad when they said unto 
 me, Let us go into the house of the L »rd." You 
 know how regularly, constantly, devoutly, slie 
 used to come here into the house of the Lord ; 
 how when her own siiengih failed she used the 
 help of others' strength to cojue into the house 
 of the Lord ; the weakness of the body presen- 
 ting an emblem of the humility ol the soul 
 leaning on the arm J the Lord Jesus, and 
 resting on the arm of that *' Beloved one coming 
 up from the wilderness" of corrupt nature, and 
 drawing nearer to the heavenly teuiule. And 
 oh that all partook of and manifested the same 
 spirit of humble dependance on the Lord's help, 
 diligently seeking the Lord's blessing in the 
 ordinances of the Lord's house I But, alas, how 
 many neglect these things! how many, permit- 
 ted to enjoy full bodily strength, pervert that 
 strength to other purposes, and use it not in 
 coming regularly ** to the house of the Lord," 
 while others make a measure of weakness which 
 might e resisted, an excuse for slaying away 
 from the house and the ordmances of the Lord ! 
 No wonder if in such cases the soul be left 
 unfed, unstrengthened, to sink, and languish, 
 and die. 
 
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 Beware that it be not so with any of you; 
 seek food, nourishment, strength for your souls 
 where our devout friend sought and found it, 
 in the ordinances of the Lord's house, and that 
 not only from the Sermon, but also from and 
 through the prayers. The preaching of the 
 Word she highly vahied, and so likewise the 
 Prayers; as a humble disciple not only, with 
 Mary, "sitfing at Jesus' feet lo hear his word," 
 but also wiih ihe leper "kneeling before him," 
 to suppiicaie his mercy, power, and blessing, 
 both in ihe holy Sacrament of his Supper, and 
 in the Sunday prayers with the congregation; 
 and thus her lamp was fed and kept brightly 
 burning with oil from the sanctuary. Tne 
 Prayers uf our Church, indeed, she specially 
 loved, not with a blif.d bigoited attachment, but 
 with an an intelligent enlightened regard, know- 
 ing them to be sound, scriptural, spiritual, suited 
 lo the soul's wants, and, when reg Jarly used, 
 profitable to the soul's welfare. In the use of 
 them she found food for her soul, and a great 
 stay to her sinking spirit, midst the increasing 
 infirmities of the flesh; and the testimony of 
 one who was with her to the last is, * That 
 amidst restlessness, and pain, and decay, tbe 
 Church Prayers would arrest her attention, and 
 be fervently joined in.' Those tried and well- 
 known helps in the day-time of life, still minis- 
 tering help at eventide, when the night of death 
 came on. 
 
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 3f you; 
 
 ur souls 
 )und it, 
 ind that 
 om and 
 
 of the 
 j'lse the 
 V, with 
 
 word," 
 e him," 
 blessing, 
 )er, and 
 sgalion ; 
 lightly 
 . The 
 peel ally 
 ent, but 
 , knovv- 
 I, suited 
 y used, 
 5 use of 
 a great 
 reasing 
 lony of 
 
 ' That, 
 lay, tbe 
 un, and 
 id weli- 
 
 minis- 
 { death 
 
 And now "she 'joins in prayer' no longer; 
 such helps and stays she needs no more ; upheld 
 sustained to the end of her course, comforted 
 with abundant peace, and finally strengthened 
 unto complete and glorious victory, her happy 
 spirit hath escaped from " the burden of the 
 flesh," this prison house of clay, gladly escaped 
 "like a bird from the fowler;" the felters are 
 broUen, and the emancipated spirit has taken its 
 flight up to the realms of bliss and blessedness 
 beyond the rt^ach of our present facu ties, whither 
 we can now follow her oniy in thought, in laith, 
 in thanksgiving and praise I Human imagina- 
 tion cannot fully conceive, human tongue can- 
 not describe the blessedness of '' the spirits of 
 ihe just made perfect:" to attempt doing so 
 would be only to mar its glory and dim its 
 splendour. Even the language of inspiration 
 withal! its magnificent grandeur and sublimny 
 fails us here: even the beloved John, who lay 
 in Jesus's bosom, says, " We know not what we 
 shall be:" even the favoured Paul, who was 
 caught up to the third heaven, tells us that the 
 words which he heard in Paradise were "unut- 
 terable words;" the very expression of the joys 
 of the blessed spirits surpasseth the powers of 
 human utterance! Yet it is good to think of 
 that blessedness, though we are lost in utter in- 
 ability to comprehend it: it ii good m believing 
 thought lo muse upon it; to have the mind 
 raised to the contemplation of it : good to know 
 
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 26 
 
 and remember that blessedness unspeakable, 
 unalloyed, uninterrupted, unfailing, unending, 
 eternal, only to be increased and perfected at 
 the resurrection day in the union of the glorified 
 body with the glorified soul, blessed with the 
 entire fulness of blessedness in the presence of 
 God for evermore. Such is the blessedness in 
 which our faith can contemplate, and rejoices to 
 contemplate, our esteemed, revered, beloved and 
 blessed friend. All, be it remembered, through 
 Christ the Saviour ol sinners; — all from the 
 love, the free and undeserved love of God in 
 Christ Jesus. That love it was which, in its 
 eternal counsels, gave the everlasting Son for 
 this blessed one's redemption; that love sought 
 her in her natural state of alienation, awakened 
 her 10 a sense of her sinfulness, led her to a 
 knowledge of the Saviour, and enabled her in 
 faith to lay hi)ld on the hope set before her in 
 Christ, to find pardon and peace through his 
 blood and riiihteousness, and strength and ho- 
 liness in the spirit of life in him. rhat love 
 watched over her, guided, defended, siist liu 31I, 
 upheld, comforted hor in all her vvrjikhcs^es, 
 wants, tli.rjcuiiies, dangers, trials, iribulaiions, 
 ^;uif^'n^gs and sorroAS, ii * led Uev all her jour- 
 ney through, sale to iier journey's end;' and 
 when she reached 'the verge of Jurden,* that 
 Jove was there, like the ark with the Israelites 
 of old, and its everlasting arms clave asunder 
 the dark waters, and bore her spirit through 
 
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 leakable, 
 nending, 
 fected at 
 glorified 
 with the 
 jserice of 
 ;dness in 
 ^joices to 
 3ved and 
 
 through 
 rom the 
 
 God in 
 li, in its 
 
 Son for 
 Q sought 
 wakened 
 
 her to a 
 id her in 
 re her in 
 ough his 
 ) and ho- 
 'hat love 
 iistiijhid, 
 iikin»s^es, 
 lulriiions^ 
 ler jour- 
 id ;* and 
 en,* liiat 
 Israelites 
 
 asunder 
 
 through 
 
 triumphant to join the blessed gone before. 
 And who will follow? who will follow? Oh 
 may I, may you, follow her as she followed the 
 Saviour! follow her in faith and patience here 
 10 the inheritance of the promises heroafter: 
 may w^e receive the truth in the love aiid ihe 
 power of it as she received it; and live the truth 
 in the humble and faithful practice of the truth 
 as she lived — in the Lord. 
 
 Oh come let us follow, in Christ the way, 
 towards the heavenly Canaan! If you have 
 not yet entered on the heavenward path, oh 
 enter nor! away with your carelessness, your 
 worldliness, your ungodliness, whatever it be 
 that is keeping you from the Saviour, cast it 
 fiom you ; and in humble penitence, and prayer, 
 and faith come to Christ, and set yuur (ace 
 heavenward, and follow on to know and serve 
 the Lord. If you have through grace en- 
 tered on tl-at " narrow " but blessed way, press 
 forward, be stimulated, be cheered, encouraged 
 to press forward with renewed vigour and watch- 
 fulness, and earnestness, and hope : the blessed 
 friend who has gone before beckons and calls 
 you on ; she points to the love and power that 
 were all-sufficient for her as all-sufficient for 
 you. Oh, brethren, come ! the same divine un- 
 failing love invites, awaits, encourages us ; the 
 love of the Father bids us come, the love of the 
 Saviour will receive us, the love of the Sanctifier, 
 the Holy Ghost the Comforter, will bless us. 
 
*3* 
 
 Oh then come ! in faith, and prayer, and humble 
 submission flee to his redeeming love, cleive to 
 it, trust to it, follow its heavenward jui icin<y*, le- 
 pend on its unfailing projiiises; and though diffi- 
 cuhies, and daiii^^rs, and tribulations, and trials, 
 and enemies from within and without stand in 
 the way, " who shall separate us from the love 
 of Christ?'' Oh, if we have any thing of the 
 Apostle's faith, as our departed friend had, v/e 
 may lake up the Apostle's triumphant langungo 
 and say, that " neither death, nor life, nor an- 
 gels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things 
 
 height 
 
 nor 
 
 present, nor things to cojne, nor 
 depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to 
 separate us from the love of God which is in 
 Christ Jesus our Lord." And to Hin^ with our 
 lips now, and in our lives day by day, in our 
 words and works, our (aiih and practice, let 
 us humbly ascribe all honour, and praise, and 
 power, and glory, for ever and ever. 
 
 
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