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 is the greatest blessing: And such a help let him seek for her that wants one, let him sigh for her that hath lost one, let him take pleasure in her that enjoys one.

Where there is nothing but a picture of virtue, or a few shadowy qualities that may subsist without any real excellency, death will hide them for ever in the night of despair. The blackness of darkness will close upon the naked and wandering ghost; whilst its loathsomoloathsome [sic] remains are consigned to oblivion and putrefaction in the prison of the grave, with the prospect of a worse doom hereafter. But where there is a living image of truotrue [sic] goodness begun in this state, death will deliver it with safety into the finishing hand of eternity, to bobe [sic] produced with every mark of honour in the open view of heaven; where its now mortal partner, rescued from thothe [sic] dishonours of the dust, and brightened into the graces of eternal youth, shall rejoin it in triumph, to suffer thetho [sic] pangs of separation no more. ! what a crown of joy will it confer on the preacher in that day, if this littlolittle [sic] service shall be rewarded with thothe [sic] reflection of having contributed to thothe [sic] salvation or improvement of any of these young persons whom he now addresses! If ever thine ear was open to my cry, hear me, O Lord! hear me in their behalf. What cannot thy spirit perform, perform by thothe [sic] weakest hand? May that spirit seal them to thothe [sic] day of redemption. At that glorious period, may I meet you all amongst the redeemed of thothe [sic] Lord, happy to see you shining with immortal splendour in thothe [sic] general assembly and church of thothe [sic] first born, transported to think that I shall livolive [sic] with you for overover [sic], and joining in the gratulations of your fellow-angels around the throne of God, when He shall,