A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF THE Reverend 70 HN SCOTT, D.D. Late Rector of S. Giles in the Fields, March 15. 169t By Z. ISHAM, D. D. Rector of S. Botolph Bishopsgate, London. LONDON: Printed for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishops Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1695. A SERMON Ο Ν PHIL. iii. 20, 21. Our converfation is in heaven; from whence allo we look for the Saviour, the Lord Fefus Chrift: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to fubdue all things unto himself. 'W Hen a peftilential Diftemper was raging in Africk, the holy Father S. Cyprian takes occafion from thence to encourage the Chriftians against the fear of Death; and to set before them fuch Confolations as were pro # Amp'ecta los domicilio per mur diem, qui for this Calamity: he affures them that The affignat fing day of their deceafe would reftore them to Paradife, fun; qui nos and to the Kingdom of Heaven; and the concluding fine ereptos, Argument that he useth, is to remind them of the cularibus ex- excellent Company they should meet with in the So reftituit & other world, immediately upon their departure Tego cœlefti. from hence: There is waiting for us above (faith he) &laquess fe folutos paradi De Mortal. us, a great number of our dearest Friends; our Parents, and Brethren, and Children are all defiring our access to them; and being now fecur'd of their own immortality, they are still folicitous for our Salvation; and what a common rejoycing will it be both to them and to have the fight and embraces of one another? And then he goes on to speak of the Apostles, and Prophets, and Martyrs, and Virgins, that we fhall find in the heavenly Manfions: as if nothing could be more defirable than to haften thither with all poffible speed; Quis non ad fuos navigare feftinans, ventum profperum cupidiùs optaret, ut velocitèr caros liceret amplecti? Thus we fee this glorious Martyr difcourfing with fuch earnestness of the next life as if he were then hoifting up his Sails, and lanching forth into the Ocean of Eternity: and he is the more to be hearkned to, because he had receiv'd & Nobis ipfis minimis que (as he tells us) immediate revelation from God, ties revela ; tum eft, ut publicè prædicarem fratres noftros non effe lugendos accerfione Dominicâ de jeculo liberates; nec accipiendas effe bic auras veftes, quando ili ibi indumenta alba jam fumferint i ĺbid. concerning |