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An Introduction to the Sermon.
THe Directory,* 1.1 set forth by the Re∣verent Synod, gives Ministers leave at Funeralls, to put the living in remembrance of their dutie. And I will doe no more. And I hope that will give no offence to any good Christian; since that, is not, to strow complementall flo∣wers upon the hearse of the dead, but will rather prove supplementall ornaments to the living. I therefore being partly acquainted with our deceased Sisters life, and death, and requested therefore to this office by her friends, who seing her lamp, went not out in darknesse, was loth that her earthen vessell should be interred without some light, which might direct others, how to walk from the womb, to the tomb. Leave therefore being first obtained of your Minister, and Officers of this Church, I have thought good to present you, as a subject of your contem∣plation with such a peice of scripture, as may both answer to our dead Sister, the patterne, and to us, the living portrai∣ctures. Which you shall find delineated by Saint Paul himselfe, Philip. 1.21.