most high you are the Children of Adoption and Heaven is yours by Inheritance Col. 2.6,7 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him Root'd and built up in him and stablished in the Faith as ye have been taught abounding therein with Thanksgiving III. III. To Youth 'T was to Young ones Mr. Brand delighted to speak in some respect above all others to these was his Heart most enlarged and his Tongue most fluent and 't is to these my Tongue and Pen are most streightned my consciousness to my self of coming short of him in every thing but most in this of his holy Oratory to Youth that Text almost frights me from saying any thing Job 6.15 How forcible are right words But what doth your arguing avail Not but that I am willing to imitate him and wish that my words might be his Eccho in more then repeating a little of that he hath spoken and longer than for a short time and with more than a vanishing faintness I heartily wish that the Spirit of God would bring things to your remembrance that you might not only thrô strength of Memory but through strength of Grace remember the Counsel he gave you what Questions he put to you upon the Questions of your Catechism and what Answers he so prompted you to make as to make them your own what youthful Sins and Temptations he warned you against and how he prest you to early Piety How he encouraged you from Christ's being the Childrens advocate against their captious Accusers for following him with Hosannahs Christ applying that of the Psalmist to them that Psal 8.2 God by them did still the Enemy and the Avenger i. e. they did more to the Detriment of the Devil's Kingdom than most others I hope you will never forget with what evidence of Reason with what warmth of Affection with what conviction of Conscience he bespoke you for Christ I hope you cannot but remember Here was his Heart here were his hopes here was his sleeping waking Thoughts his sleeping thoughts his last thoughts when he went to sleep his waking thoughts his first thoughts when he wak'd in the Morning here was his plodding praying thoughts his plodding thoughts how he might do good to the next Generation his praying thoughts that God would direct and bless unwearied his Endeavours You know how sollicitous he was to give you suitable Instruction and how desirous that you might drink it in as the Earth the Rain In short I cannot express pray do you endeavour that you may practically conceive how he did as it were travel over you that might be the Comfort of the present and the Blessing of the next Generation But now 2 Kings 2.3,9 God hath taken away your Master from your Head this day you shall never more skip for joy at his approaching presence you shall never more be cheared with his holy Charms you shall never more be provoked by his irresistible Perswasion Methinks you can do no less then cry to God for what Elisha askt of Elijah a double portion of his Spirit not twice so much as he had I know not whether that may be expected on this side Glory but as the first-born in dividing of Inheritances twice so much as any of the Brethren of the Family so twice so much as those who have not had such helps You will be great losers if your gain be not proportionable to your Talents Great are our Expectations from you if you do not bestir your selves to be exemplary for Piety and Vsefulness good and bad will justly blame you the good will mournfully bewail their disappointment they are big with hopes that those who were the chief of his Care and Charge should stand up in his stead and make it their business to do that by many hands which he did alone that the Church may be no loser by his death The bad will with triumph scorn you which is a dreadful way of real blaming of you as degenerate Plants there needed no such cost and care to make you like them How will you bear such dagging upbraidings But in short how will you answer it to my Master You must give another kind of account to him than you did to Mr. Brand the account he called you to was such that what was faulty might be amended and what was defective might be made up But when Christ shall call you to an account you know not how soon that will be the State of Preparation will be over there will be no more no not a Minutes space for Repentance no place of rectifying Mistakes Now now is your time your only time your fleeting perishing expiring time Therefore answer the Convictions of your own Consciences now make Conscience of the performing the Promises you have made to God and him Now do that in a way of Faith and Holiness that Christ may say to you Well done good and faithful Servants enter you into the Joy of your Lord. FINIS Elogies were sent in all the Languages Christ's Epitaph was written if I may so call the Inscription upon his Cross but I 'll only present you with these Vpon Reverend Mr. Brand. T he helpfullest of Ministers and Saints H is Work God blest with Grace or with restraints O n those who felt neither of these effects M uch may they fear their hardning for neglects A ll sorts who knew him best they him most pris'd S trangers alone they were who him despis'd B ehold Report Admire never Disdain R ead'ly to imitate him Heaven to gain A ll worldly Happiness it shrinks before N ever to vy in competition more D eath is at hand to open you the Door t' a Wake eXhort proVokes the Vse o' th' Story DeCeMber the first he Was taken to Glory ◠A. Vpon Reverend Mr. Brand. WHen Primitive Devotion Zeal and Love Fled back to th' Ark like Noah's weary Dove Heav'n left some Sparks behind to let us see What once we were and still we ought to be Some few good Men and this was one to save A sinking World not only just but brave Nobly he stemm'd the Tide vast Seas roll by And dash the Rock but could not mount so high The firm Foundation could not sink or start 'T was deep and sure a meek and humble Heart The noisy Bar the Road to Wealth and Fame He shuns those gawdy Toys below his aim The despis'd Gospel all his Thoughts did claim Nor rashly did the sacred Charge invade He chose it as an Office not a Trade Trembling the weighty Task he undertook But when engag'd did never backward look His Zeal alike well plac'd and well design'd Neither luke-warm nor raging cold nor blind Sworn to no Party in no Interest he But that of common Christianity So sweet so affable his Mind and Face He prov'd Good-nature was no Foe to Grace His Charity like Heav'ns confin'd to none Not even the worst but shar'd his Rain and Sun Tho'