"vour his Labours, and that the fame Laws which guard"the Prerogative of the Prince or the Power of the Magi"strate, are the Guardians alfo of the Liberties and Proper“ties of the People. For the reft, even the Wisdom of a "SOLOMON could not join together the Luxury of a Court " and the Felicity of the People. He made Silver and Gold, "indeed, like the Stones in the Streets of Jerufalem; and yet, in the midst of all these Riches, Want and Poverty were the wretched Portion of his Subjects in the remoter "Parts of his Kingdom." From a Funeral Sermon, occafion'd by the Death of a promifing Youth. The Text I PETER i. 24 and 25. All Flesh is as Grafs, and all the Glory of Man as the Flower of Grafs. The Grafs withereth, and the Flower thereof falleth away : But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. "If then all the richest Endowments of the MIND, and "all the most promifing Advantages of the BoDy are thus " frail and uncertain, it follows of Necessity, that 3dly, “Such also must be all those Graces, those name"lefs and inexpreffible Graces, which are the Result of "a hap a a happy Mixture and Combination of both; and which accompany every Motion and Action; the Look and the "filent Deportment of a lovely Body, which is informed " and acted by a beautiful Mind. And even the Virtues of "the Mind itself receive an additional Grace and Power to "charm us, when they fhew themselves in a beautiful Body. "But then, 'tis a juft Remark which fome have made, that "the true Complexion is wont to discover itself more in the “Air than in the Features of the Body. We receive the general Shape and Lineaments of the Body, fuch as the "Author of our Being hath been pleased to mould it; but "the Soul itfelf describes and gives us, in the Air of every Fea"ture, it's own inward Sentiments, Difpofitions, and Habi“tudes: And, as it were, touches over all the Lines anew, "brightens or mellows every Colour, works off every Ble"mish and Deformity, and improves the Whole with new Charms and Graces. "And I believe there are very few who have not made "the Obfervation, that there is, in the very Countenances " of fome Perfons, fuch an honeft Opennefs, fuch a beauti"ful Simplicity, fuch an ingenuous Modefty, and fuch a “visible Sweetness of Temper and Manners, as steals, at first Sight, into the Heart of the Beholder, and prepares us "to give 'em a ready and a pleasing Reception. And that "these "these Endowments have a more irrefiftible Power to pre poffefs and bias the Judgment, in favour of younger Per"fons, who are not wont to disguise their inward Sentiments "and Difpofitions, and to put on the Colours and Imita❝tions of Virtues, which they have not in Reality. "These Advantages then, wherever they are found in any lovely Youth, add indeed to the BEAUTY of the Flower, but not therefore to the PERMANENCY of it." The Vanity of endeavouring to perpetuate our Memory in this World. "In vain the laborious Mafter painted, (as he faid) for ETERNITY: In vain the skilful Statuary infcrib'd his Name, or inwrought with admirable Contrivance his own Image into That of fome Divinity which he carved "in Stone, to tranfmit his Memory to latest Pofterity: r The Colours are long fince faded; the Stone is moul"der'd; or fome rude Hand has defac'd and dash'd it to a "thousand Pieces, without Remorfe or Sense of th' inimi"table Beauty. "In vain the proud Egyptian Tyrants endeavoured to "raise a Monument of their Power and Greatness, which "might a 2 " might laft as long as the Earth itself: The Pile, indeed, ftands; but the Name of the mighty Builder has been, many Ages fince, forgotten: And as for all the rest of "the boafted Wonders of the World, the very Ruins of "them are loft and buried, and no Trace remains to fhew us where Once they stood !" Some of the Moral Parts have been here only quoted from the Sermons, as seeming most suitable to the present Occafion. Mr. SAY died, after a Week's Illness, of a Mortification in the Bowels, on the twelfth Day of April, 1743, and in the 68th Year of his Age. His whole Life was a fair Transcript of the Doctrine he taught, and he left this World with a full Conviction of those important Truths, which he had so long and fo pathetically imprest on the Minds of Others, and with an entire Refignation to the Divine Will, fupported by the Hopes of future Glory. I fhall take Leave of this amiable Man in the Words of BROUKHUSIUS, addreft to the Memory of his learned Friend GRÆVIUS. Among the Modern Latin Poëts, BROUKHUSIUS Was Mr. SAY's Favourite; and the follow ing ing Lines express the Editor's Own Sentiments in the most lively manner : Cum tamen hoc effes, te Nemo modeftius umquam Eft ufus magni dotibus ingenii. Mitis eras, ac pacis amans, animique quietem Gaudia, & ad dulces nablia nata modos! --Such was thy Life; thy Learning fuch confeft; Of |