Heaven the Refidence of the Saints. A SERMON Occafioned by the fudden and much lamented DEATH of the Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, A.M. Thursday Lecture at BOSTON, in America, By EBENEZER PEMBERTON, D.D. To which is added, An ELEGIAC POEM on his DEATH, By PHIL LIS, A NEGRO GIRL, of Seventeen Years of Age, BOSTON, Printed: LONDON, Reprinted, And Sold at the CHAPEL in Tottenham-Court Road, * And at the TABERNACLE near Moorfields. M.DCC.LXXI. [ Price SIX PENCE. ] I ST PETER I. 4 To an Inheritance-referved in Heaven for you. THE Defire of Happiness is common to all intelligent Beings: It is fo interwoven in the Conftitution of human Nature, that it can never be separated from it: It animates the Prince upon the Throne, and the Peafant in his humble Cottage: It springs up in our Breasts in the early Dawn of Life, it attends us in our maturer Age, it does not defert us at the Gates of Death, but accompanies us through every Period of our Exiftence. We all defire to be happy-But the greatest part of Mankind know not where this Bleffing is to be obtained. They erect their Altars to imaginary Idols, and feek Satisfaction in fenfual Indulgencies, which inevitably disappoint their Expectations. The Complaints of all Ages are fufficient to convince us, that this Earth is not the Place where Happiness is to be found. Its brightest Days are fhaded with melancholly Clouds: Its sweetest enjoyments are infected with many bitter Ingredients: Its highest Pleasures afford only a transient Flafh of Delight, and frequently end in Satiety and Difguft. |