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Excerpt from A Sermon, Preached at Bristol, in Rhode Island, July 9th, 1808, at the Funeral of the Hon. William Bradford, Esq.
And now behold them, bathed in tears, affembled around the bed of their dying parent, marking, with extreme anxi ety, and heart-piercing anguifh, his gradual decav. Hie mental powers however, to thein great comfort and mflruc tion, were continued till life expired. Having, by the fpirit of prophecy, informed his fons of what fhould befall their refpet'live poflerities in remote generations, and blelfetl them every one according to his ble?ing, which God had appointed, he charged and direéled them refpeé'ting his bur ial, as you have heard in the words read for our text. He enjoined it upon them to bury him with his fathers, in the land of Canaan, where Abraham and Sarah, Ifaac and Re becca, and his own wife Leah ?ept in their graves. And when jacob had made an end of commanding his fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghoft.
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