that we are merely strangers and travellers in it, as all our
fathers were. It is therefore to be considered as a foreign
country; in which our poverty and wants, and the insufficient
supplies of them, were designed to turn our views to that higher and
better state we are heirs to: a state where will be no follies to
be overlooked, no miseries to be pitied, no wants to be relieved;
where the affection we have been now treating of will happily be
lost, as there will be no objects to exercise it upon: for God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any
more pain; for the former things are passed away.



SERMON VII.
UPON THE CHARACTER OF BALAAM.
PREACHED THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER.
NUMBERS xxiii. 10.



Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like
his.

These words, taken alone, and without respect to him who spoke them,
lead our thoughts immediately to the different ends of good and bad
men. For though the comparison is not expressed, yet it is
manifestly implied; as is also the preference of one of these
characters to the other in that last circumstance, death. And,
since dying the death of the righteous or of the wicked necessarily