With respect to the other Duties of the Chriftian Life, his Juftice was unfhaken, his Integrity unfufpected. Intereft loft all Power where Duty was concern'd; and he was affaulted by it as a Rock is by the Sea, its Waves are broken, but the Rock stands firm and unmov'd. His Hands were never fully'd with difputable Gain, nor his Heart infected with any kind of Fraud. Slander and Detraction bore no part in his Converfation; and he put the beft Constructions upon Actions they were capable of bearing.

He had a true Chriftian Concern for the Souls and Bodies of Men, and did all that in him lay, to fupply the Wants of Both. He was Zealous for the Church, whereof he was a Member, yet charitable to those who differ'd from him: And his very Enemies Thar'd in his Love, his Compaflion, and his Prayers. It was his daily Study to be useful to the World, and to do Good to Mankind; and he never rejoyced more, than when Providence gave him an Opportunity of comforting any in Diftrefs, or relieving any in Want.

As to his Relations, there cou'd not be a more dutiful obliging Son, a more tender and indulgent Husband, a more faithful and zealous Friend; making his Friends Concerns, in the kindeft manner, his own; fharing in their Sorrows and Joys, and declining no Pains to do them Good in their Fortunes, their Characters and Souls. Our

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Governours cou'd not defire a better Subject, nor our Church a better Member; fubmitting to her Authority, waiting upon her Service, and reverencing her Laws, and adorning all by a Heavenly Example.

And tho he always ftudy'd to be little known, yet fuch Excellencies cou'd not be hid; he was known and justly valu'd; he was honour'd by the Bad, and belov'd by the Good of every Perfwafion. He was regarded by the Great, and confulted by the Wife. A general Love attended him in his Life, and as general Sorrow waited on him to his Grave.

And now from the preceeding Account of Mr. Bonnell's Life and Character, I leave it to all Competent Judges to determine, if he was not a truly Great Man, according to all juft Notions of Greatness, which can never be feparated from Piety and Goodness? And whether many, who are reckon'd Heroes in the Records of Time, don't fall fhort of him, in many Inftances of Substantial Virtue. For wherein did their Greatness principally confift, but in raifing a Duft, and making a Noife in the World? In commanding Armies, and laying Countries waste? In committing Acts of Violence and Cruelty, and doing much Mischief to Mankind? Whereas his Principles led him on to make All rejoyce, but None mourn; to do Men Good in their Valuable Concerns, in their Fortunes, their Bodies, but chiefly in their Souls. He study'd to tranfcribe in his Life,

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all the imitable Perfections of God; and to be truly Great by refembling, as much as poffible, that infinite Fountain of Greatness and Goodness.

And from the fame Account of Mr. Bonnell's Piety, and the feveral Inftances given of bis Virtues, we may fee how glorious Christianity appears, when it duly influences our Lives, and governs our Actions: when it smooths our native Roughness, and foftens us into Love and good Nature, Humility and Meeknefs, Gentleness and Charity; When it enlightens the Head with exalted Thoughts of God, and warms the Heart with his Love and Fear: When it opens our Mouths in Prayers and Praifes, our Hands to the Poor, and our Doors to Strangers: When it plants a firm Faith in the Soul, which is fruitful in producing all Graces and Virtues there: When it arms us with steady Juftice and Truth, unfhaken Constancy, and invincible Patience: When it exalts us above the World; gives us juft Sentiments of its Vanity, and ftrong Defires after unfeen Delights: When it enlarges our Prospect beyond the Grave, and presents the Spiritual World to our View, and fills us with enlivening Hopes of being for ever happy there: When thefe Hopes fo powerfully act upon our Souls, that we can be unconcern'd Spectators of human Greatnefs, and defire filently and calmly to pafs thro' this World: In a word, when Christianity makes us live, converfe and act here, as this great Example R

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of Piety before us did: It is then, that it fhines with an irrefiftable Beauty, and ravishes all who attentively behold it, with its Charms.

May we not likewife learn from what has been faid, of Mr. Bonnell's ftrict Life, and conftant Discharge of every Religious Duty; that Religion is no impoffible Work, when we in earnest set about it: And that the Difficulties of Piety, and Preffures of Temporal Affairs are no reasonable Excufe for neglecting the Duties of it. For here we have an Inftance of One who reconcil'd a Life of Religion and Bufinefs together; who omitted no Office of Civil Life, nor Act of Devotion ; who liv'd in the midft of Temporal Affairs, yet had his Converfation in Heaven. Here we may see what mistaken Notions they have, who think a Wilderness or a Cell the only Scenes of true Devotion: For what is that, but putting our Candle under a Bufhel, and not letting it fhine before Men? Whereas Mr. Bonnell, like Enoch, walked with God amidst the Throng of daily Bufinefs; the private Cares of a Family, and the confcientious Discharge of a weighty Employment. Let this then filence our Complaints of Religion, and turn them all againft our felves, and make us own, that we want not Time to ferve God, but Zeal; and that we have not too much Bufinefs, but too little Grace.

And is it not for the Honour of the Reform'd Religion, that it can give fuch an Inttance (and blefled be God, that many others

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can be given likewife;) of all that strict fevere Piety, which the Romanifts pretend to, as only to be found in their Religious Houses? Sure I am, that were the Lives of their most Celebrated Saints, compar'd with this Gentleman's Character, (If they can be call'd Lives, which are fo full of Fable,) a manifest difference wou'd foon appear. Here all that Strictness in Reality, to which many of them were only Pretenders: But withal, a Piety, that was Rational and Sober; Prudent and Intelligible; Meck and Charitable; Useful to the World, and charming in it felf: A Piety, that was not clouded by Melancholy; nor disturb'd with Superftition, Enthusiasm, and other foolish Paffions: A Piety, that was not Supercilious and Proud; Cruel and Designing: But was Temper'd with the Meekness and Lowlinefs of Chrift; and that Love and Joy, Peace, Long Suffering, Goodnefs and Faith, which are the Genuine Fruits of the Spirit of God.

Muft it not alfo, be matter of great Joy, to the Church of England; to fee all its Principles and Laws, fo truly Tranfcrib'd in the Life of one of its Excellent Sons? Here is all that generous Piety, that unbounded Charity and Love, which are so Remarkable in our Church. Here is Religion in its Native Beauty, and most charming Drefs; as it bears the greatest Resemblance to its Divine Founder; and has moft of God and Chrift, and Heaven in it. And wou'd we behold a Church of England Man, who has R 2

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