,transcribed from the #ahcb ,wilkin and 
,fletcher edition by ,david ,price4     
,the ,mourning ,congregation reminded of
 the ,work of their                     
,deceased ,minister4                    
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,a ,funeral ,sermon                     
,,for                          ,,the    
,,rev4 ,,joseph ,,kinghorn1             
,,preached ,,in                         
,,st4  ,,mary',s ,,meeting-,,house1     
,,norwich1                              
,,on                      ,,sunday      
,,afternoon1 ,,september #i,,th1 #ahcb4 
,,by ,,john ,,alexander4                
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8,,the ,,memory ,,of ,,the ,,just ,,is  
,,blessed40                             
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,,norwich3            ,,published ,,by  
,,wilkin ,,and ,,fletcher1 ,,upper      
,,haymarket2 ,,and              ,,by    
,,simpkin ,,and ,,marshall1 ,,and ,g4   

,,wightman1 ,,london4                   
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,,to ,,the ,,bereaved ,,and ,,mourning  
,,church      ,,and ,,congregation      
,,worshipping ,,in ,,st4 ,,mary',s      
,,meeting-,,house1 ,,norwich1           
,,the ,,following ,,sermon ,,is ,,most  
,,affectionately ,,dedicated ,,by       
,,the ,,author4          ,,sermon       
,,ii ,peter1 chap1 i1 verses #ab-ae4    
8,,wherefore ,i ,,will ,,not ,,be       
,,negligent ,,to ,,put ,,you ,,always   
,,in ,,remembrance      ,,of ,,these    
,,things1 ,,though ,,ye ,,know ,,them   
,,and ,,be ,,established ,,in ,,the     
,,present ,,truth4  ,,yea1 ,i ,,think   
,,it ,,meet1 ,,as ,,long ,,as ,i ,,am   
,,in ,,this      ,,tabernacle1 ,,to     
,,stir ,,you ,,up ,,by ,,putting ,,you  
,,in ,,remembrance2 ,,knowing           
,,that ,,shortly ,i ,,must ,,put ,,off  
,,this ,,my ,,tabernacle1 ,,even ,,as   
,,our ,,lord      ,,jesus ,,christ      
,,hath ,,shewed ,,me4  ,,moreover1 ,i   

,,will ,,endeavour ,,that ,,ye ,,may    
,,be ,,able1 ,,after ,,my ,,decease1    
,,to ,,have ,,these ,,things ,,always   
,,in      ,,remembrance40    ,,these    
words1 my brethren1 are impressively    
suitable to the present  solemnity2     
especially when you consider that1 if   
the life and health of  your beloved    
pastor had been prolonged till to-day1  
he would probably  have made them the   
subject of his own discourse4  ,having  
been engaged1  for some time past1 in   
preaching a course of sermons on some of
 the  ,epistles1 he had proceeded in his
 expositions as far as the eighth verse 
of this chapter2 and1 by this time1     
perhaps1 he would have addressed you  on
 the following verses1 including those  
of our text4  ,he would1 in that  case1 
have enforced upon you the duty 8to give
 diligence to make your  calling and    
election sure20 and he would have       
encouraged you to do so by  the promise1
 that 8if ye do these things ye shall   
never fall2 for so an  entrance shall be

 ministered unto you abundantly into the
 everlasting  kingdom of our ,lord and  
,saviour ,jesus ,christ40  ,but whatever
 intentions  or expectations he might   
have formed respecting future sermons1  
they have  all been frustrated by the   
stroke of death4  ,instead of urging    
upon you  the performance of this duty  
by his living voice1 he now admonishes  
you  from the grave4  ,instead of       
animating your minds by this 8exceeding 
great  and precious promise10 he now    
enjoys the fulfilment of it himself1 in 
all  its richness and perpetuity2 and   
instead of attempting1 with mortal lips1
  to describe to you the glories of that
 8everlasting kingdom10 he has had      
ministered unto himself 8an abundant    
entrance0 into its celestial  palaces1  
where all the inhabitants are made      
8kings and priests unto ,god40    ,the  
duty and the promise1 to which ,i have  
referred1 are immediately  followed by  
the words of our text1 which1 on this   
occasion1 we may1  without impropriety1 

adopt as his own language4  ,they were  
indeed  practically the language of his 
life and ministry2 and on this1 or on   
some early sabbath1 had his life been   
spared1 they would have been made  the  
subject of his discourse to you in this 
place of worship4  ,they were  evidently
 the motto which he adopted at the      
commencement of his ministry2  and      
during the whole course of his labours  
among you1 it was his  endeavour that   
the doctrines which he preached might be
 retained in your  remembrance1 not only
 during his lifetime1 but also after his
 decease4  ,and often has he said to    
you1 verbally in his discourses1 and    
virtually  by the conduct which he      
pursued in his life and ministry1 8,i   
will not be  negligent to put you always
 in remembrance of these things1 though 
ye  know them and be established in the 
present truth4  ,yea1 ,i think it meet1 
as long as ,i am in this tabernacle1 to 
stir you up by putting you in           
remembrance2 knowing that shortly ,i    

must put off this my tabernacle1 even   
as our ,lord ,jesus ,christ hath shewed 
me4  ,moreover1 ,i will endeavour that  
ye may be able1 after my decease1 to    
have these things always in             
remembrance40  ,his own remarks on this 
passage would probably have  included   
the language of determination and       
anticipation2 ours alas6  must include  
principally the language of reflection  
and remembrance4  ,let us therefore     
consider the work in which he was       
engaged1 the decease  by which it has   
been terminated1 and the remembrance of 
it which it now  becomes you to cherish4
  ,let us consider1    ,i4  ,,the ,,work
 ,,in ,,which1 ,,as ,a ,,minister ,,of  
,,the ,,gospel1 ,,he ,,was ,,engaged    
,,during  ,,his ,,life4    ,the work of 
a minister of the gospel1 as intimated  
by the apostle1 is to  remind his       
hearers of the various and important    
truths which the gospel  of ,christ     
contains2 for he determines to put them 
8always in remembrance  of these        

things10 and 8to stir them up by putting
 them in remembrance40    ,the          
8,,things0 to which the apostle here    
refers are evidently the various        
doctrines1 and exhortations1 and        
blessings1 which he has recorded in the 
preceding parts of this chapter2 and    
which1 in the third verse1 are          
emphatically called 8all things that    
pertain unto life and godliness40  ,they
 are the 8grace and peace10 which is    
multiplied to all the partakers  of     
8precious faith0--the 8promises10 which 
are 8exceeding great and  precious0--the
 influences by which we become          
8partakers of the divine  nature0--the  
,christian graces1 which include 8faith1
 virtue1 knowledge1  temperance1        
patience1 godliness1 brotherly kindness1
 and charity0--the  admonitions by which
 we are warned lest we lack any of these
 things1 and  exhorted to give all      
diligence to secure them--and the       
motives and  prospects which are        
presented to us1 full of constraining   

and inspiring  energy1 8for if ye do    
these things ye shall never fall2 for so
 an  entrance shall be ministered unto  
you abundantly into the everlasting     
kingdom of our ,lord and ,saviour ,jesus
 ,christ40    ,such1 my brethren1 is the
 beautiful and comprehensive view1 which
 the  apostle gives us1 of the          
doctrines1 and promises1 and influences 
of the  gospel of ,christ1 and such is  
the evidence which he affords that it   
contains 8all things which pertain unto 
life and godliness1 through the         
knowledge of him that hath called us to 
glory and virtue10 and by whose         
precious blood and efficacious grace we 
are redeemed1 and sanctified1 and       
saved4  ,to make these things known1 for
 the conversion and salvation of  the   
guilty and depraved1 is the great work  
of the ,christian preacher1  to whom is 
committed the word of reconciliation1   
and who beseeches men to  be reconciled 
to ,god4  ,and to 8stir up0 the minds of
 those who know these  things already1  

and are established in the present      
truth1 in order that  they may have them
 always in remembrance1 is the peculiar 
work of the  ,christian pastor1 whose   
office it is 8to feed the church of ,god
 which  he has purchased with his own   
blood40    ,in the verses before us1 the
 apostle directs our attention1 however1
 more  particularly to the manner in    
which1 as a minister of the gospel1 he  
endeavoured to discharge this work2 and 
the several statements which he  has    
made are so strikingly descriptive of   
the ministerial labours of your  own    
pastor and teacher1 that ,i proceed at  
once to connect them with the  work in  
which he was engaged4    ,in the first  
place1 he endeavoured to discharge his  
work ,,diligently4  8,i  will not be    
negligent10 says the apostle--and the   
man who undertakes to  watch for the    
souls of others1 and yet neglects them1 
is of all men the  most criminal in his 
conduct now1 and will be of all men the 
most  miserable in his condition        

hereafter1 when their blood is required 
at his  hand4  ,how mercifully clear    
from this awful charge is the character 
and  conduct of your lamented pastor4   
8,i will not be negligent10 was his     
motto and his determination every day of
 his life4  ,it is true that he  was    
endowed with intellectual capacities of 
a superior order1 which  enabled him1   
with considerable facility1 to acquire  
languages and to  collect stores of     
general knowledge2 but he was always    
endeavouring to  accumulate and improve2
 and1 distinguished as he was by natural
 talents1  he was equally distinguished 
by his aversion to negligence1 and by   
his  laborious and conscientious        
diligence4  ,his habits1 in this        
respect1 had  become so matured and     
confirmed1 that he was as diligent in   
the fortieth  year of his ministry1 as  
he was in the first2 and was pursuing1  
with all  his heart1 his inquiries into 
the great subjects connected with the   
gospel ministry1 till he was smitten by 

the stroke of death4  8,in common       
life10 says he1 in one of his printed   
sermons1 8we consider it a shame to  a  
man not to understand his business1 and 
surely it is a shame to a man1  who     
appears as a minister of ,christ1 not to
 be well versed in that  knowledge which
 is intimately connected with the whole 
of his ministerial  labour40            
,influenced by these considerations1 as 
a ,christian he 8gave  diligence to make
 his calling and election sure20 living 
by faith on the  ,son of ,god1 adding to
 his faith every ,christian grace1      
wrestling with ,god  in prayer1 and     
crucifying the flesh with its affections
 and lusts1 lest1  having professed and 
preached the gospel to others1 he       
himself should be  cast away4  ,as a    
student1 he meditated on these things1  
and gave  himself wholly to them2 daily 
searching the ,scriptures in their      
original  languages1 and always having  
before him some object of inquiry and   
pursuit1 which he investigated with a   

degree of devotedness and curiosity     
which remained as diligent and as prying
 in his age1 as it had ever been  in his
 youth4  ,and1 as a minister1 he was    
diligent to know the state of  his      
flock1 and in making such studious      
preparations for the pulpit as  enabled 
him always to feed you with knowledge   
and understanding4  ,it was  this       
diligence1 which gave to all his social 
conversations1 and  especially to all   
his public discourses1 a peculiarly     
instructive  character2 so that you     
might 8know these things1 and become    
established  in the present truth40     
,you1 my beloved friends1 have not been 
accustomed  to receive from your        
minister that which cost him nothing to 
procure4  ,his sermons on the ,lord's   
day1 were not the extemporaneous        
effusions of  the moment1 nor the hasty 
accumulations of the ,saturday evening1 
which  when delivered were 8full of     
sound and fury1 signifying nothing40    
,they  were fraught with instruction1   

because they had been previously        
prepared  with diligence and prayer3 and
 you have listened to many of his       
expositions on the epistles1 and to many
 of his courses of sermons on           
particular subjects1 which shewed that  
he was 8a scribe well instructed  in the
 kingdom of heaven1 who brought forth   
from his treasure things new  and old40 
,these discourses had been previously   
written with great  neatness and care1  
most of them too at considerable length3
 and he once  acknowledged to a friend  
that1 to the constant practice of       
writing his  sermons1 he owed what      
degree of accuracy they might possess   
when  delivered4  ,and it was this      
diligence that doubled his life3 for if 
life  is to be measured1 not merely by  
years1 but by labours and acquirements1 
it will appear that he lived twice the  
sixty-six years of some persons1  and   
thereby enjoyed the fulfilment of the   
promise1 8it shall be well with  thee1  
and thou shalt live long upon the       

earth40    ,secondly1 he endeavoured to 
discharge his work ,,impressively4  ,the
 apostle  says that he repeated the     
things which pertained to life and      
godliness1  in order to 8stir up0 the   
minds of those whom he addressed1 and   
thus to  excite and to persuade them to 
cherish every christian grace1 and to   
perform every christian duty4  ,it is of
 essential importance that the          
doctrines which a minister addresses to 
his hearers1 should be 8the truth  as it
 is in ,jesus0--the truth1 the whole    
truth1 and nothing but the truth4  ,but 
even truth itself may be presented to   
the mind in such a way as make  no      
8stir0 in its energies or emotions4     
,the matter may be good1 but the  manner
 may be so destitute of spirit and life1
 as to render every sermon  an          
illustration of the scripture maxim1    
8the body without the spirit is  dead1  
being alone40  ,this1 you are aware1 my 
brethren1 was not the  character of ,mr4
 ,kinghorn's preaching4  ,it was deeply 

impressive4  ,it was  full of 8thoughts 
that breathe1 and words that burn40  ,it
 exhibited all  the force of his        
intellect1 combined with all the fervour
 of his heart1  so that every sermon    
which he preached resembled 8the sea of 
glass which  was mingled with fire40    
,the impressive and spirit-stirring     
influence  which his preaching was      
calculated to produce1 may however be   
traced to a  variety of circumstances4  
,for instance1 he endeavoured to stir up
 your  minds1 by the plain and practical
 character of his discourses4  ,persons 
who live at a distance1 and who judge of
 ,mr4 ,kinghorn merely by his  literary 
fame1 or by his controversial writings1 
may perhaps suppose that  his sermons   
were learned disquisitions and doubtful 
disputations4  ,this  was by no means   
the case--and though he could appear1   
and on suitable  occasions did appear1  
as the profound scholar1 and the skilful
  reasoner1--yet1 however he may be     
estimated elsewhere1 by those who knew  

him not1 those who have been accustomed 
to associate with him in this  city1 and
 to sit under his ministry1 knew him as 
the plain and practical  preacher of the
 gospel1 whose dress1 and domestic      
economy1 and manners in  the parlour and
 in the pulpit1 were simple and         
unostentatious1 and whose  one object it
 was to win souls to ,jesus ,christ4    
8,it is the duty of the  ,christian     
minister10 and ,i am quoting his own    
words1 8to exert himself1  as far as he 
is able1 that what he says may be       
intelligible and plain2  and that1 from 
the manner in which he delivers it1 it  
may be impressive40  #i  ,he endeavoured
 to stir up your minds also1 by the     
point and force  with which he directed 
his appeals to your consciences and     
hearts2 so  that he met you at every    
turn1 he compassed your path at every   
step1 he  pursued you into every avenue1
 and it seemed impossible to escape from
  his close and searching admonitions4  
,his object was1 not to polish his      

style so as to gain your admiration and 
applause1 7he had no taste for  that71  
but to point every sentence till it     
became like a two-edged sword1  quick   
and powerful1 which pierced to the      
dividing asunder of soul and  body1 and 
discerned the very thoughts and intents 
of your hearts4  ,he  endeavoured also  
to stir up your minds1 by the           
earnestness and  impressiveness of his  
manner4  ,though he was with you during 
a longer  time than ,moses was with the 
,israelites in the wilderness1 yet 8his 
eye  was not dim1 nor was his natural   
force abated40  ,he retained even to old
  age1 much of the vigour and vivacity  
of his youth2 and those who have had    
the opportunity of comparing together   
the earlier and the later periods  of   
his ministry1 are of opinion that the   
sermons of the last few years  were more
 earnestly and impressively delivered1  
even than those which  preceded4  ,he no
 doubt felt increasingly the value of   
the gospel1 as a  source of holiness and

 happiness on earth1 and as revealing   
and bestowing  a life of eternal        
blessedness in heaven2 and therefore1 in
 proclaiming  that gospel to you1 he    
became increasingly earnest and fervent 
both in  his feelings and in his manner4
  ,his heart was anointed with a holy   
unction which diffused its fragrance    
over all his feelings and his words1    
and his eyes often became 8fountains of 
tears0 when he spoke of the hopes  which
 the gospel inspires1 and when he told  
the enemies of the cross that  their end
 was destruction4  ,and when1 on such   
occasions1 his voice broke1  7and it    
sometimes did with tremulous            
impressiveness17 a burst of holy        
eloquence was sure to follow1 which     
thrilled1 and subdued1 and  overwhelmed4
  ,but we must not omit to notice1 that 
he endeavoured to stir  up your minds1  
by the simplicity and piety of his life4
  ,and without  this1 his talents1 his  
literature1 and his eloquence1 would    
have been of  but little avail1 for all 

his public labours would have been      
neutralized  by his practical           
inconsistencies4  ,but we all knew him  
and venerated him  as a man of ,god4    
,the doctrines which he preached in the 
pulpit were  written in his life2 and he
 was not only a preacher of ,christ to  
his own  congregation1 but also 8an     
epistle of ,christ known and read of all
 men40  ,in the course of his religious 
experience1 he had indeed passed through
  paths of darkness1 and had contended  
with doubts and difficulties1 such  as  
but few ,christians are called to       
endure4  ,but1 through the mercy of     
,god1 they served ultimately only to    
strengthen his faith and to confirm  his
 hope--they gave him 8the tongue of the 
learned1 so that he knew how to  speak a
 word in season to him that was         
weary0--and they chastened and  humbled 
his mind under a deep conviction of     
human ignorance and  imperfection1 and  
of the necessity and value of that grace
 without which  we are nothing1 and can 

do nothing4  ,under the influence of    
that  all-sufficient grace1 his own     
character was formed and his own mind   
was  excited1 so that he was enabled to 
stir you up by his holy example1 as     
well as by the simplicity1 and point1   
and impressiveness of his  preaching1   
that you might have these things always 
in your remembrance4    ,thirdly1 ,he   
endeavoured to discharge his work       
,,perseveringly4  ,the apostle          
determined to put them 8always in       
remembrance of these things0--he        
thought it meet to stir up their minds  
as long as he was in this               
tabernacle1--8yea60 says he1 8,i will   
endeavour that ye may be able1 after  my
 decease1 to have these things always in
 remembrance40  ,and this part  of the  
apostle's language is equally           
descriptive as the former of the        
determination and the conduct of our    
departed friend4  ,though his mind  was 
highly speculative1 though his curiosity
 was as young and prying at  sixty as at

 twenty1 and though1 8through desire1 he
 sought and  intermeddled with all      
wisdom10 yet how steady1 and straight   
forward1 and  persevering1 was the      
course which he pursued4  ,whilst many  
by whom he was  surrounded have         
diverged1 some to the right hand1 and   
others to the left1  he kept on the even
 tenor of his way--professing neither to
 be a dreamer  nor an interpreter of    
dreams1 neither a prophet nor a         
prophet's son1 but  a disciple and a    
minister of ,jesus ,christ1 whose duty  
it was to give  himself wholly to the   
great things of the gospel1 and to      
endeavour to  pluck sinners as brands   
from the burning4    ,this1 my brethren1
 is not to be considered as a full      
delineation of your  beloved pastor's   
general character4  ,i have not         
attempted that1 but  merely to give you 
a brief sketch of the work in which he  
was engaged1  and of the manner in which
 he endeavoured to discharge it4  ,still
 it may  be sufficient to remind you of 

the diligence1 the impressiveness1 and  
the perseverance by which you knew him  
to be distinguished1 and of your        
obligations to that power and grace     
which endowed him with these mental  and
 moral qualities1 and which induced and 
enabled him to consecrate them  all to  
your service in the gospel of ,jesus    
,christ4  ,he was from first to  last1 a
 sinner saved by grace4  ,it was ,christ
 alone who inspired his  intellect1 and 
formed his character1 and redeemed his  
soul--and ,i honour  the servant for the
 sake of the ,master who made him what  
he was4  ,for if  such was the character
 of the minister1 what must be the      
character of the  ,master6  ,if such was
 the workmanship1 what must be the skill
 and power of  the architect himself6   
8,not unto us1 ,o ,lord1 but unto thy   
name be the  glory for what thy servants
 are4  ,they have no glory in this      
respect by  reason of the glory that    
excelleth in thee--for of thee1 and     
through thee1  and to thee are all      

things1 and unto thee be glory for      
ever40    ,having thus considered the   
work in which1 as a minister of the     
gospel1 he  was engaged during his life1
 let us now proceed to the second part  
of our  subject1 and consider1    ,,ii4 
,,the ,,decease ,,by ,,which ,,his      
,,work ,,has ,,been ,,terminated4       
,the apostle ,peter1 whilst engaged in  
his labours1 and whilst declaring  the  
manner in which he would endeavour to   
pursue them1 says1 8,knowing  that      
shortly ,i must put off this my         
tabernacle1 even as our ,lord ,jesus    
,christ hath showed me0--and by so      
saying1 he probably refers to the       
prediction which had been addressed to  
him by ,christ1 and which ,john has     
recorded in the last chapter of his     
gospel4  8,verily1 verily1 ,i say unto  
thee1 when thou wast young1 thou        
girdedst thyself and walkedst whither   
thou wouldest2 but when thou shalt be   
old1 thou shalt stretch forth thine     
hands and another shall gird thee1 and  

carry thee whither thou wouldest  not4  
,this spake he1 signifying by what death
 he should glorify ,god40  ,the decease 
which was thus foretold1 and which the  
apostle anticipated in  our text1 was   
soon afterwards realized4  ,the earthly 
house of his  tabernacle was dissolved  
amidst the pains of martyrdom1 and he   
entered a  building of ,god1 a house not
 made with hands1 eternal in the        
heavens4  ,a  similar event has now     
befallen your beloved pastor4  ,the     
putting off his  tabernacle had long    
been the subject of his anticipation2 it
 is now  become the subject of his      
experience4  ,his body has returned to  
the dust  whence it was taken1 and his  
spirit is gone to ,god who gave it4     
,his decease had been mercifully        
preceded by a long life of health and   
labour1 and more than sixty-six years   
had elapsed from his birth to his       
departure4  ,some of the former of those
 years were connected with  occasional  
attacks of sickness1 which sometimes led

 him to expect an  early grave2 so that 
at the time of his ordination1 upwards  
of forty  years ago1 he said to his     
father1 8you are come to ordain a dying 
man0--and subsequently to that period1  
he was once visited with a severe  and  
alarming illness4  ,nor is it improbable
 that these occasional  admonitions of  
his mortality were the means1 under the 
blessing of ,god1  of producing much of 
that seriousness of spirit by which his 
mind was  pervaded4  ,still1 his was a  
life of comparative health1 and when ,i 
visited him during the week in which he 
died1 he told me that1 till then1  he   
had not been kept out of his pulpit by  
illness for a single sabbath1  during a 
period of twenty-eight years4  ,his last
 illness1 as you are  aware1 was        
confined to one short week4  ,it        
commenced on the evening of  ,saturday1 
,august #beth1 and concluded in his     
death1 on the evening of the  ,saturday 
following--yet it is probable that the  
fever which at last  consumed him1 had1 

for some time previously1 been          
accumulating its  exhausting fires4     
,his illness was so short1 and of such a
 nature1 as to  afford scarcely any     
opportunities of conversation with him  
in order to  ascertain the state of his 
mind--indeed those around him little    
expected  that death was so near at     
hand4  ,this1 however1 is a circumstance
 on  which we reflect with no feelings  
of anxiety4  ,his soul1 and all its     
eternal interests1 had long been        
committed to the ,saviour4  ,for him to 
live had been ,christ2 for him to die   
was gain4  ,during nearly twelve  hours 
before his departure1 he was apparently 
inattentive to every  surrounding       
object4  ,his body and his mind seemed  
to be in a state of  perfect peace4     
,not a word was spoken--not a limb      
stirred--not a symptom of  pain         
appeared4  ,the tide of life gently and 
silently ebbed away1 till at  length his
 breathing ceased1 and his countenance  
faded into the paleness  of death1      

,calm and unruffled as a summer's sea1  
,when not a breath of wind flies o'er   
its surface4    ,to himself--8thanks be 
to ,god who gave him the victory0--death
 was preceded  by no terrors1 and       
accompanied by no sting4  ,its          
bitterness was past  before it was      
tasted1 and he felt 8the bliss0 without 
8the pain of  dying40  ,it has indeed   
terminated his labours1 which he pursued
 with deep  and increasing interest and 
delight4  ,it has terminated his        
accustomed  intercourse with earthly    
scenes and earthly friends4  ,it has    
terminated a  life to which he naturally
 and instinctively clung4  ,but it has  
not  terminated the existence of his    
spirit1 nor its communion with ,god1 nor
  its conformity to his image1 nor its  
joy in the light of his countenance4    
,oh1 no6  ,he is absent from the body1  
but he is present with the ,lord4  ,he  
is gone to the spirits of the just made 
perfect4  ,he has renewed his  communion
 with many of the members of his church1

 which death had for a  while suspended4
  ,he is with ,watts1 and ,doddridge1   
and ,fuller1 and ,ward1  and ,hall1 and 
8the general assembly and church of the 
first born0 in  those celestial         
mansions1 where all is perfection1 and  
harmony1 and love4  ,he is in the       
pursuit of knowledge with ampler        
capacities and ampler means  than any he
 possessed on earth4  ,and1 above all1  
he is with  ,christ--surrounded by the  
light and glory of his presence--sitting
 at his  feet to receive knowledge and  
joy from his instructions1 and deriving1
  from the fountain of his mercy1       
degrees of happiness as large as his    
desires1 and as lasting as his          
immortality4    ,but whilst his decease 
has thus been productive of perfect and 
eternal  blessedness to himself1 it has 
been productive of mourning and         
bitterness  to you4  ,the voice which   
has often instructed1 and admonished1   
and  comforted you1 is now silent in the
 dust4  ,the heart which was so full of 

kindness1 and which yearned over you    
with such paternal anxiety and love1    
has ceased its beatings4  ,the eyes     
which beamed upon you1 and wept over    
you with unutterable tenderness1 are    
extinguished in the grave--and you  are 
8sorrowing most of all that you shall   
see his face no more40  ,some of  you   
have lost the companion of your youth1  
with whom1 for more than forty  years1  
you have taken sweet counsel1 and walked
 to the house of ,god in  company4      
,some of you have lost a father in      
,christ1 whose instrumentality  first   
awakened you to a conviction of your    
guilt and danger1 and then  calmed your 
fears and soothed your agitations1 by   
directing you to the  ,lamb of ,god1    
which taketh away the sin of the world4 
,all of you have  lost a wise and       
affectionate friend1 who was able to    
advise you in  difficulty1 to sympathize
 with you in sorrow1 and to comfort you 
with the  consolations with which he was
 comforted of ,god4  ,and1 by this sad  

stroke1 ,i too have lost a father and a 
brother1 with whom1 for more than       
fifteen years1 ,i have associated in    
this city1 and to whose example and     
kindness ,i owe much as a minister of   
,jesus ,christ4  ,we have often         
conversed together freely on many       
subjects1 even on those in which we     
differed in opinion--and all my         
intercourse with him has only served to 
increase my admiration of his talents1  
my veneration of his piety1 and my      
desire to be like him in diligence1 and 
impressiveness1 and perseverance4  ,,may
 ,i ,,die ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,the      
,,righteous6  ,,may ,,my ,,last ,,end   
,,be ,,like ,,his6    ,as it is probably
 expected that ,i should give you a     
brief history of the  deceased1 ,i      
present you with the following sketch   
before ,i proceed to the  concluding    
part of the discourse3--    ,the ,rev4  
,joseph ,kinghorn1 the youngest child of
 ,david and ,elizabeth  ,kinghorn1      
appears to have been born in ,newcastle1

 ,northumberland1 on the  #agth         
,january1 #agff4  ,his father was1 from 
about four years after the  birth of his
 son1 pastor of a small congregation of 
baptists in ,bishop  ,burton1 in        
,yorkshire1 where he remained till he   
and his venerable partner  came to      
reside with him in this city4  ,their   
son was in early life  engaged in the   
employ of ,messrs4 ,walker1 ,fishwick1  
and ,co41 of ,newcastle1  manufacturers 
of white lead2 and whilst there he      
became a member of the  baptist church4 
,his qualifications for public          
usefulness were soon  recognized by his 
brethren1 with whose concurrence he was 
sent1 at the  joint expense of ,mr4     
,ward and ,mr4 ,fishwick1 to enter on a 
course of study  in the ,bristol        
,academy1 under the care of ,dr4 ,caleb 
,evans1 the divinity  tutor1 and of the 
,rev4 ,mr4 ,newton1 the classical tutor1
 who was succeeded  in that office by   
the ,rev4 ,robert ,hall1 a short time   
before ,mr4 ,kinghorn  left the academy4

    ,at the close of his studies ,mr4   
,kinghorn visited ,fairford1 in         
,gloucestershire1 and preached there for
 some time as a candidate for the       
pastoral office1 but was prevented from 
settling among them by an  unwarrantable
 suspicion1 entertained by some of the  
people1 respecting  his orthodoxy1 which
 appears to have harassed his mind and  
injured his  health4  ,at that time his 
friend1 ,mr4 ,fishwick1 happened to be  
in ,norwich  on business2 and1 having   
been informed that the church here was  
destitute  of a pastor1 he warmly       
recommended his young friend as a       
candidate2 in  consequence of which1 an 
invitation was sent from the church to  
,mr4  ,kinghorn1 requesting his services
 for a few weeks2 and he arrived in     
,norwich on the #bhth ,march1 #aghi1 and
 preached his first sermon here on  the 
following ,lord's day1 ,march #bith1    
from ,romans v4 #aj4--8;,for if when we 
were enemies we were reconciled to ,god 
by the death of his ,son1 much  more1   

being reconciled1 we shall be saved by  
his life40    ,mr4 ,kinghorn's immediate
 predecessor in this church1 was the    
,rev4 ,rees  ,david1 who served it with 
fidelity and usefulness for eleven      
years1 when  he was cut off by a fever1 
in the ,february of #aghh4  ,the high   
degree of  regard which ,mr4 ,david     
enjoyed1 from the integrity of his      
character1 his  zeal for the cause of   
religion and of civil and religious     
liberty1 and  from the energy and power 
of his preaching1 rendered it no small  
difficulty to obtain a successor        
acceptable to the destitute church2 and 
though a minister of considerable       
talents had been supplying the vacant   
pulpit for some months after ,mr4       
,david's death1 yet opinions respecting 
him were so much divided1 as to bring   
the congregation into a very            
uncomfortable state4  ,it was at this   
crisis that ,mr4 ,kinghorn arrived2  and
 though much enfeebled and distressed   
when he came1 yet in the society  of the

 late ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,william ,wilkin1  
he found the consolations of a  sincere 
and delicate friendship1 and by frequent
 visits to their country  residence1 he 
soon regained the tone both of his body 
and mind4  ,in after  life he testified 
his sense of obligation to their        
kindness1 by accepting  the charge of   
their young and orphan children1 over   
whom1 as you well  know1 he watched with
 affectionate and parental care4        
,after having preached in ,norwich for  
several sabbaths1 he received an        
invitation from the church to become its
 pastor1 which he accepted in  ,january1
 #agij4  ,on the #bjth of the following 
,may1 he was ordained to the  pastoral  
office2 on which occasion the ,rev4     
,zenas ,trivett commenced the  service2 
his father1 the ,rev4 ,david ,kinghorn1 
gave the charge1 from #a  ,timothy1 iv1 
#ac4--8;,give attendance to reading1 to 
exhortation1 to  doctrine20 and the     
,rev4 ,mr4 ,richards1 of ,lynn1 preached
 the sermon to the  church and          

congregation4    ,under his ministry1   
the congregation having increased in    
numbers and  respectability1 it was     
determined to pull down the old meeting 
house2 and  sums of money1 sufficient   
for the erection of a new place1 having 
been  liberally subscribed by the       
people1 the present place of worship was
  erected1 and opened for divine        
worship1 on ,thursday1 ,june the #beth1 
#ahab2  on which interesting occasion1  
,mr4 ,kinghorn preached in the morning  
from  ,psalm xc4 #ag2 and the ,rev4     
,william ,hull1 in the evening1 from    
,psalm xcv1  #a1 #b1 #c4    ,in the     
later period of his life1 he had the    
happiness of being again  united to his 
aged parents1 and of comforting their   
declining years2 for  when circumstances
 rendered it necessary for his father to
 resign his  pastoral charge1 the       
venerable pilgrims came to this city1 as
 ,jacob  journeyed to ,egypt1 to see the
 prosperity of that son from whom they  
had  been separated for so many years4  

,you know how tenderly he fulfilled     
towards them every filial duty1 how     
anxiously he watched over them1 and  how
 carefully he supplied their            
necessities4  ,and when he had closed   
their eyes1 and had given directions    
concerning their remains1 you well      
remember how he addressed to you the    
affecting declaration1 8,i am now       
loosened from every earthly tie1 and    
have no other care but you4  ,henceforth
 you1 the members of this church1 shall 
be my brother  and my sister1 my father 
and my mother40    ,having given you    
this brief detail1 we now proceed to    
consider1    ,,iii4  ,,the ,,remembrance
 ,,of ,,his ,,work ,,which ,,it ,,now   
,,behoves ,,you ,,to ,,cherish4    ,your
 own minister's anxiety and endeavour   
during his life1 like that of  the      
apostle's1 was1 that after his decease1 
you might have these things  always in  
your remembrance4  ,still1 it is not    
merely an intellectual  remembrance of  
these things which it becomes you to    

cherish4  ,you may  remember every text 
from which he preached1 and every sermon
 he has  delivered1 and yet neither be  
sanctified nor saved by their influence4
  ,nor can you be saved by keeping in   
memory the things which you have  heard1
 unless you remember them with faith1   
and experience1 and practice2  8for if  
ye know these things happy are ye if ye 
do them40  ,permit me1  therefore1      
earnestly and affectionately to address 
to you the following  exhortations4     
,in the first place1 you should cherish 
the remembrance of these things by      
,,believing the gospel which he         
preached4  ,there are some of you1 my   
beloved friends1 whose minds ,i fear    
still need to be stirred up to the      
remembrance of the things that belong to
 your peace4  ,the endeavours of  your  
departed minister1 diligent1 and        
impressive1 and persevering1 as  they   
were1 have failed to awaken in your     
hearts the feelings of penitence  and   
faith4  ,some of you have1 perhaps1 for 

many years1 sat under the  sound of that
 gospel which during every year has been
 to you 8the savour  of death unto      
death40  ,throughout the whole course of
 his ministry you  are the persons who  
occasioned his keenest anxieties and his
 bitterest  disappointments2 for so far 
as you were concerned he seemed to      
labour in  vain1 and to spend his       
strength for nought4  ,yet he warned1   
and exhorted1  and admonished you to the
 last2 and it should be to you1 day and 
night1  an awful and awakening          
remembrance1 that the very last text    
from which he  preached1 #ba was the    
subject of a sermon emphatically        
addressed to you2  for its language was1
 8,,notwithstanding ,i ,,have ,,spoken  
,,unto ,,you1 ,,rising  ,,early ,,and   
,,speaking1 ,,yet ,,ye ,,would ,,not    
,,hearken ,,unto ,,me40  ,and these     
words1  the last which he addressed to  
you on earth1 were1 perhaps1 the first  
which he repeated concerning you at the 
bar of ,god4  ,ah6 my brethren1  were it

 possible for any thought to disturb his
 peaceful breast in  heaven1 it would be
 the recollection of the state of guilt 
and  impenitence in which he has left   
you on earth--it would be the thought   
that now perhaps you and he are         
separated for ever4  ,and shall this be 
the case8  ,can any of you--can you1 my 
dear young friends1 bear the  thought   
that you may have bidden an eternal     
farewell to your faithful and  paternal 
minister8  ,will you1 who have          
procrastinated till his death1 not  have
 these things in your remembrance now1  
after his decease8  ,when there  is joy 
in heaven over one sinner that          
repenteth1 shall he never be told  that 
angels are rejoicing over you8  ,and    
will you not from this time1 and  from  
the grave of your deceased instructor   
cry unto ,god1 8,my ,father1 thou  art  
the guide of my youth80  ,my dear       
brethren1 whether you be young or  old1 
8behold now is the accepted time1 behold
 now is the day of  salvation40         

,to-morrow may be too late for ever2 and
 if you delay1 the  remembrance of these
 things may be stirred up in your minds 
by the worm  that dieth not1 and by the 
fire that never shall be quenched4  ,but
 if you  wish to have these things in   
your remembrance now1 go1 by faith and  
prayer1 to that ,redeemer1 whose gospel 
and whose minister you have  hitherto   
neglected4  ,go to him with all the     
guilt and condemnation which  that      
neglect has contracted4  ,go1 as the    
prodigal went1 with the feeling  of     
penitence in your heart1 and the        
confession of penitence on your         
lip--and whilst you are yet afar off1 he
 will behold you with compassion1  and  
run1 and fall on your neck1 and embrace 
you1 and exclaim1 8,this my  son was    
dead and is alive again1 he was lost and
 is found60    ,secondly1 ,you should   
cherish the remembrance of these things 
by ,,adhering  to the gospel which he   
preached4  ,for as it respects you who  
have1  through grace1 believed the      

gospel which he preached1 his endeavour 
was  that1 after his decease1 you might 
have these things ,,always in           
remembrance--and the ,lord grant that   
his joy concerning you may be           
fulfilled4  ,there are1 ,i doubt not1   
many persons1 once blessed with the     
ministry of our beloved friend on earth1
 who are now his companions in  the     
skies2 and of whom he has said already1 
8,behold here am ,i1 and the  children  
thou hast given me40  ,and there are1 ,i
 trust1 many now present  who will be   
8his hope1 and his joy1 and his crown of
 rejoicing in the  presence of our ,lord
 ,jesus ,christ at his coming40  ,you1  
my dear brethren  in the ,lord1 can no  
longer enjoy the living instructions of 
your revered  pastor1 but it becomes    
you1 as members of his church1 to have  
the things  which he once taught you    
always in remembrance4  ,adhere         
steadfastly and  perseveringly to the   
doctrines1 and to the spirit1 and to the
 practice of  the gospel of ,jesus      

,christ1 8by pureness1 by knowledge1 by 
long-suffering1 by kindness1 by the     
,holy ,ghost1 by love unfeigned40       
,imitate your deceased minister's       
excellencies1 and avoid his             
imperfections4  ,endeavour to equal     
him--endeavour to surpass him in all    
that is holy1 and just1 and good4       
,above all1 let the same mind be in you 
which was in ,christ ,jesus2 and repose1
 with unshaken confidence1 on that      
grace which is sufficient for you1 and  
on that strength which is made  perfect 
in your weakness4  ,you are now in      
circumstances such as require  all the  
sympathy and consolation that the gospel
 can supply4  ,your  minister is a      
corpse--the house of ,god in which he   
has been accustomed to  meet you is     
become his sepulchre--and all your      
future meetings will be  held around his
 grave4  ,may the ,god of mercy be your 
comforter4  ,may all  the grace and     
tenderness which fills and flows from   
,,his heart who wept at  the grave of   

,lazarus1 flow into your own4  ,and when
 you begin to look out  for a successor 
to your deceased pastor1 may you be     
directed to one who  shall appear among 
you clothed with his mantle1 and blessed
 with a double  portion of his spirit4  
,in all your future intercourse with    
each other1  and in all your social     
meetings for devotion or for the        
business of the  church1 ,i beseech you1
 by the mercies of ,god1 to adhere      
always to the  gospel of ,christ4       
,never lose the praise which you have in
 other churches  of the saints1 by      
destroying peace among yourselves4      
,,let ,,brotherly ,,love  ,,continue4   
,let each individual among you          
determine1 for the sake of  ,christ and 
of his people1 to cherish it in his own 
heart and to exhibit  it in his own     
conduct1 and then its fragrance will    
perfume and bless the  church4  8,it    
will be like the precious ointment on   
the head of ,aaron1  which went down to 
the skirts of his garments2 and like the

 dew which  descended on the mountains  
of ,zion1 where the ,lord commanded the 
blessing1 even life for evermore40      
8,jehovah bless you and keep you4       
,jehovah cause his face to shine upon   
you1 and be gracious unto you4  ,jehovah
 lift upon you the light of his         
countenance1 and give you peace40       
,finally1 ,you should cherish the       
remembrance of these things by          
,,circulating the gospel which he       
preached4  ,this also1 my brethren1 was 
one of the things which your minister   
endeavoured that you should have in     
your remembrance after his decease--for 
the ready and efficient assistance      
which he gave to many of the religious  
institutions in this city--the  efforts 
which he made to extend the gospel in   
the county--and the  laborious zeal with
 which he endeavoured to promote the    
interests of the  ,baptist ,missionary  
,society--all shew how desirous he was  
to advance the  kingdom of ,christ in   
the world4  ,go you1 my brethren1 and do

 likewise4  ,never become weary of      
labouring in the cause of ,christ4  ,and
 remember1  for your encouragement1 that
 though the priests are not suffered to 
continue by reason of death1 though     
ministers of the gospel are as mortal   
as their hearers1 and though all flesh  
is grass1 there is1 nevertheless1  one  
thing stable and eternal in the midst of
 this moving and this dying  world--and 
this one thing is1 8the word of the     
,lord1 that endureth for  ever40  ,the  
church lives1 though the pastor dies4   
,the church must  increase1 though he   
has decreased4  ,one generation shall   
pass away and  another generation shall 
succeed1 8till time and nature dies40   
,but  during all this mortality and     
change1 8,jesus ,christ is the same     
yesterday1 to-day1 and for ever10 and   
his word shall have free course and  be 
glorified1 till it cover and crown the  
world1 and till the kingdoms of  this   
world shall become the kingdoms of our  
,god and of his ,christ1 and he  shall  

reign for ever and ever4  8,then cometh 
the end1 when he shall  deliver up the  
kingdom to ,god1 even the ,father2 when 
he shall have put  down all rule1 and   
authority1 and power4  ,for he must     
reign till he has  put all enemies under
 his feet4  ,the last enemy that shall  
be destroyed  is death4  ,thanks be to  
,god who giveth us the victory through  
our ,lord  ,jesus ,christ6  ,,therefore1
 ,,my ,,beloved ,,brethren1 ,,be ,,ye   
,,steadfast1  ,,unmoveable1 ,,always    
,,abounding ,,in ,,the ,,work ,,of ,,the
 ,,lord1 ,,forasmuch ,,as ,,ye  ,,know  
,,that ,,your ,,labour ,,is ,,not ,,in  
,,vain ,,in ,,the ,,lord40              
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,,to ,,be ,,published ,,in              
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,,footnotes4      #i  ,see 8,two        
,sermons addressed principally to the   
students of the two  ,baptist ,academies
 at ,stepney and ,bristol10 entitled    
8,advice and  ,encouragement to young   
,ministers20 and 8,the substance of a   
,sermon  preached at ,bradford10        
entitled1 8,practical ,cautions to      
,students and  young ,ministers40  ,all 
of which are well worthy the attentive  
perusal of  students and of young       
ministers of every denomination4    #ba 
,jeremiah1 xxxv1 #ad4