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important article of preparation was yet behind (viz) to hear t. whole of this duty, obligations & warnings enforced upon them in one speech, from t dying lips of their greatest earthly Benefactor. Not that t. truth he should not deliver were sent or possessed in themselves more virtue than before, but t. circumstance of their coming fr a friend who had done with earthly things, who stood on t brink of eternity & knew it, who could have no other designs, but their unclear good, & would not deserve them: To hear this speech, therefore in this sense was t. most important of all their preparations, as it contained the sum