The remains of this great man were deposited in Bunhill-fields burial-ground, London; and to give a final testimony to his affection and liberality, his pall was supported by six ministers, two of the presbyterian, two of the congregational, and two of the antipoedo-baptist denomination, Dr. Samuel Chandler delivered an oration at the grave, and Dr. Jennings preached his funeral sermon to the church of which Dr. Watts had been pastor, from Hebrews xi. 4. “By it he being dead yet speaketh.” Several other eminent men gave similar testimonies of respect to his memory. But while his various excellencies procured him these honours, he in his life time, was concerned to prevent whatever might be considered as inconsistent with the humility of his character. He gave directions to have only a stone erected over the place of his interment, with this humble inscription: “ISAAC WATTS, D. D. Pastor of a Church of Christ, in London, successor to the Rev. Mr. Joseph Caryl, Dr. John Owen, Mr. David Clarkson, and Dr. Isaac Chauncy; after fifty years of feeble labours in the gospel, interrupted by four years of tiresome sickness, was at last dismissed to his rest. “In uno Jesu omnia. “2 Cor. v. 8.—Absent from the body, and present with the Lord. “Col. iii. 4.—When Christ who is my life shall appear, then shall I also appear with him in glory.” A handsome tomb, bearing this inscription, with the time of his death, was accordingly erected at the joint expence of Sir John Hartopp, once his pupil, and Lady Abney, in whose house he so long and so happily resided. Footnote 1: Reynolds. Footnote 2: Seed. Footnote 3: Howe. Footnote 4: Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Footnote 5: Knox. Footnote 6: Goldsmith. Footnote 7: Discourses on Humility. Footnote 8: Bacon. Footnote 9: What he says in one of his sermons shews to what the corporeal afflictions of his later days may be ascribed: Midnight studies are prejudicial to nature, and painful experience calls me to repent of the faults of my younger years, and there are many before me have had the same call to repentance. Wearing out the lightsome hours in sleep is an unnatural waste of sun-beams. There is no light so friendly to animal nature as that of the sun. Serm. xx. Footnote 10: Letters published by Dr. Gibbons. Footnote 11: Milton. Footnote 12: Robinson. Footnote 13: Jennings. DEDICATION TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF SERMONS. _To the Church of Christ assembling in Berry-street, London._ Christian Friends, dearly beloved in our Lord;