Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…

For her Piety, it appeared in her Devotions, public and private: Public, in her constant repair to Gods House, and the public worship and solemn Service there celebrated, when and while health & strength permitted. Private, (and howsoever there is a ^hpromise of a more ample blessing upon the public means; yet peoples private devotions, ⁱwherein fewest eyes are upon them, and which none are conscious unto but God and their own souls, are a ^ksurer seal and evidence of their, inceritie: ^lsuch are persons indeed, as in private they are) as by her constant standing times of prayer, four several times each week-day, and six on the Lords day: a course, which (as I am informed) she had constantly for many years continued: so by her diligent reading, ⟨p. 28⟩in the first place, of Gods Oracles, having within some term of years next before her decease, read the whole New Testament twelve times over; and that, not slightly and superficially, but so, as ^mto observe somewhat that might be useful unto her, either out of or upon every Chapter she read; that which by a multitude of Notes left behind her in writing, may evidently appear: as also by her frequent perusal, in the next place, of the pious works of religious Writers, that might further and forward her in the good ways of God. Among which, she professed her self to be much affected with some, because they seemed to her to write, as she said, not to show their learning, but out of their own sense and feeling; of that, no doubt, that she felt also together with them, and which caused her therefore the rather so much to affect them.

For her Pietie, it appeared in her Devotions, publike and private: Publike, in her constant repaire to Gods House, and the publike worship and solemne Service there celebrated, when and while health & strength permitted. Private, (and howsoever there is a ^h