A25248:91
Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at…
Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at the funeral of the honourable lady, the Lady Margaret Houghton / by Isaac Ambrose.
London: printed for Rowland Reynolds, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Ordinarily she spent the rest of the day in her works of the needle, with her maids about her: Or if other things of Housewifery had interposed, she was never so transported with honour, as to scorn her duty in the way of a particular calling. Well she had learnt that idleness was the rust and canker of the soul, the Devils cushion, pillow, chief reposal, his very tide-time of Temptation; and therefore with conscience and faithfulness she was diligent in her particular, as well as general, calling. Now and then she would have visited poor cottages, and relieved their necessities; but ever was she courteous to the Neighbourhood, and careful in the affairs of her own House. Take all together, and for ought I know she might be a pattern to most of the Ladies in our Nation, or at least as a bright Morning-star amongst other stars.
2. Ordinarily she spent the rest of the day in her works of the needle, with her maids about her: Or if other things of Houswifery had interposed, she was never so transported with honour, as to scorn her duty in the way of a particular calling. Well she had learnt that idleness was the rust and canker of the soul, the Devils cushion, pillow, chief reposal, his very tide-time of Temptation; and therefore with conscience and faithfulness she was diligent in her particular, as well as general, calling. Now and then she would have visited poor cottages, and relieved their necessities; but ever was she courteous to the Neighbourhood, and careful in the affairs of her own House. Take all together, and for ought I know she might be a pattern to most of the Ladies in our Nation, or at least as a bright Morning-star amongst other stars.
2. She redeemed her time in death, or near her death; now indeed she was taken off her particular calling, and therefore this time she spent (as she could for sickness) in the exercise of spiritual duties, and spiritual graces. For duties she was much in them, of which we speak before; and for graces she shined, and was most eminent in such as these. As—