SHE WAS
1. A diligent attender upon Gospel Ordinances, delighting much in the House of God, and preferring the Word of God above her appointed food. A constant Writer of Sermons, and wrote them in her Heart as well as in her Book, and her life was an exact Commentary upon the Sermons she heard. She hath a large Book in Folio written with her own hand, wherein under several Heads of Divinity, she hath registered the Observations of her reading both out of the Scriptures (which were her delight) and out of the Writings of our best Divines, and out of her own experiences.
2. Very conscientious in observing the Lords Day. Her custom was after Sermon both in the Morning, and Afternoon to retire into her Chamber, and to call before her her maid-servants, and such boys as served in the House, to give account what they had heard; helping their memories wherein they failed, clearing up the sense of what was delivered, wherein it might seem obscure unto them, exhorting and pressing them to be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, concluding all in Prayer with them.
3. Very careful in receiving the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ every Month, if she were not hindered by indispensable necessity. And in her preparation thereunto she was most diligent. For help herein she had made a Collection of the best Rules and Directions she could get about that Subject.
4. Taught of God not only notionally, but experimentally to live by Faith. For she met with many trials in her outward estate, both when a Wife, and when a Widow. But by Faith in Jesus Christ, she was more than Conqueror over them all.
⟨p. 29⟩5. Frequent and constant in her private Devotions, both in praying, reading and meditating at set hours.
6. A fixed Star in the Firmament of Gods Church, not like a little Child tossed to and fro with every Wind of doctrine, but rooted, built up, and stablished in the Faith, and in the Orthodox Truths of Christian Religion.
7. Abundantly charitable to all in want and necessity, especially to such who feared God, and had his Image upon them. Yea she was ready (as the Apostle saith) even above her ability, to distribute to the Necessities of the Saints.
SHE WAS
1. A diligent attender upon Gospel Ordinances, delighting much in the House of God, and preferring the Word of God above her appointed food. A constant Writer of Sermons, and wrote them in her Heart as well as in her Book, and her life was an exact Commentary upon the Sermons she heard. She hath a large Book in Folio written with her own hand, wherein under several Heads of Divinity, she hath registred the Observations of her reading both out of the Scriptures (which were her delight) and out of the Writings of our best Divines, and out of her own experiences.
2. Very conscientious in observing the Lords Day. Her custom was after Sermon both in the Morning, and Afternoon to retire into her Chamber, and to call before her her maid-servants, and such boyes as served in the House, to give account what they had heard; helping their memories wherein they failed, clearing up the sense of what was delivered, wherein it might seem obscure unto them, exhorting and pressing them to be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, concluding all in Prayer with them.
3. Very careful in receiving the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ every Moneth, if she were not hindred by indispensable necessity. And in her preparation thereunto she was most diligent. For help herein she had made a Collection of the best Rules and Directions she could get about that Subject.
4. Taught of God not onely notionally, but experimentally to live by Faith. For she met with many trials in her outward estate, both when a Wife, and when a Widdow. But by Faith in Jesus Christ, she was more than Conquerour over them all.
⟨p. 29⟩5. Frequent and constant in her private Devotions, both in praying, reading and meditating at set hours.
6. A fixed Star in the Firmament of Gods Church, not like a little Child tossed to and fro with every Wind of doctrine, but rooted, built up, and stablished in the Faith, and in the Orthodox Truths of Christian Religion.
7. Abundantly charitable to all in want and necessity, especially to such who feared God, and had his Image upon them. Yea she was ready (as the Apostle saith) even above her ability, to distribute to the Necessities of the Saints.
