The excellent woman a sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott ...…

IT is no small privilege to be born of godly parents; The blessings of the Covenant run most kindly in the channel of the Covenant; ⟨image 6⟩there is more to be presumed of such children then others; not only as they are under the blessing of their parents prayers, (Bathsheba called Solomon the son of her Vows; and Monica St. Augustine the child of her prayers and tears;) but also as they themselves have a greater holdfast upon God, by virtue of his holy Covenant; Lord, I am thy servant, ¹and the son of thy handmaid, was Davids plea.

IT is no small priviledge to be born of godly parents; The blessings of the Covenant run most kindly in the channell of the Covenant; ⟨image 6⟩there is more to be presumed of such children then others; not only as they are under the blessing of their parents prayers, (Bathsheba called Solomon the sonne of her Vowes; and Monica St. Augustine the childe of her prayers and tears;) but also as they themselves have a greater holdfast upon God, by vertue of his holy Covenant; Lord, I am thy servant, ¹and the sonne of thy handmaid, was Davids plea.

1. 1Ps. 116.16.

What a right you may claim to Gods family by your mother, the just ⟨image 6⟩character here delivered of her, will sufficiently evidence. Her example, Counsels, prayers, are a better portion then your Fathers inheritance: She travelled the second time with your spiritual birth, and was in pain till she could see Christ formed in you, and the rest of the fruit of her loins; and that all her children by nature might be the adopted sons and daughters of God by grace; that you might be good rather then great, serviceable rather then honourable, that she might