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

But doubtless God was with her and made good the Mystery of the widows Cruse of Oil, & handful of Meal, for the paying of her debts, & preserving of her Family.

But doubtless God was with her and made good the Mistery of the widows Cruse of Oyle, & handful of Meale, for the paying of her debts, & preserving of her Family.

This worthy Gentlewoman was not less a Mother to them in Spirituals then in temporals: ¹the neglect whereof is the great sin of most Parents, and the ruin of their Children;² of whom we may say as Job of the Ostrich, She leaveth her Eggs in the Earth, and warmeth them in the dust; and ⟨p. 66⟩forgetteth that the for may crush them, or that the wild beasts may break them; she is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear, because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted unto her understanding.

This worthy Gentlewoman was not less a Mother to them in Spirituals then in temporals: ¹the neglect whereof is the great sinne of most Parents, and the ruine of their Children;² of whom we may say as Job of the Ostrich, She leaveth her Eggs in the Earth, and warmeth them in the dust; and ⟨p. 66⟩forgetteth that the foor may crush them, or that the wild beasts may breake them; she is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vaine without feare, because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted unto her understanding.