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

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.

1. 1A good mother in spirituals.
2. 2I b. 39.13.14.15.16.

The most of Parents, if they can but Earth their Children enough, and warn them in the Dust, the Dust-heaps of the world, if they can but lade them with thick Clay, as Habakkuk phraseth silver and gold: