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

They do, and they have cause so to do; and great need they have to look that the Harvest be answerable to the seed; lest otherwise, their Education rise up in judgement against them in time to come; and they have cause to curse themselves instead of blessing her; and to wish they had been born of a Turk or an Infidel, rather then of so holy a Mother.

They doe, and they have cause so to doe; and great need they have to look that the Harvest be answerable to the seed; lest otherwise, their Education rise up in judgement against them in time to come; and they have cause to curse themselves instead of blessing her; and to wish they had been born of a Turk or an Infidel, rather then of so holy a Mother.

But I hope better things, &c.

¹Her servants have not lest cause to bless her, then her Children; whose Spiritual soul good she tendered as if they had all been the fruit of her own bowels: They shared with her Children in her pious discipline and instruction according to their several capacities ⟨p. 71⟩she would caution them to prepare for holy Ordinances,² and enquire how it was with them after the Ordinance was finished, what they remembered? what impressions they found upon their Spirits? She would be often conferring wi•h them about their Evidences, always calling upon them to get a bottom, to work out their salvation with fear and trembling, and to redeem the time.