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

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.

¹Her servants have not lest cause to bless her, then her Children; whose Spiritual soule good she tendered as if they had all been the fruit of her owne 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 remembred? 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.

1. 1Her care of her servants.
2. 2Holy Ordinances.