Among many sad signs, and symptoms of Gods displeasure towards the land, I look on this, as not the least, viz. Gods removing so many of his precious Saints ⟨p. 2⟩and servants from among us, who while they were in the land of the Living) helped to keep off the storm of Gods anger, and to turn away his indignation from a God-provoking people. Oh that our hearts were more deeply affected with it! that we might feelingly say with the Prophet Isaiah (chap. 16. vers. 11. My bowels shall sound like a harp for England; Yea, we will sigh with the breaking of our loins, Ezek. 21.6. One choice Jewel among the rest, God has of late gathered to his Cabinet, namely, pious, precious, Mistress Scott; Concerning whom, because you desired my concurrent Testimony, as being one so well known to me, having been a member of my Congregation for divers years together, till she came to be under your charge: I have this to say; She was a Gentlewoman of a choice spirit, of a marvellous ⟨p. 3⟩sweet temper and disposition, of an amiable winning carriage, and of a truly pious and Religious conversation. She was one that made Religion her business, her [Greek or Hebrew], not her [Greek or Hebrew]: She made it her constant course vigorously to drive a Trade for heaven, and to be pressing towards the mark, even the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus; She was not like those, that Austin speaks of, qui utuntur Deo, ut fruantur mundo; But she made use of the world, but as a foot-stool, to raise up her soul to the enjoyment of God, as her portion for ever. She was not weary of Gods service, like those hypocrites that said, what a weariness is it, Mal. 1.13. but duty was her delight, and sin her greatest burden: The world did not make her weary of duty, but duty made her weary of the world; Her constant frequenting of Ordi ances, ⟨p. 4⟩(wherein she was both eminent and exemplary) her closest retirements, wherein she saw often a glimpse of that glory which she now enjoys in the bosom of Jesus Christ, made her long earnestly to be at her fathers house, and to breath out her Cupio desolvi, Oh that I might be with him whom my soul loveth! In brief, she made haste to heaven, lived much in a little time; holding forth the Word of life, by a holy and undaunted profession, holding fast the Word of Truth by a constant and undaunted Resolution, and so finished her course with joy.
AMong many sad signes, and symptoms of Gods displeasure towards the land, I look on this, as not the least, viz. Gods removing so many of his precious Saints ⟨p. 2⟩and servants from among us, who while they were in the land of the Living) helped to keep off the storm of Gods anger, and to turn away his indignation from a God-provoking people. Oh that our hearts were more deeply affected with it! that we might feelingly say with the Prophet Isaiah (chap. 16. vers. 11. My bowels shall sound like a harp for England; Yea, we will sigh with the breaking of our loines, Ezek. 21.6. One choice Jewel among the rest, God has of late gathered to his Cabinet, namely, pious, precious, Mistresse Scott; Concerning whom, because you desired my concurrent Testimony, as being one so well known to me, having been a member of my Congregation for divers years together, till she came to be under your charge: I have this to say; She was a Gentlewoman of a choice spirit, of a marvelous ⟨p. 3⟩sweet temper and disposition, of an amiable winning carriage, and of a truly pious and Religious conversation. She was one that made Religion her businesse, her 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not her 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: She made it her constant course vigorously to drive a Trade for heaven, and to be pressing towards the mark, even the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus; She was not like those, that Austin speaks of, qui utuntur Deo, ut fruantur mundo; But she made use of the world, but as a foot-stool, to raise up her soul to the enjoyment of God, as her portion for ever. She was not weary of Gods service, like those hypocrites that said, what a wearinesse is it, Mal. 1.13. but duty was her delight, and sin her greatest burden: The world did not make her weary of duty, but duty made her weary of the world; Her constant frequenting of Ordi ances, ⟨p. 4⟩(wherein she was both eminent and exemplary) her closest retirements, wherein she saw often a glimpse of that glory which she now enjoys in the bosom of Jesus Christ, made her long earnestly to be at her fathers house, and to breath out her Cupio desolvi, Oh that I might be with him whom my soul loveth! In brief, she made haste to heaven, lived much in a little time; holding forth the Word of life, by a holy and undaunted profession, holding fast the Word of Truth by a constant and undaunted Resolution, and so finished her course with joy.
