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

I must confess it is ver• sad to observe how unab•• many Professors are to bea• the just commendation […] those who do excel in virtue: I am not willing […] search into the reasons lest I be thought to burden others with censure, while▪ I seek to cast it off from m• self, I will only say th•• much, It is as unworthy, Christians to envy the glory o• ⟨image 10⟩•hem that are illustrious, as •t would be to detract from •hem: Especially when their eminency is reported, not for the discouragement •nd reproach of them that are in a lower sphere, but for their instruction, and to provoke to imitation. It •hould rather cheer us to the heart to see the beams of •he Lords grace breaking •ut with so much glory to •he Giver, and that God •s glorified by others, better then our selves; and that while we are at the bottom of the hill, others get •earer to the top & height of Christian perfection.

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