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The excellent woman a sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott ...…
The excellent woman a sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott ... on the 16 of Decemb. 1658 / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed for Robert Gibs, 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
My Apology is this; i• in this report I have exceeded the bounds of truth and modesty, bear witness to the excess; but if I hav• spoken the truth, why am […] smitten?
My Apology is this; i• in this report I have exceeded the bounds of trut• and modesty, bear witnes• to the excesse; but if I hav• spoken the truth, why am 〈…〉 smitten?
As for the truth of wha• I have spoken, let the annexed Testimonies of so many Reverend and godly Divines, with other authentic witnesses bear record: as also those many others that might be produced both in City and Country, who had the happiness to be privy and conscious to her walk and course I may truly say she had a ⟨image 11⟩good report of all men, 1and of the truth it self. Now whether in this Character given of this worthy Christian, I have been acted by a spirit of flattery, or a desire to do good; Yea, whither so much to honour the dead, as to provoke the living to an holy emulation of like strictness, and heavenly Conversation, the Searcher of hearts knoweth, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, 2and make manifest the Counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have the praise of God.
As for the truth of wha• I have spoken, let the annexed Testimonies of so many Reverend and godly Divines, with other authentique witnesses bear record: as also those many others that might be produced both in City and Countrey, who had the happinesse to be privy and conscious to her walk and course I may truly say she had a