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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.
It is a happy thing to be related to them that are truly godly. How did she pray for her husband and children? Nature helps grace, and grace acts for nature, Rom. 9.2, ⟨p. 47⟩3. I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart, and I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh. Rom. 10.1. Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.
It is a happy thing to be related to them that are truly godly. How did she pray for her husband and children? Nature helps grace, and grace acts for nature, Rom. 9.2, ⟨p. 47⟩3. I have great heavinesse and continuall sorrow in my heart, and I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh. Rom. 10.1. Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.
When we cannot serve God so well as we ought, we should serve him as well as we can, and not omit duties. She was troubled for being so unprepared, yet came to Sacraments and found God very graciously. 2 Chron. 30.18. &c. The good Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary, and the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, an healed the people.