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

after once God had caused her ears to hear that word behind her, saying, This is the way walk in it, she shunned their books, company and discourses tending that way, as taking no pleasure therein, and would not tempt God, by going to the meetings of such as caused division, being sully persuaded of the truth and way she practised; thus trees by shaking become more firmly stoted. She was converted in the height of Prelacy, and was of the true old Puritan and right Nonconformist's ⟨p. 60⟩Spirit unto her dying day, accounting our Churches and Ministry essentially true, though wanting in circumstantials, she earnestly desired, and in her place fervently endeavoured a through reformation, without forsaking the Assemblies, and leaving the work to others, but would set to her helping hand also. She went on to perfection, but laid not again foundations; she held what was good, rejecting the ill, being of quick and sound understanding to discern between good and bad; She would mourn with the house of Chloe, for what was beyond her sphere to amend, and walked very comfortably with Christ her self in the middest of the golden Candlesticks, having her own garments undefiled, and others unworthiness did no way prejudice her. She was a very great and constant prizer of the faithful ⟨p. 61⟩Ministers of Jesus Christ, and rejoiced not in their light for a season, she knew them that were over her in the Lord, and esteemed them very highly in love for their works-sake, and endeavoured peace and unity with the rest. She walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless, never missing any when able to go, and much troubled when necessarily detained by illness; she thought not they could be too often enjoyed, when she could not go in her Coach in Winter time, by reason of the deepness of the way between Congherst and the Church, she would walk on foot in all the rainy and tempestuous weather, that long and tedious up and down hill way: (to ride she always dreaded since her fall) and when in London, often did she go from high Holborn to Christs-Church to the morning ⟨p. 62⟩Sermons on the Lords days, before the reft began, and then to them afterwards. Constantly did she attend Lectures and Fasts public and privare. In Summer when she was at Congherst, usually there in the Country, she had a weekly Lecture at Howkherst, and the Ministers still at her house.