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

and herself employed about something or other of the same, when she was not in her spiritual converses with the Lord, or taken off by other occasions. She considered well both her husbands estates, and freed them from the encumbrances for her children, whom, she much endeavoured to make the children of God, in bringing them up in his nurture and admonition, and keeping divers days of fasts by her self, to seek the Lord for them, in which and divers other respects, they could not but arise and call her blessed, and give we her of the fruit of her hands and let her own work praise her in the gates. As her life, so her death was full of grace and comfort, the Lord strengthened her upon her bed of languishing; and made all her bed in her sickness; when she was ⟨p. 72⟩walking through the valley, of death she feared no evil, her God was with her, his rod and his staff they comforted her, and ministered to her an entrance abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Though her pains and tortures were great (the Physicians applying cupping glasses to her, and lancing her) yet the Lord did comfortably lift up the light of his countenance upon her, and put gladness in her heart, and made her patience have its perfect work, she was full of heaven, breaking forth in expressions of Gods goodness to her, saying, God hath been very good to me, how good is God, and how good it is to wait upon God, there hath not the least cloud interposed between God and my soul all this sickness, I will go to my God triumphing. ⟨p. 73⟩Thus with gladness and rejoicing was she carried to enter into the Kings Palace, into the joy of her Lord, where there is fullness of it, and pleasures for evermore. O mark we the perfect, behold we the upright, for the end of such is peace. No marvel that even Balaam in the sense hereof, did so desire to die the death of the righteous, and that his end might be like theirs; and well had he done if he had withal desired his life alike. For ever magnified be my good God, who hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of our habitations, that caused the lines to fall unto me in such a pleasant place, so long even six years in the same family with her, and that I should be chosen and ordained a Pastor to her and the people there at Hawkherst;

and herself imployed about something or other of the same, when she was not in her spirituall converses with the Lord, or taken off by other occasions. She considered well both her husbands estates, and freed them from the incumberances for her children, whom, she much endeavoured to make the children of God, in bringing them up in his nurture and admonition, and keeping divers days of fasts by her self, to seek the Lord for them, in which and divers other respects, they could not but arise and call her blessed, and give we her of the fruit of her hands and let her own work praise her in the gates. As her life, so her death was full of grace and comfort, the Lord strengthened her upon her bed of languishing; and made all her bed in her sicknesse; when she was