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

V. I shall give an account of the method of her duties, and every days work. First, in the morning as she did rise, before she was off her bed, she made her children give her an account at her beds side, of their Catechisms in course, one, one morning, and another another, when they were so large in their accounts ⟨p. 115⟩as she could hear but one a time; when she was off her bed, she went to her closet for some time, then afterward she had refreshed her self with something, she would perform family duties with the family, when she had no Chaplain, in reading something of the Word, and prayer; Then she would use some little exercise she could find best for her health, which should not be long, and so to her closet again, reading the Scripture by herself, and spending the rest of the forenoon, unless some great occasions called her off till about eleven a clock, when she came out, and while she was making up her own bed (which she did every day, except the Lords days, for her exercise) she would cause her children to read the Scriptures, one one morning, and another another, and as they read she ⟨p. 116⟩would ask them, what they understood by such a place, instructing them as they read; if a place where some judgements were denounced against sin or a sinner, she would say, see what cause you have not to sin, and what you must look for if you do so, exhorting them from every such place. By that time she had done and was dressed it was well nigh dinner time; in the winter time, she loved not to come out of her chamber before dinner was at table, because the forenoons were so short, unless some business more then ordinary had called her away. In summer time, sometimes she would walk a little before dinner in Lincolns-Inn-fields, and twenty to one if she had not found an object of charity to scatter her benevolence upon, before she came in again: after dinner, after some little space, to her closet again, where ⟨p. 117⟩she was sometimes longer and sometimes shorter as her occasions would permit; if that afternoon she went to a Lecture, or to visit friends, she would be sure to go into her closet before she went out of doors, and when she came home to her closet again for some time;

V. I shall give an account of the method of her duties, and every dayes work. First, in the morning as she did rise, before she was off her bed, she made her children give her an account at her beds side, of their Catechismes in course, one, one morning, and another another, when they were so large in their accounts