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

But lastly, others conceive, that the whole description ⟨p. 4⟩to be but the Character of an excelle•t woman at large, and not particularly applied to any single person, but as it were a general Draught or Portraiture by which we may know an excellent woman, a Wife indeed, when we see her.

But lastly, others conceive, that the whole description ⟨p. 4⟩to be but the Character of an excelle•t woman at large, and not particularly applyed to any single person, but as it were a general Draught or Portraicture by which we may know an excellent woman, a Wife indeed, when we see her.

And it is conceived that this description is a continued part of this Prophecy which Bathsheba dedicated unto Solomon, and was specially intended to be his Rule and Standard in the choice of a Wife; the special study and care of a pious Mother, as we see in Rebecca towards Jacob, Gen. 29.46. And to this conjecture I do rather incline.

And it is conceived that this description is a continued part of this Prophesie which Bathsheba dedicated unto Solomon, and was specially intended to be his Rule and Standard in the choice of a Wife; the special study and care of a pious Mother, as we see in Rebecca towards Jacob, Gen. 29.46. And to this conjecture I doe rather incline.

In this description, the eighteenth precedent verses contain the particular virtues and praises of this excellent Woman, my Text is the summa totalis, the Compendium and Coronis of the whole Character, the Crown wherewith she is Crowned (as it were) in the face of Heaven and Earth, God and Angels and Men; Many Daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.