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

Many Daughters] Daughters, here is taken more Hebraico for a Woman; as men are called Sons, so women are called Daughters, Cant 3.5.

But how doth this p urality of good Women (many Daughters have done virtuously) agree with that complaint of Solomon, ¹one man amongst a thousand have I found, but a Woman ⟨p. 7⟩amongst all these have I not found?

But how doth this p urality of good Women (many Daughters have done vertuously) agree with that complaint of Solomon, ¹one man amongst a thousand have I found, but a Woman ⟨p. 7⟩amongst all these have I not found?

1. 1Eccles. 7.28.

Some salve the difficulty thus; Solomon speaks in reference to his ••n experience; He had not found one good Woman indeed amongst a thousand, (referring to his former sensual converse with women;) He had a thousand Wives and Concubines, all the Daughters of strange profane Nations: and therefore it was no wonder he could not find one good amongst them all, they all proved snares to him to turn away his heart from the Lord unto Idols.¹