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

I Shall not need to fear the reviving of your sorrows by this late address; I find them still ⟨image 3⟩fresh upon your spirit; and I dare not accuse you for it: I had almost said, you cannot be guilty of an excess in your mourning over the loss of such a child; A child not only of the severest obedience, but of the sweetest and tenderest respect to your spiritual and eternal good, that most Mothers ever had the happiness to bring forth.

I Shall not need to fear the reviving of your sorrowes by this late address; I finde them still ⟨image 3⟩fresh upon your spirit; and I dare not accuse you for it: I had almost said, you cannot be guilty of an excesse in your mourning over the losse of such a childe; A child not only of the severest obedience, but of the sweetest and tenderest respect to your spiritual and eternal good, that most Mothers ever had the happinesse to bring forth.

Surely it was her pious care to pay in grace, the debt which he owed you by nature: and to compensate her natural being received from you, with your spiritual.

Surely it was her pious care to pay in grace, the debt which he owed you by nature: and to compensate her natural being received from you, with your spirituall.

Your Ladyship hath often acknowledged to myself, and others what a soul-help she was to you, ever since God was pleased to call her by his grace, and to reveal his son in her. Surely as seldom have children lost a better mother; so seldom did mother lose a better child. And as such a loss can hardly be overwept, so I am afraid our times are little guilty of such a sin. Our sin is rather that we bury our sorrows together in the same grave with our godly, praying, soul-friends, as if