The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned

He was a singular Pattern of Dutifulness to Parents; being very tender and careful of his very aged Mother, both in respect to her Temporal and Spiritual State, liberally assisting her as to both (for tho' she was left a Widow in good Worldly Circumstances, yet in her Old Age she enjoyed not that Plenty as before). For Temporals, she, by his Care wanted nothing; in Spirituals he was as forward to afford his Help, for being Weak through' Age, and difficult in hearing, could not attend (as formerly) upon Public Ordinances, to supply the Want whereof, it was his constant Practice for many Years, every Lord's Day in the Evening, to go to her House, and laying his Face near her Ear, repeated the Sermons he had taken that Day, to her, and the rest in the Family.

He was a singular Pattern of Dutifulness to Parents; being very tender and careful of his very aged Mother, both in respect to her Temporal and Spiritual State, liberally assisting her as to both (for tho' she was left a Widow in good Worldly Circumstances, yet in her Old Age she enjoyed not that Plenty as before). For Temporals, she, by his Care wanted nothing; in Spirituals he was as forward to afford his Help, for being Weak thro' Age, and difficult in hearing, could not attend (as formerly) upon Publick Ordinances, to supply the Want whereof, it was his constant Practice for many Years, every Lord's Day in the Evening, to go to her House, and laying his Face near her Ear, repeated the Sermons he had taken that Day, to her, and the rest in the Family.

He was not short in his Relation, as a Brother to his Sisters, Two that by Providence were brought from higher to lower Circumstances in their outward State, he made comfortable Provisions for, one of which being discomposed in her Head, and not capable of caring for her self, he (like a loving Brother) was exceeding kind unto her, while he lived, and hath left them what will be a good Stay and Support unto them, now he is taken from his Mother and them.