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A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late…
A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late wife of the Reverend Mr. George Hamond, minister of the Gospel in London. By John Howe, minister of the same Gospel.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
MY offering this Discourse to the Eye of the World together with your own, shows how great Power our Ancient Friendship hath given you, over me; whereof I have the less unpleasant Sense, believing you will understand it so; who, in great part, know how difficult, my circumstances made it, to me, to comply with your desire herein. Your Opinion of the fitness of publishing so uncompos'd a thing, discovers how far you were subject also to the same Power; whose Judgement I am little apt to distrust, where it meets not with this bias.
MY offering this Discourse to the Eye of the World together with your own, shews how great Power our Ancient Friendship hath given you, over me; whereof I have the less unpleasant Sense, believing you will understand it so; who, in great part, know how difficult, my circumstances made it, to me, to comply with your desire herein. Your Opinion of the fitness of publishing so uncompos'd a thing, discovers how far you were subject also to the same Power; whose Judgement I am little apt to distrust, where it meets not with this byas.
It will be a joy to me, if it help to mitigate your Sorrow which is, in great part, justified, by the greatness of your Loss, in being separated, after so long Conversation, from so Excellent a Consort, that lived in this World, so much above it.
It will be a joy to me, if it help to mitigate your Sorrow which is, in great part, justify'd, by the greatness of your Loss, in being separated, after so long Conversation, from so Excellent a Consort, that lived in this World, so much above it.
I reckon it an evidence of the real greatness of her Spirit that She thought that, so little a thing, wherein others place Greatness. And that in almost Forty Years Acquaintance with you both, I should never hear of her nearness to a Noble Family, till, occasionally, since her Death. It seems the Blood that filled her Veins, did not swell her Mind. And her Heavenly Birth and Relation to the House and Family of God, made her forget her Earthly Kindred, and Parents House.