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Eureka. The virtuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary…Eureka. The vertuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary…
Eureka. The virtuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary Brown, late consort of Benjamin Brown Esq. in Salem. : [Three lines from Ruth III]Eureka. The vertuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary Brown, late consort of Benjamin Brown Esq. in Salem. : [Three lines from Ruth III]
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green, 1704
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
A POEM On the DEATH of the Pious and Virtuous Gentlewoman Mrs. MARY BROWN, Wife of BENJAMIN BROWN Esq. Who (having Lived just Five and Thirty Years) with her Child, Dyed in Child-Bed. December 26th. Anno Domini, 1703.
A POEM On the DEATH of the Pious and Vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. MARY BROWN, Wife of BENJAMIN BROWN Esq. Who (having Liv'd just Five and Thirty Years) with her Child, Dyed in Child-Bed. December 26th. Anno Domini, 1703.
Written in Commemoration of the Dead, and Consolation of the Living.
NO Wonder, Sir, if You be Sorely grieved, Husband & Father, both at once Bereaved! Bereaved of her, should in your Bosom be! And of what should be Dandled on your Knee! Ship, Cargo, Root & Branch; both Fruit & Tree All Swallowed up in one sad Ruin be! And the Sole Owner Mourning left alone, But one of Three, when One, is next to none! Sense saith, Your Case is desperately sad: Faith saith, The Tempest was not half so bad. ⟨p. 10⟩The Ship & Cargo's Saved, The fruitful Tree, Both Root & Branch, to Heaven Transplanted be. The Dam & Lamb were in one COVENANT: Both had that Shepherd would not let them want. When the blest Virgin had our Lord Conceived, A Mother and her Child in Him believed, Such Correspondence Then was held between Two Little Infants that no Eye had seen, As Joyed Two Mothers, Made an Unborn Boy Within his Mothers Womb to Leap for Joy. Sure Job had never Cursed his Birth Day Had not there been to Heaven an other Way. Nor did Hilkiah's Son wish to have died, Too Soon for to be Saved, and Sanctified. The Mother and her Child could not be Severed, Yet Neither of them Dyed Undelivered: Whose Souls find Heaven, & Bodies find a Grave, Christians Believe a good deliverance have. Her Groaning's Over, and She hath assigned Her Groans & Moan's, to those, She left behind. Although her Lying Inn will not be done Until the Glorious Resurrection. Then Eve's Curse will be off, and then no doubt, Such Mothers will bring forth, and not Cry Out. Their Babes Unmidwiv'd will be (past Objection) Children of God, and of the Resurrection. And this, I hope, will Satisfaction give The Mother and the Child will Then Both Live.