BUT has this Pious MARY any Daughters in our Days to be found among our selves? Any Admirers and Followers of Her Exemplary Piety? It may not be made a Question of. The public Admonitions to do like MARY, in Choosing the Good Part, will come with a Good Force, if we can show a MARY, (or a SARAH) in our very Neighbourhood, of whom we might say▪ Behold, An Example of doing so! Certainly, there are such Handmaids of the Lord among the Daughter of our Zion: And as there were Three Maries to One John, under the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ I wish, my Sex were not near as much […] ⟨p. 4⟩done in the Number of them that make Choice of that Precious LORD. Among the Daughters that have thus done Virtuously, I can say to my Hearers, that such an one was this Day Sennight with us in the Congregation, like a devout MARY, Unweariedly listening, as she use to be, unto the Word of God. But she is now flown away to that Congregation, where God is Worshipped, not only without Weariness, but also without any Infirmity, without any Imperfection. It is fit, that such a Mother in Israel, should be spoken of; and there is now an opportunity for it, in the Presence and Audience of a GENERAL ASSEMBLY of our Israel. It was her Excellent Character for Prudence and Goodness, and particularly for her Imitation of the Celebrated MARY, in a Constant, Awful, Affectionate Attention to the Word of God, that has carried me away to a Theme, on which I need say nothing (nor shall I,) but what was to be Read in her Holy Conversation. I am sure, This will be a way of Women's Teaching in the Church, which the Apostle never disapproved of! And we may now confirm an Observation, That the Word of God it self sometimes comes in as a Recompense and an Instrument of Honour unto them who have Honoured the Word with a more than ordinary Diligence, and Attention.
BUT has this Pious MARY any Daughters in our Dayes to be found among our selves? Any Admirers and Followers of Her Exemplary Piety? It may not be made a Question of. The •ublick Admonitions to do like MARY, in Chusing the Good Part, will come with a Good Force, if we can show a MARY, (or a SARAH) in our very Neighbourhood, of whom we might say▪ Behold, An Exemple of doing so! Certainly, there are such Handmaids of the Lord among the Daughter of our Zion: And as there were Three Maries to One John, under the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ I wish, my Sex were not near as much 〈…〉 ⟨p. 4⟩done in the Number of them that make Choice of that Precious LORD. Among the Daughters that have thus done Vertuously, I can say to my Hearers, that such an one was this Day Se'nnight with us in the Congregation, like a devout MARY, Unweariedly listening, as she use to be, unto the Word of God. But she is now flown away to that Congregation, where God is Worshipped, not only without Weariness, but also without any Infirmity, without any Imperfection. It is fit, that such a Mother in Israel, should be spoken of; and there is now an opportunity for it, in the Presence and Audience of a GENERAL ASSEMBLY of our Israel. It was her Excellent Character for Prudence and Goodness, and particularly for her Imitation of the Celebrated MARY, in a Constant, Awful, Affectionate Attention to the Word of God, that has carried me away to a Theme, on which I need say nothing (nor shall I,) but what was to be Read in her Holy Conversation. I am sure, This will be a way of Womens Teaching in the Church, which the Apostle never disapproved of! And we may now confirm an Observation, That the Word of God it self sometimes comes in as a Recompence and an Instrument of Honour unto them who have Honoured the Word with a more than ordinary Diligence, and Attention.
