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Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once…
Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once the honourable consort of John Leveret Esq. governor of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England,) who changed earth for heaven. 2 d. 11 m. 1704. : With an elegy upon her memory. : [Two lines from Augustine]Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once the honourable consort of John Leveret Esq. governour of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England,) who changed earth for heaven. 2 d. 11 m. 1704. : With an elegy upon her memory. : [Two lines from Augustine]
Boston: printed for Samuel Phillips, 1705
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Thirdly; The Righteousness of the Lord JESUS CHRIST reckoned Ours, is a Good Portion; It is most Righteously to be reckoned so. SIN is the Worst Evil. To be Saved from Sin, is a Good Portion. It was the Exclamation, Psal. 32.1, 2. Oh! the Blessednesses of the Man! Oh! the Blessednesses of the Man! There is a Law of Righteousness, wherein the Holy God has Condemned us unto dreadful Confusion, upon the least Failure of our Obedience to Him. We have grievously failed in our Obedience, and the Sentence of the Law has doomed us to suffer the Vengeance of Eternal Fire. Tis a Good thing sure, to be Released from the Sentence of Eternal Death, and at the same time to be Possessed of a Righteousness, wh• […] ⟨p. 10⟩the Law of God has adjudged Eternal Life as a Reward. The Son of God, Assuming our Nature became a Mediator, particularly Exercising • Priestly Office, in the yet more particular capacity of a Surety, to answer the Law of Righteousness in our stead. This our Surety, did both endure the Penalty of the Law, and fulfil the Precept of it, in our stead, according to the Covenant between God the Father and the Son, about His doing so. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST had a most Right•••• Heart, and led a most Righteous Life, and at length underwent the Miseries, that are the Essentials […] the Punishment, which was due to us for our Unrighteousness. Thus there is a Glorious RIGHTEOUSNESS wrought out and brought in, for the chosen People of God. And now, has not […] Person a Good Portion, who is own […] such a RIGHTEOUSNESS? This Righteousness is called, An Inheritance. [Heb. 11.7.] Oh! We Inherit a Good Portion; we are very Rich Heirs, if the Righteousness of our Lord JESUS CHRIST be Ours. May God, by an Act of His Free Grace, Impute this RIGHTEOUSNESS unto us, and Graciously look on it, as belonging unto us, for Us to be Judicially dealt withal according to the Merit of it: Verily, If we are of the Apostles mind, we shall forego all the Things under Heaven, for so Good a portion. Said he, Phil. 3.8, 9. I suffer the Loss of all things, that I may win CHRIST, and be found in Him, having that RIGHTEOUSNESS, which is through' the Faith of Christ.