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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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Fourthly. A Principle of GRACE in the Soul, • Good Portion; The Least Portion of such principle will dispose a man to think it so. As •as said, Heb. 13.9. It is a Good thing, that the •rt be Established with Grace; thus we may say, […] Good thing, to have an Heart Principled with •ce. The Holy Spirit of God is Good. We read, […] Thy Spirit is Good. The Spirit of Grace is a […] Portion to the Person that has it. A Princes […] GRACE infused into the Soul, gives a New •••me unto the Soul; and that New Frame is a […] One. In true GRACE, we have the Image ••od, we have the Foretaste of Heaven; we have • Seed of a blessed Immortality. Tis a Portion that […] Meet for the Portion of the Saints in Light. […] sometimes Enquire after the PORTION […] or Such an one. Why, If they have the […] of Christ, they have a Good Portion; ••ey have that which when it is found in Women, or Men either,) we are told, 1 Pet. 3.4. It is of •eat Price. Is not a Portion of what is far better than Silver and Gold, a Good Portion? Of GRACE we read, Prov. 3.14, 15. The Merchandise it is better than the Merchandise of Silver, and the in thereof than fine Gold; It is more precious than •arts; and all the Things that thou canst desire, are […] to be compared unto it. One Drachm of true GRACE in the Soul, is a Portion of more worth, ••an all the Riches of the Indies. Oh! That our beloved Hearers, might all of them have, as One • them lately gone from us remarkably had, the GRACE to count it so!
Fourthly. A Principle of GRACE in the Soul, • Good Portion; The Least Portion of such rinciple will dispose a man to think it so. As as said,