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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
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.
The Third Proposition.
Tis the Excellency of the Good Portion, and of Choosing it, that the Portion is never to be taken away from them that Choose it. For,
Tis the Excellency of the Good Portion, and of Chusing it, that the Portion is never to be taken away from them that Chuse it. For,
First, A Christian having once been partaker of the Good Portion, he never can be Deprived of it. It is by the New Covenant, that we come to have our Claim to our Good Portion. ••t that Covenant is, Isa. 55.3. An Everlasting Covenant. Indeed, The Mountains shall depart, & the Hills be removed; but thy Good Portion, O ⟨p. 16⟩Saint of God, shall never depart from thee; neither shall the Covenant, by which thou holdest it, be remove saith the Lord, who has had such Mercy on thee, to bring thee unto the Choice of such a Portion.
First, A Christian having once been partaker of the Good Portion, he never can be Deprived of it. It is by the New Covenant, that we come to have our Claim to our Good Portion. ••t that Covenant is, Isa. 55.3. An Everlasting Covenant. Indeed, The Mountains shall depart, & the Hills be removed; but thy Good Portion, O ⟨p. 16⟩Saint of God, shall never depart from thee; neither shall the Covenant, by which thou holdest it, be remov saith the Lord, who has had such Mercy on thee, to bring thee unto the Choice of such a Portion.