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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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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.
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.
If God once be Our God, we may sing; P• 48.14. This God is our God for ever and ever. Wi•• once God has given Himself unto us, it will be Gift without Repentance; He never will Repent His Gift. The Engagement of God, unto th•• that have Him for their Portion, is, I will ne•• leave thee, nor forsake thee.