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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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Female Piety Exemplified. In a Funeral-SERMON, on the DEATH of Mrs.… › APPLICATION.
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The Commemoration of them, who have Walked with God, until they are Taken by God, it may stir the Envy in some of the Living, but it is a Kindness, not so much unto the Dead, as unto the Living. Let it be Proclaimed; A Good Name is a Better Portion than Great Riches, and it is a Portion of them that have Chosen the Best Portion of all.
The Commemoration of them, who have Walked with God, until they are Taken by God, it may stir the Envy in some of the Living, but it is a Kindness, not so much unto the Dead, as unto the Living. Let it be Proclamed; A Good Name is a Better Portion than Great Riches, and it is a Portion of them that have Chosen the Best Portion of all.
Tis Instanced in that Worthy GENTLEWOMAN, (One upon every account worthy to be called so,) whose Death is at this Day the Lamentation of them, who reckon the Graves of the Saints, proper places to drop their Tears upon. In her Character, all that have any Regard unto Virtue, agree to fulfil that Promise of God; Prov. 31.30. A Woman that fears the Lord, she shall be Praised. I must in Justice make this Report, That I never once in all my life, to my Remembrance, heard one Ill word spoken of her. We may say of her, as they said of Ruth, All the People knew, that ⟨p. 26⟩she was a Virtuous Woman. Or as the Martyr Ignatius of his Venerable Mary, That she was [Greek or Hebrew], A Sampler for all Gods Women. Fitly enough might she have been styled as diverse Holy and Famous Women in the Scripture were, A Daughter of Asher: The SEDGWICK was an Asher, that is to say, An Happy Man, that was the Father of such a Daughter. Our SARAH had her Abraham too: There was a Time when her Husband, the GOVERNOR o• this Renowned Colony, was Known in the Courts and in the Camp, and Sat among the Elders of th• Land. SHE was then an Honour unto Him and unto all the Land; And her Deportment had in it, the Discretion, the Gravity, the Tenderness, and the Holiness of those brave Women, which made the Pagans of old Cry out, with wonders Proh, Quales Faeminas habent Christiani! Surely The Christian Women are the best in the world. She was, when she no longer shone with his Rays, afterwards, and many Years, a Widow, which departed not from the Temple, but served God in His House, with a scarce to be paralleled Frequency & Industry. In her own House, the Lively Concern that she Expressed, for the serving of her God, and the saving of her Soul, gave a lovely Representation of Christianity to the Life; and she is gone to Reap the Harvest of it, in Everlasting Life. Her Name-sake SARAH, is the only Woman, whose Age is Recorded in the Sacred Oracles. It minds me to say of our SARAH, That