Elizabeth in her holy retirement. An essay to prepare a pious woman for her…

Tis to be further Noted, That Meditations, assiduous and affectuous Meditations, ⟨p. 19⟩on a Glorious CHRIST, are both Instances and Incentives of True Holiness It is the most astonishing thing that ever was in the World; Gal. IV. 4. God sent forth His Son, made of a Woman. Oh, Meditate much on it, and with much Astonishment. O Great Saviour, O Bright Emmanuel; How gloriously didst those Humble thy self! Was there a Sinless Man conceived in a Virgin! Did the Son of God vouchsafe to Assume and Unite this Man, into His own […] •ond Person! Is there now lying […] bosom of the Eternal Son of God, […], who was once an Infant in the Womb of a Virgin! A Man born of a Woman, who is more than a Man! God manifest in Flesh. A Man bred, and born, and nursed by a Woman; but this Man-Child caught up unto God, and His Throne; and become the Lord of Angels, and of Worlds, and the Judge to whom all must give an Account. We are Saved through' that Illustrious Child-bearing! O the Dignity put upon our poor Sex, in the Birth of such a Redeemer! O the Assurance which the ⟨p. 20⟩Distressed Handmaids of the Lord have to find Help with such a Redeemer in their Time of Need! Yea, you may improve this Consolation, in your Supplication for a Safe Deliverance, in the Hour that is coming upon you. Plead, O Good God, The Humiliation of my Saviour in the circumstances o• His Nativity, has purchased this for me that I should be Saved in Child-bearing; Oh, Save me graciously! O my Saviour, […] thou wast born of a Woman, certa•• […] Child bearing Women, may cry […] for thy Protection, thy Assistance. I hope in thee for it; such Salvation belongs unto thee, O Lord!

Tis to be further Noted, That Meditations, assiduous and affectuous Meditations, ⟨p. 19⟩on a Glorious CHRIST, are both Instances and Incentives of True Holiness It is the most astonishing thing that ever was in the World; Gal. IV. 4