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Elizabeth in her holy retirement. An essay to prepare a pious woman for her…
Elizabeth in her holy retirement. An essay to prepare a pious woman for her lying in. Or, Maxims and methods of piety, to direct and support an handmaid of the Lord, who expects a time of travail. : [Three lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Nicholas Boone, 1710
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Duties and the Supports OF One Expecting an Hour of Travail.
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.
If any thing else be necessary to Settle the Good State, either of your Soul, or of your House, Do with your might what your Hand finds to do.
And now, Your FAITH! You Read, Heb. XI. 11. Through' Faith, Sarah was delivered of a Child. In the Renewed, and often Repeated Exercise, of a Lively Faith, keep Looking for the Mercy of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, unto Life, both Temporal and Eternal. By Faith, keep continually committing your self, into His Glorious Hands; who said unto a Godly Woman when her Faith began to fail her; Joh. XI. 40. Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the Glory of God? Were your Husband able to give you an Happy Travail, how willing would he be to do it! Yea, (were there any Goodness in him!) tho' it were to be by bearing your Trouble for you, as a rare Sympathy has caused Some to do! But by Faith you make Sure of your Saviour to be your Husband. The Voice of your Faith is, O my Saviour, I am thine; Do thou Possess me; And by thee let me bring forth Fruit unto God! And now, by Faith depend ⟨p. 32⟩on your most Mighty, and most Gracious Husband. Say to Him, Cry to Him; O my Saviour, How canst thou cast me off! Hope in Him, to see the Fulfilment of a Word that once dropped from Him; Joh. XVI. 21. A Woman when she is in Travail, hath Sorrow, because her Hour is come; but as soon as she is Delivered of the Child, she remembers no more Anguish; for Joy that a Man is born into the World.
And now, Your FAITH! You Read, Heb. XI. 11. Thro' Faith, Sarah was delivered of a Child. In the Renewed, and often Repeted Exercise, of a Lively Faith, keep Looking for the Mercy of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, unto Life, both Temporal and Eternal. By Faith, keep continually committing your self, into His Glorious Hands; who said unto a Godly Woman when her Faith began to fail her;