Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will…

We are not Bribed by the Riches of them who Dye and are buried, for to bear any flattering and fulsome Testimonies for them. Nothing without a Shining Piety in our Friends, can obtain our Testimonies: Tho' sometimes Public Stations, or such things as place Persons in the Light of more Public Observation, may invite us to Enlarge upon them. Philip de Comines complaines of it, That when he expostulated with a Carthusian, for putting the Term of a Saint on one that had been a Person of a very evil Character, his Monk replied upon him, Sir, We always make a Saint of a Benefactor. I hope, that you will find Us clear of that Scandal; and that you have often found us most Expatiate in Commending ⟨p. 41⟩such Saints as have laid us under no Temporal and Personal Obligations.

We are not Bribed by the Riches of them who Dye and are buried, for to bear any flattering and fulsome Testimonies for them. Nothing without a Shining Piety in our Friends, can obtain our Testimonies: Tho' sometimes Public Stations, or such things as place Persons in the Light of more Public Observation, may invite us to Enlarge upon them. Philip de Comines complaines of it, That when he expostulated with a Carthusian, for putting the Term of a Saint on one that had been a Person of a very evil Character, his Monk replied upon him, Syr, We always make a Saint of a Benefactor. I hope, that you will find Us clear of that Scandal; and that you have often found us most Expatiate in Commending ⟨p. 41⟩such Saints as have laid us under no Temporal and Personal Obligations.

The Excellent Father of this Gentlewoman, and of this Country, (whose Life makes a Great Article among the MAGNALIA of New-England,) would in her Childhood, often present her to them that came to see him, and say with a peculiar Satisfaction, This is my New-England Token! because a good God had sent her to him, as a Token of His Favour to his Family, so soon after his coming to New-England. And I know not why New-England should not now present her to the World, as a Token of the Divine Favour to a Country, which He has adorned with such bright Jewels, as do surpass those of the Orient. When she lay at the Point of Death in her Minority, and was indeed given over for Dead, while Mr. Cotton was at Prayer with her, the Heart of her Father was raised unto a particular Faith for it, which he immediately declared, That the Child should Live! And now, having out-lived the Eightieth Year of her Age, I have an Opportunity to tell you, what sort of a Life it was, which that