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

While she was a Wife, to a most valuable Servant of God, Mr. SAMUEL DANFORTH, the Pastor of Roxbury, she was no Stranger to Afflictions; especially in the Infirmity and Mortality of many Children. But by being thus Afflicted, she was but the more improved in that Piety which made her Honourable in the Eyes of all that have the Fear of God at all directing of their Sentiments.

As those Holy Women that bore a part in the First Voyages to this Wilderness, were those Good Things, than which the World had not many to show, that were Better, or more worthy to be had in Everlasting Remembrance: Thus our Land hath not many Things to be more boasted of, than a set of Holy Women found among their Daughters, who have been ⟨p. 43⟩Polished Stones in the Temple of God, and Patterns of the Things that are Holy, and Just, and Good. WOMEN, that have most entirely given themselves up unto God, and studied and practised Holiness in all manner of Conversation: Women, that have known and loved a dear SAVIOUR, and lived by the Faith of the Son of God: Women, that have walked with God, in the Religion of the Closet, and set an high Price on Communion with Him in the Assemblies of Zion: Women, that have been Wise, and Good, and most Obliging in all Relations, and bestowed upon their Children an agreeable Education: Women, that have with incomparable Patience and Meekness, entertained the Cross that has been ordered for them: Women, that have been Blessings to their Neighbours, and been helpful in a Thousand kind of Offices among the Distressed in their Neighbourhood. Such was this Handmaid of the Lord; and among such, a Star of the first Magnitude.

As those Holy Women that bore a part in the First Voyages to this Wilderness, were those Good Things, than which the World had not many to show, that were Better, or more worthy to be had in Everlasting Remembrance: Thus our Land hath not many Things to be more boasted of, than a set of Holy Women found among their Daughters, who have been ⟨p. 43⟩Polished Stones in the Temple of God, and Patterns of the Things that are Holy, and Just, and Good. WOMEN, that have most entirely given themselves up unto God, and studied and practised Holiness in all manner of Conversation: Women, that have known and lov'd a dear SAVIOUR, and liv'd by the Faith of the Son of God: Women, that have walk'd with God, in the Religion of the Closet, and set an high Price on Communion with Him in the Assemblies of Zion: Women, that have been Wise, and Good, and most Obliging in all Relations, and bestow'd upon their Children an agreeable Education: Women, that have with incomparable Patience and Meekness, entertained the Cross that has been ordered for them: Women, that have been Blessings to their Neighbours, and been helpful in a Thousand kind of Offices among the Distressed in their Neighbourhood. Such was this Handmaid of the Lord; and among such, a Star of the first Magnitude.