You see, Children, what your now Blessed Mothers Prayers & Hopes were ⟨p. v⟩for, and concerning you. Now your Mother is gone, I and you must prepare to follow. Notwithstanding the Promise annexed to the Fifth Commandment, and your having been Dutiful to your Parents; I would not have any of you, Lot on a long Life in the Earth. If God, for Christ's sake, shall give you Eternal Life in that World, of which the Land of Canaan was a Figure, that will be sufficient. Four of your Number (there have been Ten, now there are but Six of you) are gone before your Mother; and I trust all of them are with her in a better World. Yet they were Dutiful Children. Your Brother Nathaniel & Sister Jerusha, were Exemplary for their Piety towards God, as well as for their Dutifulness to me and to your Mother. But they are not. God has given Children to the most of you: I doubt not but you are much in Prayer for them, as your Mother was for you. I Bless the Lord that there are hopeful Signs of Grace and Regeneration in several of them. ⟨p. vi⟩The Lord whose Faithfulness extends to Children's Children of them that Fear him, remember his Covenant with them all. The Consideration of the Families and Progenitors whom you are descended from, should make you the more careful (not to say, We have Abraham for our Father) but to follow them as they followed Christ. Your Mother, you know, was Pious: Your Grand-fathers were both of them Eminent Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ; and both your Grand-mothers were very Gracious Holy Women. GOD forbid that any of you, or yours, should Degenerate from the Piety of your Ancestors. In hope, that they, and I, and your Mother, and you and your Children, shall Live together Eternally, in the Heavenly World, I Bless you all, and all yours, in His Name; who am,
You see, Children, what your now Blessed Mothers Prayers & Hopes were ⟨p. v⟩for, and concerning you. Now your Mother is gone, I and you must prepare to follow. Notwithstanding the Promise annexed to the Fifth Commandment, and your having been Dutiful to your Parents; I would not have any of you, Lot on a long Life in the Earth. If God, for Christ's sake, shall give you Eternal Life in that World, of which the Land of Canaan was a Figure, that will be sufficient. Four of your Number (there have been Ten, now there are but Six of you) are gone before your Mother; and I trust all of them are with her in a better World. Yet they were Dutiful Children. Your Brother Nathaniel & Sister Ierusha, were Exemplary for their Piety towards God, as well as for their Dutifulness to me and to your Mother. But they are not. God has given Children to the most of you: I doubt not but you are much in Prayer for them, as your Mother was for you. I Bless the Lord that there are hopeful Signs of Grace and Regeneration in several of them. ⟨p. vi⟩The Lord whose Faithfulness extends to Childrens Children of them that Fear him, remember his Covenant with them all. The Consideration of the Families and Progenitors whom you are descended from, should make you the more careful (not to say, We have Abraham for our Father) but to follow them as they followed Christ. Your Mother, you know, was Pious: Your Grand-fathers were both of them Eminent Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ; and both your Grand-mothers were very Gracious Holy Women. GOD forbid that any of you, or yours, should Degenerate from the Piety of your Ancestors. In hope, that they, and I, and your Mother, and you and your Children, shall Live together Eternally, in the Heavenly World, I Bless you all, and all yours, in His Name; who am,
