A Short NARRATIVE of the Life and Death of Elizabeth Butcher.
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A Short NARRATIVE of the Life and Death of Elizabeth Butcher.
The I. SECTION. Containing a brief Account of her, from her Birth in July, 1709, to her first remarkable Illness in Sept. 1716.
1. ELIZABETH BUTCHER, Daughter to Alvin and Elizabeth Butcher of Boston, was born July 14th 1709. Her Parents gave her up to God from the Womb, and as soon as she was capable of speaking, they began to instruct her in the Things of God.
2. When she was about two Years and an Half old, as she lay in the Cradle, she would ask herself that Question, 'What is my corrupt Nature?' and would make Answer again to herself, ⟨p. 2⟩'It is empty of Grace, bent unto Sin, and only to Sin, and that continually. 'She took great Delight in learning her Catechism, and would not willingly go jo Bed without saying some Part of it.
2. When she was about two Years and an Half old, as she lay in the Cradle, she would ask herself that Question, 'What is my corrupt Nature?' and would make Answer again to herself, ⟨p. 2⟩'It is empty of Grace, bent unto Sin, and only to Sin, and that continually. 'She took great Delight in learning her Catechism, and would not willingly go io Bed without saying some Part of it.