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Act. 371
which the
God of nature
had
given her,
'.and
which was
so
well
furnished with
a variety of human and divine
knowledge,
and
wa's
$toyed
with
a
rich
treasure of the
word
of God,
so
that if providence
had
called
her into
a
more
public
appearance,
she might have
stood up in
the
world
as
"
a
burning and shining light,"
so
far
as
her
sex
and
station required. This
furniture of
the mind
seems,
indeed, to
be
lost
in
death, and
buried
in
the
grave
;
but
we give in
too much to the
judgment
of
sense;
did
not this
extensive knowledge
lay
a
foundation
for her
early piety? And
did
it
tìot,
by
this means,
prepare
her
fOr
a
more speedy removal
to
a
higher school
of
improvement, and a
world
of
sublimer
devotion?
And
does she
not
shine
there among brighter and
better
company
?
We'
mourn again
for
our
loss
of a
person
so
valuable,
when
we
think
of
that general
calmness and sedateness
of
soul, which she possessed
in a peculiar
degree,
so
that
she
was
not greatly
elevated or depressed
by
cómnon
accidents or
occurrences; but
this secured
her
from
the
rise
of
unruly
passions, those
stormy powers
of
nature,
which
sometimes
sink us
into
guilt
and
distress,
and
make
us
unwilling
and
afraid
of the
sudden
surnrnons
of
Christ, lest
he
should
find us
under
these disorders.
We think
of
her
firmness
of
spirit,
and
that
steady
fesOlution, which,
joined
with
a
natural
reserve,
was
a
happy guard against
many of
the
forward
follies
and
dangers
of
youth, and proved
a
"successful
defence'
against
some
of
the allurements
and'
temptations
of
the
gayer years
of
life:
And
then
we
mourn'
afresh,
that
a
person,
so
well
formed for growing
prudence and virtue,
should
be
so
suddenly snatched
away from
amongst
us.
But
this
steady and dispassionate frame
of
soul,
well
im-.
proved
by
religion and divine
grace, became
an
effec-
tual
means
to preserve
her youth
more unblemished,
and
made her spirit fitter for the heavenly world, where
"
nothing
can
enter that
ìs defiled,"
and
whose
delights
are not
tumultuous
as
-ours are on
earth;
but
all
is
a.
calm and
rational state
of
joy.
We lament yet further,
when
we
think
of
her native
goodness,
and
unwillingness to displease But goodness
is
the
very
temper
of that
region
to
which
she
is
goge,
B