avocations; so that he could, with leisure and greater ease of mind, pursue his studies, and devote himself to his ministerial work. She was continued to him more than forty-six years, and died October 10, 1764, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. His sermon on her death has been printed, and is esteemed one of the best funeral discourses he published. The text of it is, Heb. 11:16. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for
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