A DISCOURSE OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABETH HOWARD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON LORD'S DAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1777, AGED 43. DELIVERED THE LORD'S DAY AFTER HER DECEASE. BY HER BEREAVED CONSORT, SIMEON HOWARD, A. M. PASTOR OF THE WEST CHURCH IN BOSTON.
Boston, New-England: Printed by T. & J. Fleet, and J. Gill, 1777. 36pp, with the half title as issued. Disbound, else Very Good.
A laid in contemporary handwritten notes between pages 14 and 15 states: "The learned D. Warburton aperts, that the Jews were totally ignorant of a future state, untill the time of the captivity, when they acquir'd their first knowledge of it from the Babylonians; and that Moses intentionally concealed from them this important truth."
The soul's immortality "should reconcile good men to the thoughts of death, and make them willing to leave the world whenever God calls them."
Evans 15367. ESTC W30830. Item #42061
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