The Heavenly Sisters, Or, Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Thirty ...
The Heavenly Sisters, Or, Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Thirty ...
T. Sharp
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JV^JSr BAYJ^jmD, Was descended from an ancient and respectable family in Lancashire^ and born in the year 1672. Digitized by Google MRS. ANN BATNAIIB. d9 She possessed great powers of mind, understood the classical languages, and made considerable ac- quisitioDS in arts and sciences y but after all those attainments and endowments, she declared, with St. Paul, ^^That she counted all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.J' PhiK iii. 8. Thus she wisely acco...unted ^all human learning as worth but little, unless used as. a handmaid to religion. "What avails,'' said she, ^^Solomon's skill in the works of nature, if by nature we are not brought to see the God of nature ? What avails being skillful in astronomy, if we never stu- dy to arrive at those blessed regions ? What ad- vantage is skill in arithmetic, if we do not learn to number our days, andapply our hearts to wisdom ? What use is it for a physician to know either how to prevent or heal the diseases of the body, if he knew not where to find the halm of Gilead, the wine and oil of the good Samaritan, to pour into the wounds of his own soul ?
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