A26870:11
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and…
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and wife of Richard Baxter ... : there is also published the character of her mother, truly described in her published funeral sermon, reprinted at her daughters request, called, The last work of a believer, his passing-prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ, to be received by him.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To these I added a fourth, a Breviate of the Life and Death of that worthy Mother of my Wife, as to the time since I knew her. But I have cast by all these later three, and much of the first, by the Counsel of wise Friends, as things which they think that Strangers will not make so great a matter […] Love and Nearness made me do. And I must […] that God's Image is the same thing on all his Children; and when you have described one, you have described all, as to the Essentials. But (as in Faces and bodily Strength) they so much differ in Integrals, Degrees and Accidents, that the Lives of some are far more Exemplary and Honourable to Christ their Lord, and their Christian Profession, than others are. And some are so much blemished by Errors, Soul-Diseases, and miscarriages of Life, yea and injuries to the Church of Christ, by their carnal Animosities and Divisions, as rendereth the Examples of the more wise, holy, loving and peaceable, and patient Christians, the more conspicuous and honourable by the difference.
To these I added a fourth, a Breviate of the Life and Death of that worthy Mother of my Wife, as to the time since I knew her. But I have cast by all these later three, and much of the first, by the Counsel of wise Friends, as things which they think that Strangers will not make so great a matter 〈…〉 Love and Nearness made me do. And I must 〈…〉 that God's Image is the same thing on all his Children; and when you have described one, you have described all, as to the Essentials. But (as in Faces and bodily Strength) they so much differ in Integrals, Degrees and Accidents, that the Lives of some are far more Exemplary and Honourable to Christ their Lord, and their Christian Profession, than others are. And some are so much blemished by Errours, Soul-Diseases, and miscarriages of Life, yea and injuries to the Church of Christ, by their carnal Animosities and Divisions, as rendereth the Examples of the more wise, holy, loving and peaceable, and patient Christians, the more conspicuous and honourable by the difference.
On this account, finding young people naturally much delighted in History, and that for want of better, abundance are quickly corrupted and ensnared by Tale books, Romances, Play-books, and false or hurtful