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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.
§. 5. Among other troubles that her Marriage exposed her to, one was our oft necessitated removals; which to those that must take Houses, and bind themselves to Landlords, and fit and furnish them, is more than for single persons that have no such clogs or cares. First, We took a House in Moorefields, after at Acton; next that, another at Acton; and after that, another there; and after that, we were put to remove to one of the former again; and after that, to divers others in another place and County, as followeth; and the women have most of that sort of trouble. But she easily bare it all.
And I know not that ever she came to any place where she did not extraordinarily win the love of the inhabitants (unless in any street where she staid so short a time, as not to be known to them): Had she had but the riches of the world to have done the good that she had a heart to do, how much ⟨p. 50⟩would she have been loved, who in her mean and low condition won so much?
And her carriage won more love than her liberality; she could not endure to hear one give another any sour, rough, or hasty word; her speech and countenance was always kind and civil, whether she had any thing to give or not.
And her carriage won more love than her liberality; she could not endure to hear one give another any sowr, rough, or hasty word; her speech and countenance was always kind and civil, whether she had any thing to give or not.