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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.
CHAP. VII. Of her exceeding desires to do good.
§. 1. AS at her conversion, and in her sickness, she absolutely devoted her self, and all that she had to God; so she earnestly set her self to perform it to the last. At first she gave but the tenth of her incomes to the poor; but I quickly convinced her, that God must not be stinted, but as all was his, so all must be used for him by his stewards, and of all we must give account; only in his appointed order we must use it, which is, 1. For our own natural necessities. 2. For public necessary good. 3. For the necessities of our children, and such Relations as are part of our charge. 4. And then for the godly poor. 5. And then for the common poor's necessities. 6. And lastly, For conveniences; but nothing for unuseful things.
§. 1. AS at her conversion, and in her sickness, she absolutely devoted her self, and all that she had to God; so she earnestly set her self to perform it to the last. At first she gave but the tenth of her incomes to the poor; but I quickly convinced her, that God must not be stinted, but as all was his, so all must be used for him by his stewards, and of all we must give account; only in his appointed order we must use it, which is, 1. For our own natural necessities. 2. For publick necessary good. 3. For the necessities of our children, and such Relations as are part of our charge. 4. And then for the godly poor. 5. And then for the common poors necessities. 6. And lastly, For conveniencies; but nothing for unuseful things.