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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.
§. 4. At London, when she saw me too dull and backward to seek any Employment till I was called, and that most places in the City had some Supplies; she first fished out of me in what place I most desired more Preaching. I told her in St. Martins Parish, where are said to be forty thousand more than can come into the Church, especially among all the new Buildings at St. Jameses, where Neighbours many live like Americans, and have heard no Sermon of many years.
§. 4. At London, when she saw me too dull and backward to seek any Employment till I was called, and that most places in the City had some Supplies; she first fisht out of me in what place I most desired more Preaching. I told her in St. Martins Parish, where are said to be forty thousand more than can come into the Church, especially among all the new Buildings at St. Iameses, where Neighbours many live like Americans, and have heard no Sermon of many years.
When she had once heard this, without my knowledge she sets one to seek after some capacious Room there; and none was found, but divers Rooms over the Market-house laid together. She gets one to take them. And they two agreed to importune me to preach each morning, and in the afternoon to get by turns the ablest Ministers they could procure in London. And to that end she got a Minister an hundred miles off to come up to help me, promising him 4cl. a year to go from day to day to supply the places of such eminent Ministers as should be got. All this charge, besides paying a Clerk, and a woman to look to the Seats, rose high. Part of it the people paid, and the rest she paid her self.
When she had once heard this, without my knowledg she sets one to seek after some capacious Room there; and none was found, but divers Rooms over the Market-house laid together. She gets one to take them. And they two agreed to importune me to preach each morning, and in the afternoon to get by turns the ablest Ministers they could procure in London. And to that end she got a Minister an hundred miles off to come up to help me, promising him 4cl. a year to go from day to day to supply the places of such eminent Ministers as should be got. All this charge, besides paying a Clerk, and a woman to look to the Seats, rose high. Part of it the people paid, and the rest she paid her self.