A26870:152
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.
§. 14. She got from her friends also money to help to build another very useful Chapel for another, among a numerous poor people, where still much good is done. And she promoted two or three such more.
§. 14. She got from her friends also money to help to build another very useful Chappel for another, among a numerous poor people, where still much good is done. And she promoted two or three such more.
§. 15. She was very impatient of public Collections for the Ministers, or for the Rent of the place, because it sounded ill, and prejudiced the ignorant and covetous, and troubled the poor that had no money; and therefore did the utmost she could with her own Purse and her friends to avoid it, knowing that Rent must be paid, and Ministers and their Families must have Bread (and it's pity they should be under the cares of want).
§. 15. She was very impatient of publick Collections for the Ministers, or for the Rent of the place, because it sounded ill, and prejudiced the ignorant and covetous, and troubled the poor that had no money; and therefore did the utmost she could with her own Purse and her friends to avoid it, knowing that Rent must be paid, and Ministers and their Families must have Bread (and it's pity they should be under the cares of want).
§. 16. She was so far from crossing me in my preaching freely without Salary, or gathering a Church that would maintain me, or making Collections, or getting Subscriptions, that she would not have endured any such thing if I had desired it; though she knew that the labourer was worthy of his hire, and that God had ordained, that they that Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel: yet she knew that all must be done to the furtherance of the Gospel, and to edifying; and was of Paul's mind, that would rather die than any should make his glorying void, and deprive him of that reward. Therefore it was so far from offending her (as it would be with many Ministers Wives that were in want, and might have such maintenance as is their due), that I neither conformed, nor took any place of gain, that it was as much by her will as my own, that for the first nine or ten years of my ejected state I took not so much as any private gift to supply my wants, except Ten Pounds a year from Serjeant Fountain, which his importunity, and my civility would not permit me to refuse.