A26870:154
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.
§. 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.
§. 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 Fountaine, which his importunity, and my civility would not permit me to refuse.
§. 17. And I take it yet for a greater part of her self-denial and charity, that when her own Estate proved much too short to maintain her in the exercise of such good works as she was devoted to, she at length refused not to accept with thanks the liberality of others, and to live partly on Charity, that she might exercise Charity to them that could not so easily get it from others as we could do: And accordingly of latter years divers faithful pious friends (no way related to us, or obliged by us) have been so free, kind and liberal, that I have much ado to forbear