A26870:156
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.
§. 18. When Warrants were out (from Sir Thomas Davis) to distrain of my goods for fines for my Preaching, she did, without any repining, encourage me to undergo the loss, and did her self take the trouble of removing, and hiding my Library a while (many score being so lost), and after, to give it away, bonâ fide, some to New England, and the most at home to avoid distraining on them. And the danger of Imprisonment, and paying 40. l. for every Sermon, was so far from inclining her to hinder or discourage me from any one Sermon, that if she did but think I had the least fear, or self-saving by fleshly wisdom, in shrinking from my undertaken Office work, it was so great a trouble to her, that she could not hide it (who could too much hide many others).
§. 18. When Warrants were out (from Sir Thomas Davis) to distrain of my goods for fines for my Preaching, she did, without any repining, encourage me to undergo the loss, and did her self take the trouble of removing, and hiding my Library a while (many score being so lost), and after, to give it away, bonâ fide, some to New England, and the most at home to avoid distraning on them. And the danger of Imprisonment, and paying 40. l. for every Sermon, was so far from enclining her to hinder or discourage me from any one Sermon, that if she did but think I had the least fear, or self-saving by fleshly wisdom, in shrinking from my undertaken Office work, it was so great a trouble to her, that she could not hide it (who could too much hide many others).
§. 19. She was exceeding impatient with any Nonconforming Ministers that shrunk for fear of suffering, or that were over-querulous and sensible of their wants or dangers; and would have no man be a Minister that had not so much self-denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ, and count no cost or suffering too dear to serve him. She greatly hated choosing, or using the sacred Ministry for wealth, ease, or honour, or any worldly end, serving the flesh under the name of serving Christ, and looking to be reverenced and honoured in this taking of Gods Name in vain.