A26870:161
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.
§. 22. Her judgment was, that we ought to give more or less to every one that asketh, if we have it; and that Neighbourhood, and notice, and asking, next to known indigence, and great worth, are the marks by which to know to whom God would have us give. I thought, that besides these, we must exercise prudence in discerning the degrees of need and worth. But she practised as she thought, and specially to them in Prison for debt; and blamed me if I denied any one.
§. 23. Alas! I know many poor Widows, and others, that think they have now lost a Mother, and are left desolate, whom I could wish some that are able would help, instead of the help which they have lost.
§. 23. Alas! I know many poor Widows, and oothers, that think they have now lost a Mother, and are left desolate, whom I could wish some that are able would help, instead of the help which they have lost.
§. 24. She was much more liberal to many of my own poor kindred than I was: But her way was not to maintain them in idleness, but to take children, and set them to some Trade, or help them out of some special straits.