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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
Chapter 8: Of her Mental Qualifications, and her Infirmities.
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Much less did her sufferings from the times distemper her. She hath blamed me for naming in print my Losses, Imprisonment, and other sufferings by the Bishops, as being over selfish querulousness, when I should rather with wonder be thankful for the great mercy we yet enjoyed. Though I think I never mentioned them as over-sensible of the sufferings, but as a necessary evincing of the nature of the cause, and as part of the necessary history or matter of fact in order to decide it. She as much disliked the silencing of the Ministers, as any; but she did not love to hear it much complained of, save as the public loss; nor to hear Conformists talked against as a Party; nor the faults of the conscientious sort of them aggravated in a siding factious manner.
Much less did her sufferings from the times distemper her. She hath blamed me for naming in print my Losses, Imprisonment, and other sufferings by the Bishops, as being over selfish queralousness, when I should rather with wonder be thankful for the great mercy we yet enjoyed. Though I think I never mentioned them as over-sensible of the sufferings, but as a necessary evincing of the nature of the cause, and as part of the necessary history or matter of fact in order to decide it. She as much disliked the silencing of the Ministers, as any; but she did not love to hear it much complained of, save as the publick loss; nor to hear Conformists talkt against as a Party; nor the faults of the conscientious sort of them aggravated in a siding factious manner.
But 1. she was prone to over-love her Relations, and those good people (poor as much as rich) whom she thought most upright. The love was good, but the degree was too passionate.
2. She over-earnestly desired their spiritual welfare. If these whom she over-loved, had not been as good, and done as well as she would have them, in innocent behaviour, in piety, and (if rich) in liberality, it over-troubled her, and she could not bear it.