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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
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.
CHAP. IX. Of her Bodily Infirmities, and her Death.
§. 1. HER diseased frightfulness, and many former sicknesses, I have mentioned before. A great pain of the Head held her from her youth, two or three days every Fortnight, or little more; and upon every thing that did irritate the matter, she had a constant straitness in the Lungs, a great incapacity of much exercise, motion, or any heating thing. Ever since her sickness, 1659. she hath lived in an ill-conceited fear of distraction, which greatly hurt her; It was because she had an Aunt long so, deceased, and her Parents were naturally passionate, and her spirits over-quick, and her blood thin and Mobile; and though wisdom hid it from others in her converse, she felt the trouble of her own mind in things, as aforesaid, that much displeased her; and so lived in a constant fear, which tended to have brought on her what she feared: But her understanding was so far from failing, that it was higher and clearer than other peoples; but like the treble strings of a Lute, strained up to the highest, sweet, but in continual danger.
§. 2. About three years ago, by the mis-persuasion of a friend, drinking against the Colic a spoonful of powdered Ginger every morning, near a quarter of a year together, and then falling into some over-whelming thoughts; besides it overthrew her Head for a few days, but God, in great mercy, soon restored her.
§. 2. About three years ago, by the mis-perswasion of a friend, drinking against the Collick a spoonful of powdered Ginger every morning, near a quarter of a year together, and then falling into some over-whelming thoughts; besides it overthrew her Head for a few days, but God, in great mercy, soon restored her.