A26870:219
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.
§. 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.
§. 3. Ever since that time her Head-ache abated, and she complained of a pain in one of her Breasts, and her uncurable timorousness settled her in a conceit that she should have a Cancer (which I saw no great cause to fear); but she could neither endure to hear that it was none, or that it was; but in fearing uncertainty, prepared constantly for a sad death: And several Friends, Neighbours and Relations lately dying of Cancers, increased her fear: but she seemed to be prepared cheerfully to undergo it.