A26870:226
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.
§. 8. She oft showed us, that her soul did work towards God, crying out (complaining of her Head), Lord make me know what I have done, f•r which I undergo all this. Lord, I submit; God chooseth best for me. She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. The last words that she spake were, My God help me, Lord have mercy upon me.
§. 8. She oft shewed us, that her soul did work towards God, crying out (complaining of her Head), Lord make me know what I have done, f•r which I undergo all this. Lord, I submit; God chooseth best for me. She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. The last words that she spake were, My God help me, Lord have mercy upon me.
§. 9. God had been so many years training her up under the expectations and preparations for death, as made the case of her soul less grievous to me, as ⟨p. 93⟩no way doubting of her salvation; and knowing that a distracting Fever, or a Frenzy, or an Inflammation, or disturbance of the Animal Spirits, or Brain, or an Impostume may befall the best as soon as the worst. I thank God that she was never under any Melancholy, which tempted her to any of those doleful evils, which many Score, I think, that have been with me (of several ways of education) have been sadly tempted to. She near 19. year lived with me cheerful, wise, and a very useful life, in constant Love, and Peace, and Concord, except our differing Opinions about tri••al occurrences, or our disputing or differing mode of talk.
§. 9. God had been so many years training her up under the expectations and preparations for death, as made the case of her soul less grievous to me, as ⟨p. 93⟩