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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.
§. 8. And this may greatly warn us to fear and avoid self-willedness: I mean a will of our own that runs before the will of God, and is too much set on any thing which God hath not promised, and knows not how to bear a frustration or denial, but saith as Rachel, Give it me, or I die. We must learn to follow, and not to lead, and to say, The will of the Lord be done; not mine Lord, but thine; and in every estate to be content. There is no rest but in Gods will.
§. 9. Yet this tells us, that God dealeth better with his weak servants than they deserve, and turneth that oft times to their good, which they deserved should have been their greatest suffering.
§. 10. This History (and my great experience) saith, that there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother, Prov. 18. 24. and that it was Gods spirit ⟨p. 99⟩that said, Prov. 27. 10. Thy own friend, and thy fathers friend forsake not: neither go into thy brothers house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother that is far off.