A26870:254
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.
§. 17. There are some great men who know their own names, who (as I have most credible information) have, to greater than themselves, represented me not only as covetous, but as mutable for my Marriage.
To whom I now give this satisfaction. 1. As to Covetousness, my Vindication is a matter unfit for the ears of the world, if Reverend mens backbitings (the same that troubles our common peace) did not make it partly necessary. Through Gods mercy, and her prudent care, I lived in plenty, and so do still, though not without being greatly beholden to divers friends; and I am not poorer than when I Married: but it is not by Marriage, nor by any thing that was hers before.
2. And as to my mutability. Whereas one of them reports that I said to him, that I thought the Marriage of Ministers had so great inconveniences, that though necessity made it lawful, yet it was but lawful; that is, to be avoided as far as lawfully we may. I answer, that I did say so to him; and I never changed my judgment; yea, my Wife lived and died in the same mind. And I here freely advise all Ministers that have not some kind of necessity, to think of these few reasons among many.