A26870:35
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.
§. 2. A Religious Maid that waited on her, taking ⟨p. 5⟩king notice of this (for she kept all her matters so secret to her self, as was her great hurt all her life) acquainted her Mother with it; and when it would be hid no longer, but her frequent Closet-prayers were sometimes over-heard, and her changed course of life discerned, her Mother (who as far as I could discern, before loved her least of her three children) began to esteem her as her Darling; and all her Religious Friends and Neighbours, were glad of so sudden and great a change.
§. 3. I will here give you one of her self-judging Papers, which I find since her death, upon her then sad convictions. When I had on Rom. 8. 9. told them how it may be known whether we have Christs Spirit or not, she thus repeated the signs with her self-condemnation.
Mark 1. The Spirit of Christ is the Author of the Scriptures, and therefore suiteth your disposition to it, and guideth you by it.