A26870:36
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.
§. 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.
Judgm. 1. I fear then I have not the Spirit of Christ; for I yet feel no love to Gods word, nor closure with it as suitable to me, but I am questioning the truth of it, or at best quarrelling with it.
Mark 2. The Spirit of Christ is from heaven, from God our Father, and leadeth us upward unto him. Its work is spiritual, of heavenly tendency, making us cry Abba Father, and working the heart by uniting love to God.