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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
Chapter 3: The workings of her soul in and after this Sickness.
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.
§. 10. And it is a useful note that I find added to this by her.
If my trouble be for my sin, 1. My care will be more for the removing of my sin, than of the affliction. 2. And if God should take away the affliction, it would not content me, unless sin be taken away, and my heart amended. ⟨p. 31⟩3. If it be sin that I am troubled for, it will be my great care not to sin in my trouble. 4. And if it be my sin that troubleth me, I have the more cause to submit to Gods hand, and silently bear the punishment of my iniquity; it shameth murmuring, when we truly look on sin the cause, though it bring the wholesome sorrow of repentance. 5. And if I mourn for fear lest God be departing, I should seek him, and cleave the closer to him, and not depart from God, and then he will not depart from me.
If my trouble be for my sin, 1. My care will be more for the removing of my sin, than of the affliction. 2. And if God should take away the affliction, it would not content me, unless sin be taken away, and my heart amended. ⟨p. 31⟩3. If it be sin that I am troubled for, it will be my great care not to sin in my trouble. 4. And if it be my sin that troubleth me, I have the more cause to submit to Gods hand, and silently bear the punishment of my iniquity; it shameth murmuring, when we truly look on sin the cause, though it bring the wholsome sorrow of repentance. 5. And if I mourn for fear lest God be departing, I should seek him, and cleave the closer to him, and not depart from God, and then he will not depart from me.
§. 11. I will conclude this Chapter with a Country Poem of her honest Kinsman Mr. Eleazer Careswell, of Sheffnall in Shropshire, whom I never knew to Poetrize but now that tender love and passion taught him; it signifieth these, though it want the flowery part. Her danger of death so near to her conversion, was very grievous to him.