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A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity…A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity…
A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.
London: printed by R.W. for Nev. Simmons, 1660
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.
It is not the history of the Life of this precious servant of the Lord which I intend to give you: (for I was not m•ny years acquainted with her:) but only some passages, which either upon my certain knowledge, or her own Diurnal of her course, or the most credible rest imony of her most intimate judicious godly friends, I may boldly publish ⟨p. 227⟩as true, and imitable in this untoward distempered generation.
It is not the history of the Life of this precious servant of the Lord which I intend to give you: (for I was not m•ny years acquainted with her:) but only some passages, which either upon my certain knowledge, or her own Diurnall of her course, or the most credible rest imony of her most intimate judicious godly friends, I may boldly publish ⟨p. 227⟩as true, and imitable in this untoward distempered generation.
She was born Novemb. 1634. in Southwark near London: the only child of Mr. John Godeschalk, alias, Godscall. Her Father dying in her Child-hood, she was left an Orphan to the Chamber of London. Her Mother after married Mr. Isaac Barton, with whom she had the benefit of Religious Education. But between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called The Saints Everlasting Rest, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to set her heart o• God, and to seek salvation with her chiefest care: From that time forward she was a more constant, diligent, serious hearer of the ablest Ministers in London▪ rising early, and going far to hear them on the Week-days, waiting on God for his confirming grace in the use of those Ordinances, which ⟨p. 228⟩empty unexperienced hypocrites are easily tempted to despise: The Sermons which she constantly wrote, she diligently repeated at home for the benefit of others; and every week read over some of those that she had heard long before, that the fruit of them might be retained and renewed: it being not novelty that she minded.