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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.
3. When some inhabitants of the City of Worcester were earnest with me to help them to an able Minister, Mr. Baker then living in Kent had about an hundred pound per annum: and when at my motion he was readily willing to take a great charge in Worcester, upon a promise from two men to make the maintenance fifty pounds a year ⟨p. 231⟩by a voluntary Contribution, of the continuance of which he had no security; his Wife was a promoter, and no discourager of his self-denial, and never tempte• him to l••k after greater things. And afterward, when I was afraid lest the smallness and uncertainty of the means, together with his discouragements from some of his people, might have occasioned his remove; and have heard of richer places mentioned to him, as he still answered that he had enough, and minded not removing without necessity; so was she ever of the same mind, and still seconded and confirmed him in such resolutions, even to follow Gods work while they had a competency of their own, and to mind no more.
3. When some inhabitants of the City of Worcester were earnest with me to help them to an able Minister, Mr. Baker then living in Kent had about an hundred pound per annum: and when at my motion he was readily willing to take a great charge in Worcester, upon a promise from two men to make the maintenance fifty pounds a year ⟨p. 231⟩by a voluntary Contribution, of the continuance of which he had no security; his Wife was a promoter, and no discourager of his self-denyall, and never tempte• him to l••k after greater things. And afterward, when I was afraid lest the smalness and uncertainty of the means, together with his discour•gements from some of his people, might have occasioned his remove; and have heard of richer places mentioned to him, as he still answ•red that he had enough, and minded not removing without necessity; so was she ever of the same mind, and still seconded and confirmed him in such resolutions, even to follow Gods work while they had a competency of their own, and to mind no more.