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A true believer's choice and pleasure Instanced in the exemplary life of Mrs Mary…
A true believer's choice and pleasure Instanced in the exemplary life of Mrs Mary Cox, the late wife of Doctor Thomas Cox. Preached for her funeral by Richard Baxter.A true believer's choice and pleasure Instanced in the exemplary life of Mrs Mary Coxe, the late wife of Doctor Thomas Coxe. Preached for her funeral by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.E., 1680
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.
The words which I heard but yesterday from the mouth of your Brother in discourse, were such as I doubt can be said of few, that in so many Years, from the hour of her Marriage, to her Death, she was never known to do one disobliging action, or speak one disobliging word, of or to any one of her Husbands Kindred or Relations.
Had it seemed meet to you, or to your worthy and ingenious Son, and your pious Daughter (the true image of her Mother) to have been the Describer of the Soul and Life, of this Exemplary Saint, how much more fully could you have done it, than I, that was so much less acquainted with her.
She is gone home, and you and I are at the door; The Lord give us so to live by Faith on the Promise and Love of God, and the things unseen, that thence we may daily fetch our ruling Motives, and stablishing Consolations, and not from a transitory deceitful world▪ and following Christ and his Saints under the Cross, may with them possess the incorruptible Crown; and be found at his Call among those that love his appearing, and be for ever with the Lord. Amen, Amen.