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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.
And to encourage you, I will tell you by my own experience, what benefit may be expected from this kind of delight, agreeable ⟨p. 56⟩to Davids and our Friends experience.
1. By this means my life hath been almost a constant pleasure.
2. This pleasure hath much upheld me under almost constant bodily infirmity and pain.
3. It hath made all my sufferings from men, and crosses in the world to be tolerable and very easy to me; had not Gods Word been my delight, I had lived uncomfortably, in constant pains and sorrows, and had perished in my trouble.
3. It hath made all my sufferings from men, and crosses in the world to be tolerable and very easie to me; had not Gods Word been my delight, I had lived uncomfortably, in constant pains and sorrows, and had perished in my trouble.