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Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…
Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 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 tempted him to look 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 ⟨p. 148⟩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 by a voluntary Contribution, of the continuance of which he had no security; his Wife was a promoter, and no discourager of his self denyal, and never tempted him to lookafter greater things. And afterward, when I was afraid lest the smalness 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 ⟨p. 148⟩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.