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The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to…
The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ to be received by Him / prepared for the funerals of Mary the widow first of Francis Charlton Esq. and after of Thomas Hanmer, Esq., and partly preached at St. Mary Magdalens Church in Milk-Street, London, and now, at the desire of her daughter, reprinted by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by B. Griffin for B. Simmons, 1682
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2. She was very prudent in her converse and affairs (allowing for the passion of her sex and age); and so escaped much of the inconveniences that else in so great and manifold businesses would have overwhelmed her: As a good man will guide his affairs with discretion, Psalm 112. 5. so discretion will preserve him, and understanding will keep him, to deliver him from the way of the evil man, who leaveth the paths of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness, Proverbs 2. 11, 12, 13.
3. She was seriously Religious, without partiality, or any taint of siding or faction, or holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons: I never heard speak against men, or for men, as they differed in some small and tolerable things: She impartially heard any Minister that was able, and godly, and sound in the main, and could bear with the weaknesses Ministers when they were faithful: Instead of owning the names or opinions of Prelatical, Presbyterian, Independent, or such like, she took up with the name and profession of a Christian, and loved a Christian as a Christian, without much respect to such different tolerable opinions. Instead of troubling her self with needless scruples, and making up a Religion of opinions and singularities, she studied Faith and Godliness, and lived upon the common certain truths, and well-known duties, which have been the old and beaten way, by which the universal Church of Christ hath gone to heaven in former Ages.
3. She was seriously Religious, without partiallity, or any taint of siding or faction, or holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons: I never heard speak against men, or for men, as they differed in some small and tolerable things: She impartially heard any Minister that was able, and godly, and sound in the main, and could bear with the weaknesses Ministers when they were faithful: Instead of owning the names or opinions of Prelatical, Presbyterian, Independent, or such like, she took up with the name and profession of a Christian, and loved a Christian as a Christian, without much respect to such different tolerable opinions. Instead of troubling her self with needless scruples, and making up a Religion of opinions and singularities, she studied Faith and Godliness, and lived upon the common certain truths, and well-known duties, which have been the old and beaten way, by which the universal Church of Christ hath gone to heaven in former Ages.