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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27061	Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Treatise of death.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1442; ESTC R6576	84,751	206

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 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 4. Her very speech and behaviour did so manifest meekness and humility that in a little converse with her it might easily be discerned 5. She thought nothing too mean for her that belonged to her in her family and relation no employment food c. saying often that What God had made her duty was not too low a work for her And indeed when we know once that it is a work that God sets us upon it signifieth much forgetfulness of him and our selves if we think it too base or think our selves too good to stoop to it 6. No Neighbour did seem too mean or poor for her familiar converse if they were but willing 7. She had a true esteem and chearful love for the meanest of her Husbands Relations and much rejoyced in her comfort in his kindred recording it among her experienced mercies 2. She was very constant and diligent in doing her part of family duties teaching all the inferiours of her family and labouring to season them with principles of holiness and admonishing them of their sin and danger never failing on the Lords Day at night to hear them read the Scriptures and recite their Catechisms when publick duty and all other family duty was ended and in her Husbands absence praying with them How much the imitation of such examples would conduce to the sanctifying of families is easie to be apprehended 3. In secret duty she was very constant and lived much in those two great soul-advancing works Meditation and Prayer in which she would not admit of interruptions This inward holy diligence was it that maintained spiritual life within which is the spring of outward acceptable works When communion with God and daily labour upon our own hearts is laid aside or negligently and remisly followed grace languisheth first within and then unfruitfulness if not disorders and scandals appear without 4. Her Love to the Lord Jesus was evidenced by her great affection to his Ordinances and Wayes and Servants A very hearty Love she manifested to those on whom the Image of God did appear even the poorest and meanest as well as the rich or eminent in the world Nor did a difference in lesser matters or any tolerable mistakes alienate her affections from them 5. She was a Christian of much plainness simplicity singleness of heart far from a subtil erafty dissembling frame also from loquacity or ostentation And the world was very low in her eyes to which she was long crucified and on which she looked as a lifeless thing Sensuality and pampering the flesh she much loathed When she was invited to feasts she would oft complain that they occasioned a difficulty in maintaining a sence of the presence of God whose company in all her company she preferred 6. She was a very careful esteemer and redeemer of her time At home in her family the works of her general and particular calling took her up When necessary business and greater duties gave way she was seldom without a Book in her hand or some edifying discourse in her mouth if there were opportunity And abroad she was very weary of barren company that spent the time in common chatt and dry discourses 7. She used good company Practically and profitably making use of what she heard for her own spiritual advantage When I understood out of her Diary that she wrote down some of my familiar discourses with serious application to her self it struck exceeding deep to my heart how much I have sinned all my dayes since I undertook the person of a Minister of Christ by the slightness and unprofitableness of my discourse and how exceeding careful Ministers should be of their words and how deliberately wisely and seriously they should speak about the things of God and how diligently they should take all fit opportunities to that end when we know not how silent hearers are affected with what we say For ought we know there may be some that will write down what we say in their Books or hearts or both And God and conscience write down all 8. In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practise Her course was when she read the Scriptures to gather out passages and sort and refer them to their several uses as some that were fit subjects for her Meditations some for encouragement to prayer and other duties Promises suited to various conditions and wants as her papers shew And for other Books she would meddle with none but the sound and practical and had no itch after the empty Books which make ostentation of Novelty and which Opinionists are now so taken with nor did she like writing or preaching in envy and strife And of good Books she chose to read but few and those very often over that all might be well digested Which is a course for private Christians that tends to avoid luxuriancy and make them sincere and solid and established 9. She had the great blessing of a tender conscience She did not slightly pass over small sins without penitent observation Her Diary records her trouble when causelesly she had neglected any Ordinance or was hindered by Rain or small occasions or if she had overslept her self and lost a Morning-exercise in London or came too late or if she were distracted in secret duty And if she mist of a Fast through mis-information and disappointments and found not her heart duly sensible of the loss that also she recorded So did she her stirrings of anger and her very angry looks resolving to take more heed against them Though all ought not to spend so much time in writing down their failings yet all should watch and renew repentance 10. She was very solicitous for the souls of her friends As for instance her Brothers in Law over whom she exercised a Motherly care instructing them and watching over them and telling them of miscarriages and counselling them Causing them to keep a constant course of reading the holy Scriptures and meditating on it as far as she could Causing them to learn many Chapters without Book and to read other good Books in season Earnestly praying for them in particular Much desiring one or both should be Ministers And when her Father-in-law appointed the eldest to go to France she was much troubled for fear of his miscarriage among strangers especially those of the Romish Way 11. She was a serious Mourner for the sins of the time and place she lived