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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69538	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.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1298; ESTC R5056	51,178	102

will confine it also to those special gifts and graces in which she was eminent that I may not take you up with a description of a Christian as such and tell you only of that good which she held but in common with all other Christians And if any thing that I shall say were unknown to any Reader that knew her let them know that it is because they knew her but distantly imperfectly or by reports and that my advantage of near acquaintance did give me a just assurance of what I say The Graces which I discerned to be eminent in her were these 1. She was eminent in her contempt of the Pride and Pomp and Pleasure and Vanity of the World and in her great averseness to all these She had an honest impatiency of the life which is common among the rich and vain-glorious in the world Voluptuousness and Sensuality Excess of Drinking Cards and Dice she could not endure what ever names of good house-keeping or seemly deportment they borrowed for a mask In her Apparel she went below the garb of others of her rank indeed in such plainness as did not notifie her degree but yet in such a grave and decent habit as notified her Sobriety and humility She was a Stranger to Pastimes and no Companion for Time-wasters as knowing that Persons so near eternity that have so short a life and so great a work have no time to spare Accordingly in her latter dayes she did as those that grow wise by experience of the vanity of the world retire from it and cast it off before it cast off her She betook her self to the society of a people that were low in the world of humble serious upright lives though such as had been wholly strangers to her And among these poor inferiour strangers she lived in contentent and quietness desiring rather to converse with those that would help her to redeem the time in prayer and edifying conference than with those that would grieve her by consuming it on their lusts 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 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 4. She was very impartial in her judgment about particular cases being the same in judging of the case of a child and a stranger and no interest of children or other relations could make her swerve from an equal judgment 5. She very much preferred the spiritual welfare of her children before their temporal looking on the former as the true felicity and on the later without it but as a pleasant voluntary misery 6. Since I was acquainted with her I alwayes found her very ready to good works according to her power And when she hath seen a poor man come to me that she conjectured solicited me for relief she hath reprehended me for keeping the case to my self and not inviting her to contribute And I could never descern that she thought any thing so well bestowed as that which relieved the necessities of the poor that were honest and industrious 7. She had the wonderful mercy of a man-like Christian patient spirit under all afflictions that did befal her and under the multitude of troublesome businesses that would have even distracted an impatient mind Though sudden anger was the sin that she much confest her self and therefore thought she wanted patience yet I have oft wondered to see her bear up with the same alacrity and quietness when Jobs messengers have brought her the tidings that would have overwhelmed an impatient soul When Law-suits and the great afflictions of her children have assaulted her like successive Waves which I feared would have born her into the deep if not devoured all her peace she sustained all as if no great considerable change had been made against her having the same God and the same Christ and promises and hope from which she fetcht such real comfort and support as shewed a real serious faith 8. She was alwayes apt to put a good interpretation upon Gods providences like a right Believer that having the spirit of Adoption perceiveth Fatherly love in all She would not easily be perswaded that God meant her any harm She was not apt to hearken to the enemy that accuseth God and his wayes to man as he accuseth man and his actions to God She was none of those that are suspicious of God and are still concluding death and ruine from all that he doth to them and are gathering wrath from mis-interpreted expressions of his love who weep because of the smoak before they can be warmed by the fire Yet God is good to Israel aud it shall go well with them that fear before him Psa 73. 1. Eccles 8. 12 13. were her conclusions from the sharpest providences She expected the morning in the darkest night and judged not of the end by the beginning but was alwayes confident if she could but entitle God in the case that the issue would be good She was not a murmurer against God nor one that contended with her Maker nor one that created calamity to her self by a self-troubling unquiet mind She patiently bore what God laid upon her and made it not heavier by the additions of uncomfortable prognosticks and misgiving or repining thoughts She had a great confidence in God that he was doing good to her and hers in all and where at present she saw any matter of grief she much supported her soul with a belief that God would remove and overcome it in due time 9. She was not troubled that ever I discerned with doubtings about her interest in Christ and about her own Justification and Salvation but whether she