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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26870	A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and wife of Richard Baxter ... : there is also published the character of her mother, truly described in her published funeral sermon, reprinted at her daughters request, called, The last work of a believer, his passing-prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ, to be received by him.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1194; ESTC R1213	62,400	127

A BREVIATE OF THE LIFE OF MARGARET The Daughter of FRANCIS CHARLTON of Apply in Shropshire Esq And Wife of RICHARD BAXTER For the use of all but especially of their Kindred There is also Published the Character of her Mother truly described in her Published Funeral Sermon Reprinted at her Daughters Request called The Last Work of a Believer His passing-prayer recommending his departing Spirit to Christ to be received by him LONDON Printed for B. Simmons at the Three Golden Cocks at the West-end of St. Pauls 1681. TO THE READER Reader GOD having called away to his Blessed Rest and Glory the Spirit of the most dear Companion of these last Nineteen Years of my Life or near I found in her Last Will a request that I should reprint five Hundred of her Mothers Funeral-Sermons written by me 1661 being now out of Press called The last Work of a Believer his Passing Prayer c. Not only her very great Love and Honour of her remembred Mother moved her to it but the apprehension of the Vsefulness of that subject to Dying Christians a Subject about which her Soul was awakened the more by the Death of many Friends and excellent Christians taken away this Year And the day somewhat excited her for it was written by her on Decem. 30 the same day which she kept secretly as an Anniversary Remembrance of the Sentence of Death from which she had been delivered and the same day when our dear Friend Mr. Corbet lay dying And I finde some expectations of her own speedy Death had some hand in it Being thus obliged by her Request mine own Affections urged me to premise this Breviate of her own Life Written I confess under the power of melting Grief and therefore perhaps with the less prudent judgment but not with the less but the more Truth For passionate Weakness poureth out all which greater Prudence may conceal Conscionable mens Histories are true but if they be also wise they tell us but some part of Truth concealing that which would do harm and which the depraved world cannot bear without abusing it But we that are less wise tell all the Truth too little regarding how men will receive it And hence comes all History which hath not evidence equal to natural to be of less credit than most men think while bad men lie and good men leave out so much of the Truth as makes the rest to be as another thing than altogether it would appear And having purposed to write this Breviate concerning my dear Wife God having the same year taken away two more of my ancient Family I wrote a Breviate of their Lives also One was my excellent holy Mother-in-Law Mary the Daughter of Sir Thomas Hunks Widow to my dear Father She was one of the most humble mortified holy persons that ever I knew and lived in longing to be with Christ till she was an Hundred years old wanting three or four in full understanding and at last rejoycing in the triumphant frequent hearing and repeating the 91 Psalm The other was my old Friend and Housekeeper Jane Matthews who lived in pious humble Virginity with eminent worth to about Seventy six or Seventy seven years and Died of mere decay without considerable Pain or Sickness about a Month or six Weeks before my Wife To these I added a fourth a Breviate of the Life and Death of that worthy Mother of my Wife as to the time since I knew her But I have cast by all these later three and much of the first by the Counsel of wise Friends as things which they think that Strangers will not make so great a matter 〈◊〉 Love and Nearness made me do And I must 〈◊〉 that God's Image is the same thing on all his Children and when you have described one you have described all as to the Essentials But as in Faces and bodily Strength they so much differ in Integrals Degrees and Accidents that the Lives of some are far more Exemplary and Honourable to Christ their Lord and their Christian Profession than others are And some are so much blemished by Errours Soul-Diseases and miscarriages of Life yea and injuries to the Church of Christ by their carnal Animosities and Divisions as rendereth the Examples of the more wise holy loving and peaceable and patient Christians the more conspicuous and honourable by the difference On this account finding young people naturally much delighted in History and that for want of better abundance are quickly corrupted and ensnared by Tale-books Romances Play-books and false or hurtful History I have long thought that true and useful History is of great use to prevent such evils and to many profitable ends And that to young people it is very profitable to begin with the Scripture-History and next the Lives of holy persons and next to read the true Church-Historians and the History of our Native Country Melchior Adamus in Germany Beza in his Icones Thuanus and many others in France have done the Church this way great service by a due Commemoration of Exemplary persons And such as Junius Scultetus Thuanus and others who have recorded the chief passages of their own Lives have done a profitable work though Mom'es will say They publish their own Praise in Pride There is no saying or doing any 〈◊〉 the world which bad men will not reproach or put an evil face on or make an ill use of to themselves But he that reads such Lives as Bucholtzers melanchtons and their like and then readeth their Church-Histories will the better discern that they were no Liars As it is Satans work to counterwork Christ by the Abuse and Perversion of his own Ordinances and Means as to disgrace Revelation by feigned Revelation and Spirituality by false pretendings to the Spirit and Magistracy by wicked Magistrates and the Ministry by worldly and ungodly Ministers and Christianity by hypocrite false Christians so he doth enervate the credit and use of History by false History And how great use he hath made of this to promote Popery he that readeth Jacobus de Voragine and many other of their Legends or Saints Lives and Miracles and such as Tympius and many more besides their voluminous deceitful Histories of Church Popes and Councils may quickly finde And being my self a vehement Hater of false History I beg Pardon of the Reader for interposing this Digression Lately writing of the Iudgment of Cranmer and others as cited by Dr. Stillingfleet in his Irenicon about Episcopacy that the Reader might know where to find it I added in a Parenthesis that it was left out in Dr. Burnet's Book For this I am accused as disgracing him and his Book falsly I here do him right and confess it was ill done of me to judge so hastily without better tryal But I must tell him wherein my fault consisted Not in accusing him I take it not to be a fault in D. B. that he hath omitted many things that are in Fuller Fox and others I had