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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

is a good friend But Art and Industry are necessary to the improvement And no wonder when we fetch not the help and comfort which we might have from God from Christ himself from Heaven from Scripture for want of improving skill and industry O how easie is it when our friends are taken from us to say Thus and thus I might and should have used them rather than so to use them while we have them I hope God will help me to make some better use of thee while we are together and at a distance O let not a hearty request to God for each other be any day wanting Dear heart the time of our mutual help is short O let us use it accordingly but the time of our reaping the fruit of this and all holy endeavours and preparatory mercies will be endless Yet a little while and we shall be both with Christ. He is willing of us and I hope we are willing of him and of his Grace though the flesh be weak I am absent but God is still with you your daily Guide and Keeper and I hope you will labour to make him your daily Comfort And now you have none to divert and hinder you to say When I awake I am still with thee And when you are up I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved And when Thoughts crowd in In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy Comforts delight my Soul And when Thoughts would trouble and perplex you My Meditation of him shall be sweet and I will delight in the Lord. And when your Wants and Duty call you to him It is good for me to draw nigh to God All other comforts will be as the things are which we take comfort in that is Helpful if the things be helpful and used but as Helps Hurtful if the things be hurtful or hurtfully used Vain if the things be vain Short if the things be transitory and durable if the things are durable to us And this is the chief comfort which you and I must have in one another that is as helpful towards God and as our converse with him will be durable The Lord forgive my great unprofitableness and the sin that brought me under any disabilities to answer your earnest and honest desires of greater helps than I afford you and help me yet to amend it towards you But though my Soul be faulty and dull and my strength of Nature fail be sure that he will be a thousand fold better to thee even here than such crooked feeble useless things as is From Hampden Thy R. B. CHAP. IX Of her Bodily Infirmities and her Death § 1. HER diseased frightfulness and many former sicknesses I have mentioned before A great pain of the Head held her from her youth two or three days every Fortnight or little more and upon every thing that did irritate the matter she had a constant straitness in the Lungs a great incapacity of much exercise motion or any heating thing Ever since her sickness 1659. she hath lived in an ill-conceited fear of distraction which greatly hurt her It was because she had an Aunt long so deceased and her Parents were naturally passionate and her spirits over-quick and her blood thin and Mobile and though wisdom hid it from others in her converse she felt the trouble of her own mind in things as aforesaid that much displeased her and so lived in a constant fear which tended to have brought on her what she feared But her understanding was so far from failing that it was higher and clearer than other peoples but like the treble strings of a Lute strained up to the highest sweet but in continual danger § 2. About three years ago by the mis-perswasion of a friend drinking against the Collick a spoonful of powdered Ginger every morning near a quarter of a year together and then falling into some over-whelming thoughts besides it overthrew her Head for a few days but God in great mercy soon restored her § 3. Ever since that time her Head-ach abated and she complained of a pain in one of her Breasts and her uncurable timerousness setled her in a conceit that she should have a Cancer which I saw no great cause to fear but she could neither endure to hear that it was none or that it was but in fearing uncertainty prepared constantly for a sad death And several Friends Neighbours and Relations lately dying of Cancers increased her fear but she seemed to be prepared cheerfully to undergo it § 4. The many and weekly rumors of Plots Firings Massacres c. much increased this fear as is aforesaid and the death of very many Neighbours young strong and excellent Christians of greatest use and many near friends did greatly add to her sadness and expectations of death But little of this was seen to any she purposely carried it pleasantly and as merrily to others when she was troubled § 5. The fears of a Cancer made her take the Waters for Physick often and she kept down her body so in her diet that about five Ounces of Milk or Milk and Water with a little Chocolate in it morning and night and about one or two bits at Dinner was her diet for many years § 6. At last about ten weeks before her sickness almost all her pain went out of her Breast and all fixed in a constant pain upon the right Kidney and with the pain her Urine stopt that about four parts of five ceased for about ten weeks She divers days drunk Barnet-Waters but I think they were the last occasion of her sickness and too much tincture of Amber which work't too powerfully on her Brain and suddenly cast her into strong disturbance and deliration in which though the Physicians with great kindness and care did omit nothing in their power she died the 12th day She fell sick on Friday Iune 3. 1681. and died Iune 14. § 7. Though her understanding never perfectly returned she had a very strong remembrance of the affecting passages of her life from her childhood Mrs. Corbet whom she dearly loved and had newly got into the house to be her companion with others standing by she cried out to me My mother is in Heaven and Mr. Corbet is in Heaven and thou and I shall be in Heaven And even in her last weakness was perswaded of her salvation § 8. She oft shewed us that her soul did work towards God crying out complaining of her Head Lord make me know what I have done f●r which I undergo all this Lord I submit God chooseth best for me She desired me to pray by her and seemed quietly to join to the end She heard divers Psalms and a Chapter read and repeated part and sung part of a Psalm her self The last words that she spake were My God help me Lord have mercy upon me § 9. God had been so many years training her up under the