A godly pattern for all women: being a funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman Mrs. Margaret Baxter, the wife of that reverend Minister of the Gospel, Mr. Richard Baxter; by that godly divine Mr. John How, Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; upon thi text, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. With her character and Christian deportment in her sickness, and serious ejaculations on her death-bed, left as a pattern to her sex. She dy'd the 28th of June, 1681. With two prayers, one before and another after sermon.

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  • A godly pattern for all women: being a funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman Mrs. Margaret Baxter, the wife of that reverend Minister of the Gospel, Mr. Richard Baxter; by that godly divine Mr. John How, Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; upon thi text, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. With her character and Christian deportment in her sickness, and serious ejaculations on her death-bed, left as a pattern to her sex. She dy'd the 28th of June, 1681. With two prayers, one before and another after sermon.
  • Funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman, Mrs. M. Baxter.
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Imprint
[London]: Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, in West-smithfield, [1681]
Publication year
1681-1681
ESTC No.
R482973
Grub Street ID
125294
Description
[24] p. ; 8⁰
Note
A greatly abridged version of John Howe's "A funeral sermon on the decease of that worthy gentlewoman, Mrs. M. Baxter ..." Internal evidence suggests a date of 1681--Durham University Library Manuscript Sheaf Catalogue.

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Signatures: A? B?.Person as subject Baxter, Margaret Charlton, 1636-1681 -- Early works to 1800. Title as subject Bible. N.T. Corinthians, 2nd, V, 8 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800. Subject Funeral sermons -- 17th century.

Sermons, English -- 17th century.