A True Believers Choice and Pleasure, Title page – Errata
A True Believer's CHOICE AND PLEASURE.
Inſtanced in The Exemplary LIFE OF Mrs MARY COXE, The Late Wife of Doctor THOMAS COXE.
Preached for her Funeral By RICHARD BAXTER.
Prov. 10.7.
The memory of the juſt ſhall be bleſſed, but the name of the wicked ſhall rot.
LONDON, Printed by R.E. in the Year, 1680.
To my Worthy and much Honoured FRIEND, Dr. THOMAS COXE.
SIR,
THough your great Kindneſs and Care of the health of me and mine, much oblige me to you, and your Perſonal Worth much more, and your worthy Children command my great Reſpect and Love; yet none of theſe ſhould have moved me to ſay a word of all that I have ſaid of your deceaſed Wife, which I had not verily believed to be true: And it was Gods Grace in her, which much more commanded it, than all my debt to you and yours.
She was ſo Exemplary, as that I think it my Duty for the good of others, to make this Publication of her Character, and of this Sermon.
But one great Defect is here to be notified to the Reader, That almoſt all her ſecret way of Duty, and particular Converſe is omitted, which you that were ſtill with her, could have deſcribed; For I thought meet to ſay no more than I either knew my ſelf, or was obvious and known to many.
The words which I heard but yeſterday from the mouth of your Brother in diſcourſe, were ſuch as I doubt can be ſaid of few, that in ſo many Years, from the hour of her Marriage, to her Death, ſhe was never known to do one diſobliging action, or ſpeak one diſobliging word, of or to any one of her Husbands Kindred or Relations.
Had it ſeemed meet to you, or to your worthy and ingenious Son, and your pious Daughter (the true image of her Mother) to have been the Deſcriber of the Soul and Life, of this Exemplary Saint, how much more fully could you have done it, than I, that was ſo much leſs acquainted with her.
She is gone home, and you and I are at the door; The Lord give us ſo to live by Faith on the Promiſe and Love of God, and the things unſeen, that thence we may daily fetch our ruling Motives, and ſtabliſhing Conſolations, and not from a tranſitory deceitful world▪ and following Chriſt and his Saints under the Croſs, may with them poſſeſs the incorruptible Crown; and be found at his Call among thoſe that love his appearing, and be for ever with the Lord. Amen, Amen.
Novemb. 19. 1679.
ERRATA.
PAge 8. line 1. for Angel read Angels. p. 16. l. 12. for ſuffient r. ſufficient. p. 27. l. 13. r. in which. p. 34. l. 21. r. ſent for. p. 38. l. 11. for It is r. Is it. p. 43. l. 6. for on r. of. l. 7. for of r. on. p. 58. l. 4. for cauſeth r. cureth. p. 61. l. 12. for will r. would. p. 62. l. 14. for received r. refuſed.