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A93051 Mistris Shawe's tomb-stone or, the saints remains. Being a brief narrative, of some few (amongst many) remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of that precious servant of the Lord Mrs. Dorothy Shaw, (late the dearly beloved wife of Mr. John Shaw preacher of the Gospell at Kingstone upon Hull,) who sweetly slept in the Lord, Decemb. 10th. and was interred at Trinity Church, in Hull, Decemb. 12. 1657. Collected by her dearest friend: with many usefull instructions, especially for his own and his six daughters consolation and imitation. Shawe, John, 1608-1672. 1658 (1658) Wing S3029; Thomason E1926_1; ESTC R209982 62,732 192

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so is he gone for us from Earth to Heaven to intercede for us in life and to entertain us at death we shall not be strangers there Iohn 14.2 3. 3. Our debt is fully paid we are not in danger of any arrest or prison our sins are fully paid for to the utmost farthing our sins though many are but the sins of men but the satisfaction is by the payment of God-Man who gave not his Heaven and Earth but his very Self to pay to the full 4. Consider that we are not to stand and appear in our own rags but in such a robe wherein God himself can find no spot and therefore may rejoyce in the thought of that appearing before God Rev. 19.7 8. Let us be glad and rejoyce c. and why to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linnen clean and white which is the righteousnesse of the Saints 5. we shall not dye for our times are not in mens but in Gods hands Psal 31.15 till Gods work be wrought in us and till his work be wrought by us till his work be wrought in us and so we fit to dye As Christ took not away the being but the raigning of sin so neither took he away the being but the hurt of death sin in the godly is like those beasts Dan. 7.12 whose dominion was taken away but their being is prolonged for a time like ripe fruit fit for the barn Iob 5.26 and till we have finished our work Iohn 17.4 The work of payment and purchase is by Christ fully wrought for us and that work of duty and obedience that God hath sent us into the world to do in our generation shall be wrought by us we shall finish our testimony ere we depart Rev. 11.7 6. Death when it comes will be our very good Friend as old Mr. Iordan used to say it will not kill a Saint but kill his sin non mors hominis sed peccati sin brought in death into the world and death carryes sin out of the world Christ doth that for us by death which he did not do by grace for us at our first conversion for then he took away the raigning but never till the wall fall down by death the in-being of sin death is to such the out-let to sin and sorrow and the in-let to perfect glory mors est sepulcrum peccati And death will do that for us which all Friends and Physitians could not do to the body cure us of all pains diseases c. as Hugh Laverock and Iohn Aprice two Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes burnt at Stratford-Bow whereof one was blind the other lame one said to the other Be of Comfort Brother My Lord of London is our good Physitian he will help you to legs and me to eyes for ever 7. Fear not the paines of death see the joy of the Martyrs in their death Remember how patiently comfortably cheerfully this servant of the Lord dyed you are frequent in reading the book of Martyrs see how old Latimer when ready to suffer urged that promise 1 Cor. 10.13 God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able c. 18. Search we our hearts Lam. 3.39 40. and beg we of God to know why the Lord contends with us what Ionah what cursed thing there is amongst us provohing the Lord Iob 10.2 Learn we the voice of the rod for we may say of sin what Martha said to Jesus John 11.21 if sin had not bin here our dear Relation had not dyed 19. Seeing we are under the Lords rod let us more avoid and watch against our sins learn we the sweet lesson of Elihu Iob 34.31 32. Surely its meet to say unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend any more c. And that of Christ John 5.14 The Lord puts us in this boyling pot to take away our scum Ezek. 24.6 puts us in the furnace to take away our drosse Isa 1.25 into the water to whiten us Dan. 11.35 20. God whips us to sharpen us in the wayes of God we have gone too slow a pace let us now be zealous and amend Rev. 3.19 per vineula cresco is the Saints motto they grow better by afflictions And now as Ioseph sometimes put off his prison Garments when he went in to King Pharaoh and put on his robes so this Friend of Christ hath put off the rags of mortality and put on the robes of immortality And if we had such an officer in use amongst us as once was amongst the Greeks which did measure the monuments of persons when they were dead according to their vertues and good conversation in their life then might she have had a chief Sepulcre 2 Chron. 32.33 Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori So let me live so let me dye That I may live eternally Discupio solvi tecumque O Christe manere Portio fac regni sim quotacunque tui Beza Horribilis mors est fateor sed proxima vita est Ad quam te Christi gratia certa vocat Praesto est de Satanâ peccâto morte triumphans Christus ad hunc igitur laeta alacrisque migra Musculus I may now say what a Pious and Learned man said before me and so conclude Quae mihi vita fuit dulci cum conjuge fugit Proh dolor infelix ut felicissimus idem Quòd sic uxori monumentum fio sepultae Mr. Dugard FINIS Courteous Reader These Books following are Printed for Nath. Brooks and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Excellent Tracts in Divinity Controversie Sermons Devotions 1. THe Catholique History collected and gathered out of Scripture Councels and Ancients Fathers in answer to Dr. Vanes Lost Sheep returned home by Edward Chesensale Esq Octavo 2. Bishop Morton on the Sacrament in Folio 3. The Grand Sacriledge of the Church of Rome in taking away the sacred Cup from the Laity at the Lords Table by Dr. Featly D. D. Quarto 4. The Quakers Cause at second hearing being a full answer to their Tenets 5. Re-assertion of Grace Vindiciae Evangelii or the Vindication of the Gospel or a Reply to Mr. Anthony Burgess Vindiciae Legis and to Mr. Rutherford by Robert Town 6. Anabaptists anatomized and silenced or a dispute with Master Tombs by Mr. J. Crag where all may receive clear satisfaction in that controversie the best extant Octavo 7. The Zealous Magistrate a Sermon by T. Threscot Quarto 8. Britannia Rediviva a Sermon before the Judges August 1648. by J. Shaw Minister of Hull 9. The Princess Royal in a Sermon before the Judges March 24. by J. Shaw 10. Judgement set and books opened Religion tried whether it be of God or men in severall Sermons by J. Webster Quarto 11. Israels Redemption or the Prophetical History of our Saviours Kingdom on Earth by K. Matton 12. The Cause and Cure of Ignorance Error and Prophanesse or a more hopefull way
May your Honours in these saying-dayes wherein is so much disputing and unedifying janglings about Religion 1 Tim. 1.4 6 5. wherein Rachells sight exceeds Leahs fruitfulnesse may your Honours I say take that counsell which holy and learned Melancthon gave his mother then troubled with variety of disputes about Religion namely Go on in holy practise to do what you know and trouble not your selves as you do not with the endlesse and needlesse brabbles of the times which would weary and not edifie you and which made holy Strigellius and Melancthon very learned pious men to desire to dye to be freed from (h) They desired to dye to be freed ab implacabilibus odiis Theoiogorum them how many in stead of heart-searching holy practising mind only opinions notions and disputes which the serious thoughts of death might happily aellay the Poet saith and perhaps you know that swarmes of Bees meeting in the aire will sometimes fight with great violence yet if you cast a little dust (i) Virgil. Hi motus animorum atque haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa q●iescunt Sir Hen. Wotton Provost of Eaton would have no other Epitaph on his Tombe but this Hic situs est author illius Sententiae Disputacdi pruritus fir Ecclesiarum scabies saith learned Dr. Arrows And Luthers prayer was à doctore glorioso a pastore contentioso inutilibus quaestionibus liberet ecclesiam suam Dominus amongst them they are presently quiet Oh that the serious consideration of our dust and mortality might cease and quiet our needlesse differences and unprofitable disputes Go on I beseech you to study Gods word and your own hearts death and your great account Learned Suarez used to say that he more esteemed that little pittance of time which he constantly set apart every day for the private examination of his own heart then all the other part of the day which he spent in Voluminous controversies hold on therefore in Gods work and fear not to lye down in the bed of the grave which Christ hath made soft for you Christ hath both conquered for you and conquered in you the great work is past here if God hath made you new Creatures raised you from the dead the death of sin and nature hath changed you from darknesse to light it s an easier work to put that new Creature so made so raised into heaven and to remove him from the lesser light of grace to the greater light of glory he that hath done the greater which you experience will surely do the lesser But I cease your Honours further trouble onely humbly crave your pardon for this my boldnesse herein and my plainnesse in the ensuing narrative for sorrow knew neither exactnesse of method nor curiosity of phrase and when your Honours have leasure vouchsafe to read the life and death of her who was most dear to him that is A poor faithfull remembrancer of your Honorable Consorts and your Ladiships at the throne of grace I. S. Charter-house near Kingston upon Hull December 23. 1657. TO The Dear Kinred Friends and Acquaintants of his deceased servant of Christ Mr. Dorothy Shaw especially those now inhabiting in Kingston upon Hull in Derbyshire Cuttthorp Somersall c. in Yorkshire at Penistone York Sickhouse Hal-broom Brom-head Rotherham c. in Lancashire Manchester Alding-ham c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dear and Christian Friends THe Apostle saith Heb. 11.4 that Abel being dead yet speaketh or is spoken † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of as is said of that woman Mat. 26.13 I question not but this pretious servant of the Lord mentioned in this ensuing Narrative will be much spoken of among you and the good example of her holy life and happy death still speaks aloud to you all and calls upon you to attend the meanes of grace watchfully whereby she felt very much profit and take heed that you be not drawn from them by the subtilty of the old Serpent or his factors who are full of wiles for whom Satan cannot keep wholly ignorant or draw away to open prophanesse yet with other sleights he withdrawes them by degrees from all Gods ordinances one after another so as they grow quickly cold or negligent in Family duties which they call not their duties but liberties and put all their Religion in their private opinion on which they spend all their zeal and though they regard the Lords day no more then singing Psalmes yet seem to do something on that day merely to keep their proselytes that day from a powerfull Ministery a Popish Antichristian plot and set on by the Prince of darknesse lest his kingdome should go down and poor seduced souls be saved Our Saviour forewarns us that before his coming Math. 25. divers Virgin-professours who though they had no oyl of grace in their hearts ver 3. yet had something that kept their Lamps burning verse 8. some sound principles and common graces shall before Christ come even lose those Principles and their Lamps go out And truly many sometimes-professors have in these dayes lost even their principles and become almost no-Christians or very Atheists but this servant of the Lord kept both sound Principles her Lampe burning and saving Graces she was not like Nebuchadnezzars Image her feet were of gold as well as her head she relyed on Christ alone as the onely personall foundation 1 Cor. 3.11 fundamentum fundans and on the Scriptures as on the only doctrinal foundation Eph. 2.20 fundamentum fundatum Christi satispassio fuit ejus satisfactio scriptura fuit vita ejus regula regulans conscientia regula regulata she could not bear with cursed blasphemies Rev. 2.2 but as Zuinglius when the Heretick Servetus condemned him for his harshnesse towards him he answered in aliis mansuetus ero in blasphemiis in Christum non it à or as Luther Inveniar sanè superbus c. modo impii silentii non arguar dum dominus patitur or as Ierome in the like case Mori possum tacere non possum She still speaks to you more to look after the power of godlinesse and to faith and profession joyn sincere obedience we use to say that Philosophy seeks † Philosophia quaerit Theologia invenit religio possider divinity finds but the power of godlinesse possesseth the sweet and comfort of true happinesse though she could not to use Junius his distinction placare Deum pacifie God that is Christ's worke alone yet did she placere Deo she had this testimony that she pleased God Heb. 11.5 She did what Luther directs servare mandata scilicet in Christo and that is sweet She obeyed God with fear and love Psal 2.11 she had obedientiam servi yet not servilem She had amorem mercedis an eye to the recompence of the reward yet not amorem mercenarium she served God as well with the heart and love as with the hand and life with the fear of a child
of the Christian whilst he improveth her example for thy good and interlineth the passages of her life with many holy and useful instructions The Lives of Gods precious Saints how private so ever their station be are very well worthy of record and publick notice as exhibiting not onely a pattern and lively transcript of Religion and truly now and then 't is good to look upon Christs † 2 Cor. 3.3 Living Epistles but also much of provocation and incouragement to holiness Simeon the Metaphrast in the Life of Chrysostome doth so fully speak out my sense in the case that to the Learned I shal put down his very Words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Examples have a secret Charme by which they draw out the heart to imitation and practise when we press strictnesse people think our doctrine is calculated for Angels and blessed Spirits that have devested themselves of the interest and concernments of flesh and blood and so go away with a prejudice but when they read in the lives of Gods Children that had like passions necessities temptations with themselves with what strictnesse and diligence they carryed on their hopes of a Blessed eternity it hath a marveylous convictive influence upon their hearts and a secret excitation pressing them to go and do likewise therefore I say the Lives of the Saints written are very useful and I doubt not but this being so faithfully collected and judiciously improved wil have its use and find acceptance with the godly Thine in the Lord Tho. Manton Covent-Garden May the 3d. 1658. The Author of this Narrative hath divers other peeces in print As 1. The Grand sacrifice or broken heart on Psal 51.16 17. 2. Two clean birds or the cleansing of the Leper on Lev. 14.4 8. 3. Brittaines Remembrancer or the Nationall Covenant on 2 Chron. 15.12 4. The Three Kingdome 's case with their causes and cure c. on Isai 42.24 25. 5. Britannia rediviva or The Soveraign remedy c. on Prov. 14.34 6. ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ or the Princes Royal on Psal 45.16 THE Saint's Tombstone Or a plain NARRATIVE OF SOME Remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw lately the dearly beloved Wife of Mr. John Shaw Preacher of the Gospel at Kingston upon Hull who sweetly slept in the Lord Decemb 10th And was interred in Trinity Church in Hull Decemb. 12th 1657. Collected by her dearest Friends specially for her sorrowful Husband 's and six Daughters consolation and imitation THe man after Gods own heart holy David tells us Psal 112.6 that the right eous shall be in everlasting rememforance with God with good men as Demetrius 3 Joh.v. 12. and in the Consciences of wicked men and his Son wise Solomon confirms it Prov. 10.7 that The memory of the just is blessed he is full of bles sings while he lives v. 6. and his memory is blessed when he dies v. 7. yea the Hebrew is his memory shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a blessing which a learned (a) Dr. Jermin Expositor interprets thus The very remembring of them shall bring a blessing to such as do remember them God will blesse those that honour the memory of his Servants and besides the memory of them will make them imitated which is a blessing that shall be rewarded with blessedness The Septuagint reads it the memory of the just is with praises The godly are the only rising persons in the world happy in life better at death better at judgment that better resurrection of the just and best of all to all eternity contrarily wicked are the most falling (b) As Pope Pius Quintus said that when he first entred into holy Orders he had some good hope of his salvation but after he was made cardinal much feared it and now being Pope he quite despaired of it men Prov. 10.7 The godly are positively happy and blesled in their poorest and lowest condition for as Peter names a Chain of graces 1 Pet. 1.5 6 7. better then all Chains of Gold or Pearl and Paul a Chain of life and salvation reaching from eternity to eternity Rom. 8.30 So doth our Saviour name a chain of happiness Mat. 5.3 to 12. consisting of 8 links the first is Poverty the last is Persecution yet in both the person is Blessed which Moses that wise States-man well knew and therefore when he came to perfect years of understanding full 40. years old he chose the poorest condition with the Lords people before the highest condition of all wicked men Heb. 11.25 26. nay they are comparatively happy there is more happiness in their estate then all the riches of this world can afford Psal 144.15 which made David so rejoyce in that above all worldly interests Psal 4.7 and Austin say that he would not be a wicked man one half hour for all the world because he might die that hour yea they are superlatively happy Psal 1.1 Blessed is the man the Hebrew is blessedness in the abstract eminently happy yea blessednesses superlatively happy Blessed is the man Heb. that man with an accent that eminent man as 2 Cor. 12.2 a man in Christ Such are happy in life and more happy in death death cannot kill them Rev. 2.23 but cure them it is not death but life that kept them so long from God and glory Death cannot kill a godly man totally not his soul which is with Christ far better Phil. 1.23 is in Paradise death doth by the godly as they Mark 14.51.52 did by the young man caught his Garments but the person escaped so death catcheth the body but the principal part escapes to glory nor can death kill the body finally only brings it to bed as King Asa's Coffin is called 2 Chron. 16.14 so are the Saints graves called Isa 57.12 Death only layes them to sleep till the morning Joh. 11. It was an antient Custom among the Jews as I read for people as they went with a dead Corpse to pluck up grasse by the way intimating that the dead friend should spring again as grasse Death comes to a godly person in the hand of a Mediator as part of the Covenant a Covenant-affliction Psal 89.32 33 34. as part of our joynture with Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23. The sting and curse of death is taken away by Christ their head who hath sanctified the grave and made death to be to them no other then as Elijahs fiery Charet to fetch a dear Child from a hard Nurse or sharp school to his Father's house Godly men are in the 4 next verses Heb. 2.11 12 13 14. twice called Christs Brethren and twice his Children and therefore to such Christ turns their water into wine the Serpent in Moses hand into a staffe to lean on and makes that rod to blossom and bring forth fruit meat out of the eater water from the Rock so that this red Sea doth not drown them but hasten them from Egypt to the promised Land death