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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

into England and that he brought that news by Command from God for which bold saying some graver divines at present sharply rebuked him but ere long it appeared that Queen Mary died the very day before his Sermon which thing he could not then possibly know by any ordinary meanes Mr. Fox also the same grave and holy man told the Lady Anne Henage lying then very sick and Physitians and Friends quite despairing of all hope of life that she should recover as also she told the like to Mrs. Honywood who had long laid sore distempered and that she should live to an exceeding great age all which came to passe † Mr. Clark in the life of Mr. Fox likewise Bishop Ridley when a sudden tempest arose on the Thames as he was crossing that River at which all in the boat were terrified looking for nothing but to be drowned Fear not said the Bishop for this boate carryes a Bishop that must be burned and not drowned Likewise Bishop Hooper at Zurick in King Edward the sixth his Reign taking his leave of Mr. Bullinger and about to return for England promised Mr. Bullinger to write often to him but said he the last newes of all I shall not be able to write for where I take most paines there shall you hear of me to be burnt to ashes So Luther writ to Myconius when he was sick and most likely to dye Deus non sinet tuum transitum me vivo But these I think are rare unusually but to some choise † And sometimes to others as I could give some choise instances but that I will not transcribe this over again servants of the Lord. 26. She was very found in the doctrine of Religion and exceedingly sore grieved at the † As she abhorred damnable practises and works of the Devil so also damnable doctrines 2 Pet. 2. Heresies of destruction and doctrines of Devils 2 Tim. 4.1 dangerous errours lately spread in these Nations and especially when any fell off who had formerly been of our society chiefly at one old man heretofore a professor in Hull mightily was she troubled at those who fell to loose life and under pretence of fearing a covenant of workes cast away the workes of the Covenant or under pretence of higher attainments forsook the form of wholesome words and holy practise she loved new sight and discovery in the Scripture but no pretended new light † As Columbus saw no new world but made a fuller discovery of the old contrary to the Scripture she was clear for a needfull seperation in a Church but not for a needlesse seperation from a Church but sore grieved with those that do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jude 19. through pretending the spirit and are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men out of their place which Luther judged the cause of all distempers in Church and State she read that Christ and the Apostles saw many corruptions in the Church of the Iewes both in officers administrations and practises as Iohn 9.22 34 35. Mark 7.9 Math. 5.21 48 21 12 13. yet in that Church was Christ circumcised his mother purified he heard those teachers Luke 2.22 46. joyned with them on Sabbath dayes in publique prayer Luke 4.16 c. Hophni and Phinehas were very bads Priests and some in those dayes did therefore seperate from Gods Ordinances 1 Sam. 2.17 but it was their transgression so to do verse 24. and Elkana and Hannah then did not seperate saith holy Hildersham Lecture 29. on Iohn 4. she did most highly valew the old non-Conformalists who would seperate from the corruption but not from the communion of the Church as Christ though he joyned with the Church of the Jewes then yet would not use the Jewish superstitious purifications Mark 7.6 7. nor put off the passover from the right day as the Jews did Math. 26.27 She would often say that if those who seperated from us some of whom she had dear affections to as judging them godly for Diversum sentire duos de rebus iisdem Incolumi licuit semper amicitiâ would have joyned with us to have purged out the cursed errours that broke in upon us which by their flying from us they much through perhaps not purposely encouraged we might have been much purer and more reformed ere now had there no hammer been heard in building up our Temple She disputed not whether our Parishes were Churches or Churches were in our parishes but loved godlinesse wherever she saw it and laboured to practise it She was sore troubled at the Anabaptists yet I never heard her so sharp towards them as that holy Martyr Philpot one of the learnedst Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes who in his letters in the book of Martyrs saith that the Anabaptists are an inordinate kind of men stirred up by the devil to the destruction of the Gospel Vol. 3. p. 606. She was as much as any for Christian Liberty but not for unchristian licentiousnesse nor antichristian Cruelty did much observe that those that cryed up so much for that liberty or rather libertinism which Austin calls libertas perditionis Tertullian licentia haeretica when they were below and at an under yet when they but thought that they were getting above they would not allow the least of it to others as we have seen instances too many near us both in print and practise Shee judged Christian liberty not to lye in a liberty to hold truth or errour to do good or evil for then God and good Angels had not that liberty who yet are most free but she thought that that was Christian liberty enough when a man might hold all truth and do all good that God commanded him and she did not think that to restrain error or wickednesse was in it self any restraint of Christian liberty 27. She fervently prayed for a hearty union amongst Gods people that they might be one staffe in the Lords hand and worship God with one lip and shoulder and if Paul thought it beseeming an Apostle to write a part of the Canonicall Scripture about the agreement of two godly persons Phil. 4.2 surely we should much desire the agreement of so many yet did she not limit or measure her love meerly by union in opinion but loved † She did as Bucer love any in whom she saw aliquid Christi See learned Calvins excellent note on Isa 24.16 all the Saints Col. 1.4 yet would she much fear that our biting and devouring one another was so bad a requitall of the Lord for all his goodnesse that it would much endanger out being devoured one of another as it did much endanger the Exiles at Franford in Queen Maries dayes I know not what she would have thought of the Schoolmen and Bishop Halls opinion if she had heard it namely that the holy Angels may holily vary in the way though they perfectly agree in the end urging to that end Dan. 10.13 20 21 12 1. but sure I am