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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Hereticks who Sainted and honoured Cain because he prevailed against Abel so as to kill him and therefore they judged that God liked him they alwayes liked the strongest side but take Christs side stand with the Lamb according to Scripture-rule he is stronger † Nazian observes that Christ is in Scripture compared to the weakest things as a worm water Lamb c. and the devil to the strongest as Lion Dragon c. yet still Christ is stronger and overcomes then the strong man Luke 11.21 22. he goes Conquering and to Conquer both in us and for us is the best comfort in the best times and the onely comfort in the worst and will alwayes prevaile at last And five things I beg for thee and me 1. That living and dying we may be found not in our own rags or old Adam but in a Christ Phil. 3.9 the Virgin Mary did not so much rejoyce in Christ her Son as Christ her Saviour In the holy of holyes all things were gold or covered with gold and if we be accepted dutyes or persons in life or death we must be covered with this Christ 2. That we may have interest in the second Covenant which allowes * The second Covenant containes both promises of grace and promises to grace pardon to penitents wherein God promiseth † Salmeron holds that after the Angels sinned God gave them some space to repent ere they were condemned but he hath scearce one other of his opinion Offer of pardon to such as repent is a priviledge of the second Covenant made not with Angels but Men. to work in us what he requires of us accepts of sincerity c. things which the first Covenant knew not Jer. 31.33 2 Sam 23.5 and that not onely quoad jus faederis but quoad faederis beneficia an interest both in the Covenant of grace and in the grace of the Covenant 3. That the kingdome of God may come in us now Luke 17.20 21. while others are disputing about a temporall kingdome of Christ without us that so we may come into Gods Kingdome hereafter 4. that God who onely can teach to profit Isa 48.17 would teach us to profit both by his word and rod his ordinances and providences 5. That God would guide us by his counsel and after receive us into glory Psal 73.24 Paul may plant Apollos water and now the great God give the increase Farewell Thine J. S. Charter House Decemb. 30. 1657. Mors tua mors Christi fraus mundi gloria coeli Et dolor inferni sunt meditanda tibi Birk A Saint Dear Mother and a pretious wife Doth now possesse an everlasting life In Christ she joyed and for sin repented She liv'd beloved and she dy'd lamented She was the gift of God as was her † Dorothy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the gift of God name And God that gave the gift cal'd for the same Her other name shew'd all things here are vain But where 's perfection now she doth remaine Twice born twice married three lives she hath seen With her first Husband Christ she raigns as Queen Besides the life of nature grace and glory Let her still live in this our mournful Story J. S. The Blessed Soul's ECCHO Dear heart let 's talke again tell me below Some little of those great things now you know Souls Answer Till we meet here I cannot speak my fill Yet aske I 'le Eccho something to you still What is it now Dear soul that you enjoy Souls Eccho Joy Is your joy small or is it plentifull Ecc. Full. What is that State whereof you now so glory Ecc. Glory Is that your glory short or everlasting Ecc. Lasting Who is it now Dear soul that thus doth ease you Ecc. Jesu Doth he embrace you in his armes of blisse Ecc. Yes Would you be here again or else above Ecc. Above Where shall we meet and talke anon in th' even Ecc. in Heaven Tell me I pray can you now sin or no Ecc. No. You are so changed now how shall I know you Ecc. I know you Which is our way to you as you believe Ecc. Believe Will not Profession serve and curious notion Ecc. Motion Will not disputings serve and pious talking Ecc. Walking How would you have us live below Dear love Ecc. in Love What Rule would you to us on Earth Commend Ecc. Amend This joy full glory lasting blisse above Sweet Jesu grant me for t is thee I love That I sin not but thine in Heaven may know As Adam knew his Eve when first her saw Grant me this faith to Move Walk Love Amend That I may live with thee world without end A thousand times farewell dear heart Till we shall meet and never part Oh may we shortly meet again To praise our God Amen Eccho Amen I. S. CHristian and Ingenuous Reader for such I desire thee to be who vouchsafest to read this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I cannot I shall not call hee a fault-finder though thou findest many faults both in the Authour and Printer hereof but as for the blessed Saint enshrined under this Tomb-stone some that have long known her yet no way related to or interessed in her have often said and still do that they never knew any other with whom they were acquainted but they have heard one or other good or bad to speake or report some evil of them but they never heard any either good or bad no not the worst ever say any evil of or against this now glorified Saint though she daily found and sadly complained of manifold infirmities in her self I say infirmities for she did not wickedly depart from God 2 Sam. 21.22 nor from his Statutes vers 23. but kept her self from her iniquity verse 24. and was clean in Gods sight verse 25. But oh could the walls and severall Roomes about the Charter-house could the walks in her garden and most especially her garden-house speak they would tell her sighs and sobs her tears and wrestlings and what sweet talk she had with her beloved frequently besides her more constant standing duties her beloved took her in the fields c. Cant. 7.11 12. She was of Epictetus his mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 si vis esse bonus primò crede quòd es malus Her lowly meek and upright spirit her humble and inoffensive conversation with her sincere and ready endeavour to do any good to whomsoever she was able did much encrease that love and esteem that respect and good name which she had from all sorts and therefore the sadder is my and our losse † Though I endeavor to follow Epictetus his rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. i. e. Never say that thou hast lost a friend wise childe c. but only restored them to him of whom thou didst receive them c. Alstedius tells of some that thought this world would end in the year 1657. because the numeral Letters of that Chronogram MVnDI Con-Lagratlo make up that

to Heaven and being asked the reason he answered The meanest hath a soul as precious as my own and bought by the same blood of Christ She was very far from that Florentin's mind that when he lay on his death bed called his Children and said in this one thing I rejoyce quod vos divites relinquam that I shall leave you rich but hers was that she left them gracious she did not content her self to be of any opinion form or society and there rest but she looked to practise walking above talking she was more for Zebulons sincere heart 1 Chron. 12.33 then for Nepthali's goodly words Gen 49.21 She knew that the Saints of old that went to heaven were walkers Gen. 5.24 Gen. 17.1 and that no kind of Lord Lord whether in prayer profession c. would serve her except she did the will of her Father Math. 7.21 nor would evidence her true relation to Jesus Christ Math. 12.50 Iohn 15.14 She highly prized that precious grace of Faith as the great work Iohn 6.29 the great Commandment 1 Ioh. 3.23 the second Covenant's inftrument or condition Mark 16.16 yet she knew that a faith without works would not save her Iames 2.14 nor knowledge without practise help her Iohn 13.17 1 John 2.4 though knowledge be an excellent grace John 17.3 she thought that love of God was only a pretence which was joyned with carefull practise and obedience 1 John 5.3 John 14.15 as she expected not to be saved by so neither without works she desired first to glorifie God as well as after to be glorified by God she judged that that itch and curious search which is in these dayes after strange new notions and speculations which doth in many eat out the life of the old practiall godlinesse was a plot of the old Serpent Gen. 3. and a temptation of the flesh Col. 2.18 33. As she much laboured for truth and growth in the fundamentall graces that her salvation might be certain and she get to Heaven surely so did she labour for that Ornamentall grace of Assurance that her salvation might be certain to her and she get to Heaven comfortably she had in a very comfortable measure attained to assurance both 1. discoursive and 2. intuitive discoursive by searching her heart and life and discoursing with her own conscience she found such qualifications graces and works of the spirit wrought in her such markes and signes of grace and sanctification as the Scripture layes down for infallible evidences of Election before time and salvation after 2 Pet. 1.5 10. and as cannot consist with reprobation or damnation such as the Apostle layes down in all that first Epistle of Iohn as walking in the light 1 Iohn 1.7 obedience 1 Iohn 2.3 purfying her self 1 Iohn 3.3 and other signs all over that Epistle and the Scripture especially she found Hezekiahs mark of Sincerity Isa 38.3 she was one that would not lye Isa 63.8 as it s said of Golden-mouthed Chrysostome that he never did she was much of the same mind with the Emperour Galliu whose Motto was Nemo amicus idem adulator she thought that no flatterer could be true friend to God or Man and the beloved Disciple's mark 1 Iohn 3.14 dearly loving any in whom with Bucer she saw aliquid Christi any thing of Christ and David's mark dear love to the Word Psal 119.47 72 92 97 127 167 c. 1 Pet. 2.2 besides that of St. Iohn 1 Iohn 2.15 she had a very great victory over the world 1 Iohn 5.4 5. yea a great contempt of the world she was almost come to what old Latimer saith in his Sermon of himself that if he had an enemy to whom it was lawfull to wish evil unto he would chiefly wish him great store of riches for then he should never enjoy quiet or as an Emperour said of his great Empire nihil se amplius assecutum quàm ut occupatior interiret c. And in these marks as fruits of the spirit did her conscience much comfort her as Paul's did 2 Cor. 1.12 so 1 Iohn 3.19 21. she discovered Gods active grace and love to her by discerning Gods passive grace in her 2. She laboured much in prayer striving in prayer Rom. 15.20 watching to prayer 1 Pet. 4.7 wrestling with Iacob Hos 12 For that intuitive assurance viz. that God would superadd to these marks and evidences which she found in her the sweet joy and comfortable testimony of his spirit Rom. 8.16 and as in a good measure she found that the marks of grace held out in the word and those in her heart and life did answer as the impression on the wax answers that which is cut in the seal so in a sweet measure did the Lord superadde the joy and testimony of his spirit sometimes she would look downward into a basen of water to see the shining of the Sun and sometimes upward to the Firmament to see the Sun it self We have 3. wayes usually to confirme and make things sure 1. we confirme bargains by earnest 2. writings by seales 3. at tryalls in Law we produce witnesses to confirm The spirit of God is all these to us Our earnest 2 Cor. 1.22 5 5. and seal Eph. 1.13 and witnesse Rom. 8.16 a pure spirit and a purged conscience afford much assurance she was able by her experience to have confuted the Papists who deny that in an ordinary way a man can be assured that he is for the present in the State of grace and learned Bellarmine when he was near 80. years old knew it not yet she could say though Papists ordinarily are not cannot be assured that she felt knew that she was now the childe of God 1 Iohn 3.2 14. And whereas the remonstrants and others say that we may know that for the present we are in the state of grace but yet we cannot be assured of our salvation because ere death we may fall away totally and finally she could answer with St. Iohn in the same verse 1 Iohn 3.2 that we know now that we shall see Christ in glory and be like him there yea if Sons here then no falling away but be with Christ hereafter ibidem She did think that though a just person under the first Covenant might fall from grace as Adam did yet not a justified person in Christ in the second Covenant whereof Christ is Surety Heb. 7.22 She thought that a justified person might fall like Mephibosheth fowly so as to hurt him or as Eutichus Acts 20. so as to weaken him yet not finally not as Eli so as to kill himself because God upholds him Psal 37.24 Dr. Arrowsmith 1 Pet. 1.5 As our most learned and godly late Professor speakes She thought that not onely old professors might be thus assured because that first Epistle of St. Iohn was writ for that very end that we might be assured of eternall life 1 Iohn 5.13 and yet was writ to Children as well as Fathers 1 Iohn