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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

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

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