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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59597	Two clean birds, or, The cleaning of the leper as it was unfolded in a sermon preached before the right honourable Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, Generall of the northern forces, and the most of his army, on the fifth day of February, 1642 (being the Lords day, and by his honor appointed to bee kept as a fast upon speciall occasion) at Selbie, in the West Riding of the county of Yorke / by Iohn Shaw, pastor to the church at Rotheram in the same county.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1644 (1644)	Wing S3031; ESTC R29354	29,441	41

of this Leprosie the whole man is naturally desiled by the fall we lost Gods image made backward to all good prone to all ill liable to condemnation Rom. 5.12 16 18. Vse 2 This acquaints us nextly of that great need that every one hath to be converted to help us against the leprosie of our first birth grace is obtained by and heaven entailed to not our first but second birth This regenerating work is first the greatest secondly needfullest thirdly happiest change in the world First greatest to turne water into wine was a great worke John 2. yet in time water would have been wine by the help of the vine in the ordinary course of Providence had wee a childe that wanted a hand a leg an eye or had some limme extremely mishapen and disfigured you would say to one that should help you you were bound to be his servant for over and proclaim it for a great work Oh but to raise Lazarus from his foure dayes death was yet much greater but yet to turne a Lion into a Kid a Wolfe into a Lamb Isa 11. is the greatest worke of all When Jacob gave to Benjamin his coat of Armes Gen. 49.27 he tells him that he should ravine as a Wolfe c. now if ever there was Wolfe of the tribe of Benjamin it was Saul when others did mischiefe against the Saints he consented to it Act. 7.58 8.1 Nay himselfe was bloudy and cruell minded against any that called upon Jesus Christ or went that way Act. 26.11 Yea thirdly he sought for commission and power to execute his mischiefe like a Catch-poll Act. 9.1 Fourthly hee tooke much paines rid a journey and got others with him from Jerusalem in the tribe of Benjamin to Damascus in Syria Act. 9.2 22.5 Fifthly when hee caught them hee beat them cruelly Act. 26.10 22.19 Sixthly many he killed Act. 22.4 and many he dragged and haled to prison Act. 26.10 Seventhly some he punished and some he banished made them flye to strange Countries Act. 8.4 26.11 some way or other made havock of them Act. 8 3. And eightly which was worst of all not content to plunder their estates mischieve their bodies but with that monster of Millai●e endeavoured to undoe their soules by making them blaspheme the Name of Jesus Christ Act. 26.11 every way as much as in him lay assayed to overthrow the Church of Christ Act. 8.3 Gal. 1.13 And yet behold this raging and ravening Wolfe of Benjamin become a Lambe meeke and humble Act. 9.4 5 6. changed in name secondly in nature thirdly condition or estate fourthly in practise oh what a great change Christ puts this receiving of the Gospell among his great miracles Mat. 11.5 Secondly a needfull change we heare people cry daily in the streets Alas great things lie at stake Ireland is gasping England is on the knee and other Churches and Kingdomes much endangered Oh but till this change be wrought on thy soule there lyes more at stake every night thou goest to bed or morning thou uprisest then 100. Englands Irelands c. are worth even that immortall precious soule of thine I heare men say sometimes and rejoyce oh such a Towne or such a Castle was taken with the losse onely of ten or twenty or ●●ve and twenty men Alas then thinke I these ten or twenty men had ten or twenty soules and as soone as ever the poore vessell is crackt the poore shell broke the soule flies out to eternity and if leprous soules not changed not converted undone eternally our heavenly Father knowes that we need meat drinke c. but much more need wee to have our leprous soules cleansed because out eternall weale or woe depends theron Thirdly happiest change for now that day is salvation come to thy house First thou mayest have comfort in every condition here health sicknesse prosperity advernty c. having interest in Christs benefits priviledges promises intercession c. Secondly freed from damnation Rom. 8.1 and right to eternall life hereafter John 3.36 Nor will it serve to have a new tongue onely as Jehu to talke well or a new hand as Herod to reforme well in many things or a new outside as five foolish Virgins to carry well in many things was there ever any creature borne having only a tongue onely a hand or outside such would be a wofull birth but seeing we are leprous from top to toe we must become new creatures sanctified throughout 2 Cor. 5.17 1 Thes 5.23 2 Cor. 7.1 but I know to whom I speake and therefore hasten Vse 3. Informes us why it is so necessary to avoid euill company why the Scripture so often beats on it in both the Testaments Prov. 4.14 15 c. Psal 6.8 119.115 2 Tim. 3.5 Ephes 5.11 c. Alas because wicked men are Lepers infectious have the plague sore upon them Lord have mercy upon us 1 King 8.38 2 Chron. 6.29 and by reason of this leprosie raigning in them they are loathsome to God Zach. 11.8 loathsome to good men Psal 15.4 loathsome to all men Lam. 1.18 yea to all creatures Rom. 8.21 and if ever God open their eyes will be loathsome to themselves Job 42.6 Ezek. 36.31 If the plague rage in any Towne you say to your children families c. Oh looke to your selves for the Lords sake come not there take such and such antidotes oh so saith Peter as soone as ever he had won those three thousand he presently prescribes to those new converts Act. 2.40 save your selves from this untoward generation Lepers were shut out of the City camp and congregation lest others should be infected by them and were to give warning unto others Lev. 13.46 2 Chron. 26.11 1 King 15.6 7.3 Numb 12. Matth. 8.2 c. to cry uncleane uncleane Lev. 13.45 Use 4. It next shewes us that when Gods Ministers preach Gods judgments and threatnings speake plain and home it s not as people conceive any ill will or malice they bear to them Rev. 11.10 nor any losse they wish them alas they wish no more losse then to part with their Leprofie their plague soar do you account parting with a Disease a wound cold water out of your shooes a losse and do you hate us 1 King 22.8 and account us your Fo●s for this Gall. 4.16 Use 5. Let every Evangelicall Aaron then know what is one great part of our Office even to stand betwixt the living and the dead to distinguish betwixt the pretious and the vile one Office of the Priest was to discover the Leprosie and by marks and signes such as God laid down to him to shew who were clean and who were unclean there is as much difference 'twixt wicked and godly as twixt blind and seeing Leper and sound dead and living but seeing self-conceit in the understanding self-will in the will self-love in the affections like Noahs three Sons have so planted and overspread the world and the heart of man is so deceitfull