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A28346
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The Ladies Charity School-house roll of Highgate, or, A subscription of many noble, well-disposed ladies for the easie carrying of it on
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W. B. (William Blake), fl. 1650-1670.
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1670
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Wing B3152; ESTC R2137
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Madam THis is certain That the Sun Moon and Stars in some sense do not more adorn the Heavens than good Lives good Doctrine and good Works do Religion and if any Religion in the world be more inward spiritual and heavenly than others surely it is the Doctrine of our true reformed Protestant Religion which lies not in Shews and Ceremonies but in Love to God and all that bears his Image which we Poor Children cannot yet be said to do whilst Poor and altogether ignorant of our selves and Maker and such are We And all We which do humbly present our selves as Objects to your Honour's Charity And yet if We or some of Us by God's Blessing good Discipline Catechizing and Preaching shall be brought to know our selves and the Lord Jesus Christ as well as to get our Bread and be put forth into a hard World to live another day then our Advantage will be great and your Satisfaction also because your Bounty has contributed to this good Work and because 't is a good Work 't was very unfit your Honour should be left out in the least For your Good and Noble Lord has ever still been in as we hope he will when Religion Liberty or the Civil Interest of the Nation has been at stake in the least as a bold and brave Champion for his King and Country yea the three Kingdoms for which God Almighty bless all and every Branch of Ye And may your Names be in the Memory of our Nation your own Country as it is Yea the Lamb's Book of Life especially for all out of that will be everlastingly cast into the Lake that burns for ever Rev. 20. 15. God Almighty bless us all with the Power of Religion that we may yet have an abundant Entrance into his everlasting Kingdom To whom be Power Glory and Dominion world without end Amen Amen Right Honourable and Good Madam THE Great God and his Goodness having made you and your Lord not only Noble and Great in Quality but Good and Gracious in Disposition loving Humility and Religion which teaches the right way to Life and Happiness as it is most full and plainly revealed in the holy blessed Writ and Word of God the which may ever dwell in your hearts to shine in your Lives as it does Oh! when Lords and Ladies fear the Lord God Almighty that made Heaven Earth Sun and Seas they do abundantly add to their own Honour and praise their Creator too May you both so do love him and live to him who is all and will be all for ever And may he dwell in your hearts by faith establish root and fix you both in himself Giving you to know taste and comprehend with all Saints what is the heighth breadth length and depth of his grace and to know the Love which is unsearchable and passeth knowledge and be filled with all the fulness of God Ephes 3. 17 18 19. Yea may the young Lord your Son grow as a Lilly be as a Vine that runs over the wall and in time root as a Cedar to be tall in the Nation and may many Branches be his Portion yea all the Blessings of Joseph or everlasting Hills come upon his head to be as a fruitful Bough and Blessing to your Family Gen 49. 25 26 27. Yea may you both live to see all this and our poor divided Nation flourish yea our little School live and thrive which is a thing near where your Honours have been sometime past taking a little Air and will be for God's Honour if it flourish and be well disciplined which is sweet and good and Charity wholsom also and therefore pray Madam let us tast a little of your Bounteous Goodness for we have nothing else to live upon nor no such Noble Good Protestant person as your self to help us that is near and therefore pray good Madam do something for us and our School which stands so full or near in your Eye And we will never cease to beg the best of blessings in Heaven or Earth to be on you and yours Most Noble WE the great English Ladies Charity School-house of High-gate which are yet but in our Infancy as it were do with all humility adore you the virtuous Maiden-Ladies of that high or mighty State or Common-wealths Embassador being desirous that your and only your most Noble Names and Charity be Rolled and Registred with the Ladies of our Nation For as Queen Elizabeth of happy memory did love you more than any so We and the People of this Nation in general do wish to You above all the Common-wealths in the world great Prosperity and Peace and may never more unhappy breach be or drop of blood spilt by any enemy whatever but may your Ships and ours be as the mighty Ships of Tarshish to carry in and out the Treasures of the world to the Church of God or the people of the world which do favour them and all your Guns and ours be as Brazen walls to defend both and Truth from Falshood or at least our Habitations and Enjoyments and from this Union may the Children of men and the Christian world suck the Consolation of Peace and Quiet if they will be quiet and then we Poor Hospital-Boys will never bow nor beg of any Foreign Prince or States Embassador in the world set your most Honourable Ladiship 's Father aside but yours we naturally love and your great Figures and Names we would all fain beg to be visible in our Charity School for all Ages to come May it please your Honour most Good and Great Lady AS we have presumed to petition the She Princess of this world or the great Ladies of this Nation to be charitable unto us so we most humbly do your Honour also presuming a Figure of your making in the Ladies Roll must needs be like your self Great and therefore the good God and his Son from Heaven bless you and your Sir Henry make you still to love your King and Country as you really do and live for the Kingdom of Heaven To love your King is to love him in his Person Power and Just Prerogative to love him in all the good he doth his People your Country yea the whole Nation Prince and People's Happiness is much bound up in God both in living unto him and therefore Heaven must still be at the end of our living and the end of our dying for then Eternity comes to be a serious thing Sharp quick and great Wits have ever sooner or later found the Power of Religion Everlastingness makes time and action short here and in that we shall have time enough to look back read over past things Great Actions will be there greatly influenced by it and for little ones of this nature they cannot trouble either mind or thoughts in another world being so warrantable as they are and commendable too Lord what am I whence came I whither go I so fast away and yet the Nation lies at stake
as great and experienced a Saint and Servant of Christ as ever liv'd that is an in-dwelling in every part of our Body yea and Soul too saith Perkins and Bishop Vsher Indeed both and every part of both is miserably defiled through Adam's Fall and this in-dwelling of sin in us makes good men mourn and hinders them also that they cannot do what they would and makes them too too often do what they should not Rom. 7. 19. I hope you Ladies and Gentlewomen find it so And this is the true cause of their mourning and complaining But blessed are they that mourn upon this so good and gracious an account for they shall be comforted first here 2dly hereafter and a thousand promises are made to them in the Holy Writ Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith the Lord. Speak ye comfortably unto Zion her Warfare is accomplished her Victory is ended her Sins are pardoned Isa 40. 1 2. And blessed is the man whose sin is pardoned Psal 32. 1. This real blessedness is beyond the tongue of men or Angels to set out and oh that it might be yours and that you could mourn and secretly weep and now and then on the knee drop a tear in the Closet upon this account that you have lived to your selves your Lords Pleasure Sin and the World so much and Christ so little God would certainly comfort you with a thousand secret Soul-comforts in the pardon of Sin the sense of his love and assurance of Christ to your Souls and this assure your selves shall be your last and lasting comforts if you be Sin-mourners and Forsakers of it But Thirdly Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth Mat. 5. 4. Yea and God too in the Earth For thus saith he that is High and Holy I will dwell with him that is of a meek and lowly Spirit Mat. 11. 29. May this high and holy One dwell and abide in all your Ladyships Hearts Souls and Families may he secretly be your Comfort Day and Night but you must be meek and I am meek and lowly says Christ Humility is a great Grace in a great Person and well becomes your most Noble Sex yea and Lords too but this Meekness is a quiet submissiveness of Grace in your wills to the Will of God in all his Providences to you and yours whereby you say as it were with holy David If he has pleasure in me he will bring me back again And with good old Ely It is the Lord 2 Sam. 3. 18. And with Paul and his Friends after weeping for him The Will of the Lord be done Acts 21. 14. And like our Lord Jesus Christ in his Agony about passing of the bitter Cup in his Bloody Agony Not my Will but thy Will be done This is a brave frame indeed for Ladies on the Knees to hold up the little Hands kiss the Rod quietly and patiently submit to all the Providences Losses and Afflictions because God as a Father sends them for good and holy ends to his Servants best known to himself and if you patiently take them as his Children without Murmuring then are you Meek Patient ones indeed 'T is the sturdy Oaks that resist the Winds and are split but the gentle Reed yields And stubborn Sinners quarrel at the Providence and Will of God but good Men and Women submit serve some divine design or other and this is the way to inherit the Earth That is to say All your outward Earthly Comforts namely Honour Riches and Prosperity yea Heavenly and Inward too Does God take one Child Be quiet lest he take another Does he take one part of your Estate or Comfort He can take another yea He can take all as he did Job's and restore it again Blessed be his holy Name Job 1. 21. Oh! labour to be Meek and lowly and he will lead and guide you through the Wilderness of this miserable wretched sinful and bewitching World in all your plentiful Enjoyments till you come to himself in Glory But Fourthly Blessed saith our Saviour are they which do hunger and thirst after Righteousness What Righteousness God's Christ's Abraham's Isaac's Jacob's Jews and Gentiles Faith's Righteousness and the fruit of this Righteousness is Sanctification By Righteousness here is meant that which God imputes to Men or Women and makes Sinners compleat and happy in which is indeed his Son's Righteousness or that which is often called his Son's Active and Passive Obedience as God and Man in our Nature to the whole Will and Law of God Christ you know did all the Will of God in a way of Obedience Submission and Observance to his holy Law and so fulfil every Branch of it to a tittle for had he failed in one he could never have Justified us who do still come short in all as we are in our selves But he suffered all the Will of God too in a way of satisfaction for our Breach and Breaches of this his holy Righteous Perfect Good and Heavenly Law given by God himself unto Moses in the Mount Exod. 19. 20. Yea as he fulfilled this and satisfied for the Breach of it so he did the Levitical or Ceremonial Law also for he was Circumcised and Baptized for us in both and all which he stood as a Man or God-Man and Surety for us or as one in our Room Stead Place or Company And as he fulfill'd the Law for us in the Active Obedience of his Life so he did all the Law required or God ever desired of him in his Will to do and in his Death he satisfied the Justice of God for all that we or Adam ever did against him or his most pure and holy Law Yea he did it to the full uttermost and over too whereby he has as it were an infinite Overflowing endless Merit in his Hand to shew the Justice of God in our behalf why he should deliver us from Hell and all the Curse and Curses of the Law which dreadful ones you may read in Deut. 27. 15 16 17 18. which implies Eternal Death to all out of Christ for it saith Cursed is every one that continueth not in all that is written and not only so but to give us everlasting Life and Glory Pray Ladies mind this seriously for it is this Obedience of Christ and his Righteousness and that and that alone which being imputed reckoned and conveyed or given unto us becomes before God in a way of strict Justice and equal Righteousness our Justification and so eternal Salvation and you nor none of you nor any living can be saved otherwise and therefore well may and well ought you for to mind it And how Isaiah and Paul says He was made Sin and died for us as well as Born for us that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. Now this Righteousness is called God's Righteousness Christ's Righteousness Abraham's Jews and Gentiles Faith's and the Saints Righteousness Rev. 19. 8. And first It is