number of 1657 but sure I am this world then ended as to her Decemb. 10. †Being just that very same day whereon 25. years before we were married 1657. and my self and 6 poor Pupils may say that much of our worldly comfort or portion Eccles 9.9 then ended here and may sadly remember that which God bad the Prophet Ezekiel so perfectly remember viz. the tenth month and the tenth day of that month Ezek. 24.1 it s thrice in the 2d verse that day this same day this same day But for 1. the Authour of this Narrative he cannot so clear himself for know that these thoughts suddenly dropt from him in a sad hour and were immediately sent to the presse as they stood in their Sheetes the Authour not having any Copy of them left with him but upon second and better thoughts the Authour sent for these back again to review correct or enlarge them but not obtaining that he by Letters prevailed with some reverend and godly and learned bretheren to view and judge of these notes and according to their judgment they then be to prest or supprest but their modesty overmastered their great abilities as you may see after that he sent up half a sheet more to be added but for want of a Coppy at home to direct him he could neither righly informe the Printer where it should be inserted nor himself whether any of those new additions were formerly in the Narrative and this is the true reason of some Tautologies repetitions of some things and of the displacing of others though l a l he done it more exactly he could not have expected to have satisfied all for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. quis satia verit omnes theog 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neque enim posset Jupiter And 2. for the Printer know that the Authour lives above 130 miles off from the presse and therefore many faults are and many I fear uncorrected and I am much of Carthagena's mind who to those three things which the Antients held impossible saith that to find a Book Printed without Errata's should undoubtedly have been added as a fourth Impossible if the art of printing had been then invented though the Author had Briarius's hand and the Printer Argus's eyes I can only say with the Poet liber optimus ille qui minimis urgetur at est sine crimine nullus I onely beg thy care good Reader 1. to amend thy own faults 2. to pray for the Author that he may amend his 3. to do thy understanding that right as to correct these following being some of greater mistakes of the Presse thus Expect but fear not death Death cannot kill Till God that first must seal her patent will Wouldst thou live long keep time in high esteem Which gone if thou canst not recall redeem Quarl Hierogl Vade liber quanquam fis parvus mole sed ampium Lectori fructum Det deus Omnipotens Jo. Sh. M. A. sometimes of C. C. C. P. at Kingston upon Hull THE Testimony of the worshipfull Doctor Robert Wittye of the City of York Concerning the deceased servant of the Lord Mrs. Dorothy Shaw in a Letter to her Husband soon after her death Dear Sir I Cannot but Sympathize with you in your loss and so do all here who have lost a dear loving Friend she was in all my observation most loving to her Friends faithfull in her Relations eminently pious towards God owning both the form and power of godlinesse and as I can well witnesse one that was never daunted or discouraged when you was involved in the greatest troubles that I have known you in from truth's most potent and bitter enemies she was pittifull to the poor and helpful to such as stood in need she was Nathanaels Sister an Israelite in whom was no guile Iacobs daughter who was a plain man her inside was alwayes outward her life was to all her sex a patterne of piety and her death of patience she now reaps the fruit of her labours and the end of her faith and is in the armes of her Saviour which is better then yours and bears her part with that heavenly quire whose song is Halleluiah As to the world and its emnity wherein she had some share with you she is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am certain her gain is greater then your losse which may much lessen your and our sorrow Me thinks I hear her say with our sweet Saviour †Luke 23.28 Weep not for me but for your selves c. Fixe your eye on her gain rather then lay your finger on your own sore she was very fit to dye and had nothing else to do Which that we may so be is the prayer of Sir Your Sympathizing Friend R. Witty York Decemb 23. 1657. THE Testimony of Mr. Heathcote Pastor of Rowley in the East-riding of the County of York concerning the precicus servant of the Lord Mrs. D. Shaw whom he had been acquainted withall from her youth in his Letter to Mr. Shaw dated Jan. 8. 1657. To my Reverend Friend and beloved Brother Mr. John Shaw Preacher of Gods word at Kingstone upon Hull Dear Sir I Am very sensible of and deeply affected with your great loss in that sad breach which the Lord hath been pleased to make in your Family I know you have parted with as sweet a Yoke-fellow and as meet an help in my opinion as ever I knew I cannot therefore much blame you for your much sorrowing yet when I consider her incomparable gain I rejoyce much more on her behalf then I can possibly sorrow on yours and I beseech you moderate your passion and divert your sorrow from her and mourn for your self and the sins of the times she hath left behind her in the hearts of all the godly that knew her a most pretious name and for my part I doubt not in the least but she hath sound by happy experience that her deaths-day was far more joyfull to her then her marriage day her buriall day then her birth day Eccles 7.1 she hath onely changed her habitation and her company and is arrived where she desired and obtained what she had earnestly laboured and much longed for Phil. 1.23 I have known her about these thirty and four years and I can with much delight and do to my great comfort call to mind her great paines and constant labouring in her young dayes after the meanes of grace for the obtaining of that grace which did abundantry shine forth in her in her latter dayes I remember her constant coming every Lords day from Cutthorp-Hall to Chesterfield which was two good miles to partake of worthy Mr. Wain-wrights Ministery and was neither detained by the scorching heat in Summer nor yet deterred by the coldnesse of the Winter she had resolved to take Gods Kingdome by force and violence Math. 11.12 and I am most consident she is now an inheritrix thereof and hath reaped the sweet of all her labonr and sweat
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 Job 1.1 Job was a perfect and upright man and one that feared God and eschewed evil Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 116.15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints 2 Tim. 4.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of glory In Christo vixi morior vivoque beata Do sordes morti caetera Christe tibi Nolui aliquid loqui vel scribere quod improbaturum putem Christum Oecolamp London Printed for Nathanael Brooks at the Angel in Cornhill 1658. TO THE Right Honorable and truly Religious Ladyes the Lady Frances Strickland the pious Consort of William Lord Strickland of Boynton and the Lady Anne Strickland the gracious Consort of Walter Lord Strickland One of his Highness the Lord Protector 's Honorable Councell J. S. Wisheth grace and peace Right Honorable THough I my self cannot bring forth any thing worthy your Honour's view yet that which is dearest to me the memory of my dear and precious wife I commend to your Honours and though I have ever judged both of you Eminent in Piety yet something perhaps in this deceased servant of Christ may not be unworthy of your serious thoughts and may further stirr up your pure mindes in the wayes of God yet more to honour that God who hath so much honoured you The Lord hath exceedingly blessed you both with Pious (a) Your marriage is conjugium non conjurgium Comfortable and Eminent Yoke-fellows and yet hath more honoured you by marrying you to Gods own Son the heir of heaven and indeed therein lies your chief and lasting happinesse Probably this short discourse which was very hastily written as it dropt from my pen in much grief and sorrow on the suddain to divert that flood of grief which I found my self unable to withstand at present as well as I would may somewhat further your Honours Comforts against the hours of approaching and inevitable death God hath called both your Honours to great estates and places and you cannot but know that therein lye snares When the Duke of Venice had shewea to Charles the 5th his most stately Palace he after the sight thereof onely answered (b) Haec sunt quae nos faciunt invitos mori These things are they that make us unwilling to dye We use to say there are two manners of Enough and indeed there is Esaw's enough or (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much in the world without God Gen. 33.9 and Jacobs enough (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or all first God and then content in these other things with him Gen. 33.11 This latter enough I hope God hath given you Christ and with him all other needfull things Rom. 8.32 Let this Tombstone be to your Honours as King Phillips Monitor to put you in mind of what is certain yet we are too prone to forget Lam. 1.9 viz. death The Egyptians used to have a deaths-head at their greatest feasts thinke we of death in the greatest plenty When Moses and Elias talked with Christ at his glorious transfiguration on the Mount their discourse was about death Luke 9.30 31. Christ once cured the blind mans eyes with clay so may he still more open our eyes with the consideration of our clay and mortality do as Eumolpus (e) Ego sic semper nbique vixi tanquam ultimum diem nunquam rediturum consumerem said he did namely endeavour to live every day as if it should prove his last day God hath of late much exercised both your Honours with weak bodies so that what would be a curse to some would be a blessing to you to wish that which John wished to Gaius 3 John 2. that your bodies may prosper as your souls prosper The gracious God give you these two choise mercyes which are most sweet when they go together Psal 103.3 forgive your sins and heale all your diseases I hope you will not take it ill from me whom you have Constantly so much †I may say of both your Honours with Jerome vobis quod possum debeo quod non possum favoured that I propound to your Honours so mean a person for your imitation be pleased to consider that its the best that I had (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said the poor Grecian to the Emperour and whose example I my self desire to follow in the way to life It is the use at the Election of the Emperour of Germany to shew to him on his Election day severall marble-stones desiring him to chuse of which of those he would have his Tomb-stone made to mind him even then of his Death I have here shewed you the Tomb-stone of one that lived very holily and dyed very happily which may encourage your Honours against the night of sable death Satan is busie to vex whom he cannot destroy and though he cannot bring a childe of God to Hell yet he will bring Hell to a childe of God and oftimes brings his sharpest darts towards his death though Satan cannot make him fall out of the state of grace yet he labours to make him fall in the state of grace its good to have your hearts Comforted against that day Senarclaeus saith of John Diarius that the day before he was slain by his own brother as Abel was by Cain for Religion's sake he spake to him so sweetly and feelingly that he thought that he felt the holy Ghost come powerfully upon him with his words and surely I could say much to this purpose concerning this deceased servant of Christ that she spake even to her death with that affection warmth and life as one that first felt what she spake and then spake what she felt That holy learned man Mr. Brightman who dyed about fifty years since desired much if the only wise so pleased to dye a suddain though to him not suddain death so he did Augustus Caesar was wont when he heard of any that dyed easily and suddainly to wish such a happy (g) Which he called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 death I cannot say that she dyed exceeding suddenly †Though she was at the Congregation twice on the Lords day Decemb 6. and asleep in the Lord on Thursday Decemb 10. but I can say that she dyed exceeding happily
cannot separate them from God Rom. 8.38 but perfect them Luk. 13.32 it brings them to a better house 2 Cor. 5.12 to a Mansion-house Joh. 14.12 for indeed here are no Mansion-houses Heb. 13 14. though some are so called to a better Countrey Heb. 11.15 16. In this low-Countrey we are strangers the world knowes us not 1 John 3.1.2 David was so in his own house and kingdom and therefore must not wonder at strange usage here Psal 39.12 David saith not that he was a stranger to God but a stranger with God that is as some expound it God and he were both strangers here but death will bring them to their own the high Countrey for a godly man to die is but as Bernard calls it repatriâsse †Ubi pater ibi patria to go home again to his own Countrey where or from whence he was born as he is godly viz. new-born death brings him to a better Inheritance of which Peter mentions 5. excellent properties 1 Pet. 1.4 it s kept for him and he for it v. 4.5 death brings them to their resting-place Heb. 4.9 Rev. 14.13 where is their Father Husband Brethren Friends c. to their reaping-place Gal. 6.9 yea to their Crown justly gotten a Crown of righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 and everlasting a Crown of life Jam. 1.12 Rev. 2.10 and full of honour a Crown of glory 1 Pet. 5.4 These earthly Crowns have two great wants want satisfaction and perpetuity they are both unsatisfying at present and uncertain for the future here all is not only vanity but vexation every Crown of gold ilned with a Crown of thorns which made a great man once say of his Crown O Crown (c) Lam. 4 5. more noble then happy and here we read of many heads that have been weary of Crowns and Crowns weary of Heads In this Nation how hath the Crown walked even since Christs birth from Britains to Saxons Danes Normans Plantagenets Tudors Stuarts c. William the Conqueror was crowned three times every year in three several places namely Glocester Winchester and Westminster yet soon did his Crown fade and he as great Alexander before him when dead could scarce get a grave for some time we read in Scripture of a City for strength called infinite namely No or Alexandria in Egypt Nahum 3.9 and of an (d) Constantius so Rome was called aeterna yet is falling and Roma mira perenis erit c. Emperor in story that would needs be styled his eternity ordinary Titles would not content him yet the first was soon ruined vers 10. and the last but short-lived only 40. years but death brings us to a satisfactory Crown where no want Rev. 7.16 17 21.4 nor any more death but shall be as the Angels Luk. 20.36 and everlasting Hujusmodi comparandae sunt opes quae cum naufragio simul enatent said good Lewes of Bavyer Look well to such Crowns as will last to eternity House and Lands are moveables as well as Goods if not from the Center yet from the owner godly may live poorly but they die rich but however a wicked man lives rich yet he dies poor to him death is properly the King of terrors †As Aristotle called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Job 18.14 Which made a great man in this Nation when he was assured by his Physitians that he must die to cry out I would said he I might live though but the life of a Toad for better that then Hell And it made Cardinal Wolsey when he died at Leicester to say If I had served my God as I have served my King God would not now have left me but now I am forsaken both of God and man Drexellius tells us of a young man of very bad life who was very fearful of being in the dark who after falling sick and could not sleep cryed out Oh if this darkness be so terrible what is eternal darkness Such are men without hope as Homer saith of Achilles that he wished rather to be a servant to any poor Countrey Clown then to be a King to all the souls departed because he had no hopes of a better life It s a sad case when at once the body stinks the soul burns and the name rots Prov. 10.7 yet to the godly death is no losse they part with nothing but sin and vanity but great gain others may gain while living but these gain by dying it brings them to perfection of grace and glory to see Christ and therefore to be like him 1 Joh. 3.12 not through a Glasse but clearly 1 Cor. 13.12 face to face to enjoy him whom our soul loveth to be ever with the Lord 1 Thes 4.17 Only our duty is while we live to be making our Title sure that which is sure in it self should be made sure to us 2 Pet. 1.10 this ornamental grace is so necessary to our well-being that without it we can neither live nor die comfortably therefore a good man when he was asked why he constantly prayed six times a day and lived so strictly he only answered I must die I must die King Henry the 7th of England pretended a sixfold Title to the Crown by Conquest Military Election of Souldiers in the Fields near Bosworth by Parliament by Birth Donation and Marriage but sure I am a Child of God hath a farre better Title to the Kingdom of Heaven by Christs purchase by new birth by Marriage with Christ the Son and Heir by Gods free promise c. yea here they have eternal life already Joh. 3.36 5.24 Ephes 2.6 in our Head in the promise the earnest seal bud c. They are in Christ now therefore though they may have a crosse yet no curse correction yet no condemnation a Fathers rod yet not an enemies wroth how sweetly may such as these go to the grave which the Jewes call Beth Chajim the House of the living Job 30.23 and not only use Chaucers Motto mors mihi aerumnarum requies or as he whom some call St. Francis who when Physitians assured him that death drew nigh said benĕ veniat soror mea mors welcom Sister Death but as old Alderman Jordan used to say that Death would be the best friend that he had in the world he would willingly go forth to meet it or rather say with holy Paul Oh Death where is thy sting c. triumphing over it 1 Cor. 15.55 For as Austin said of Elect men that by Christs death they are non solum instaurati sed meliorati so by their own death they are brought to a sarre better condition then here they had but quorsum haec All this is but to usher in and give you an example and instance hereof in the boly life and happy death of that pretious servant of the Lord still Gods Servant Josh 1.2 still Christs friend Joh. 11.11 though she sleep Mrs. Dorothy Shaw late the dearly beloved Wife of Mr. John Shaw Preacher of the
opportunity in publique or private meetings for any worldly business usually yea when others thought that she was very unable and weak yet she would attend the meanes of grace and say that she never got any harm by attending on Gods Ordinances or doing him service she kept that ear-mark of Christs sheep which many have lost in these dayes she was careful to hear with attention of body intention of mind retention of memory as in that Text John 10.27 where all the five steps of our salvation are laid down Since we were acquainted I never knew her part from me with that grief as she did last October the 11th being the Lords day whereon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper was administred and her weakness of body would not allow her to be there present sure I am we parted with teares truly I faw no such appearance of trouble or grief in her when death apparently seized on her and the next Sacrament-day Novemb. 15. which was the last time the Lords Supper was administred before she dyed she was a sweet partaker of that sealing Ordinance though forced to rest her sometimes in the way 'twixt her house and the Congregation Psal 122.1 I was glad when they said to me let us go into the House of the Lord. 5. I never heard any motion or proposition made tending to the service of God and advancing piety but she was pressed in spirit and her heart was hot after it and more eager to suffer it then a worldling could be for a great bargain Isa 2.3 6. She was a special help to her Husband for saving his life and liberty in these troublesom times and a chearful sufferer with him Phil. 4.3 to the hazarding both of her-health liberty and life in the time of the Wars and since sometimes she was hurried by the Cavaliers towards prison in Rotherham sometimes fled in great danger by Sea in Lancashire her House and Goods robbed or plundered that she might say as Paul 1 Cor. 11.26 that she was in danger both by Land and Sea by robbers by false Brethren c. 7. She was as free from * She did ubique pietatem attendere nunquam ostentare causas pride and covetousness as I ever knew or in these dayes heard of any whether pride in apparel (f) Plautus calls the body only vestis farium She minded the soul much above the body she followed Tertullians Counsel who advised the gallant women in his time to put on the Silk of piety the Sattin of sanctity and the purple of modesty so said he shall God himself be your suitor or rather the Apostle's advice 1 Pet. 3.3 4. like modest Rebeckah Gen. 24.65 of both whom that of the Poet was not true Fastus inest pulcris sequiturque superbia formam and free from pride in gifts performances which rots and spoils all we have and do Hence Austin Caetera vitia in peccatis superbia in rectè factis maximè est timenda 3 Joh. 2. So also from covetousness only she had a great measure of that godly covetousness after grace 1 Cor. 12 31. She would say Proud persons are called pride it self Jer. 50.31 32. I desire never to hoard up any of these things only I would have to bear my charges through my Inn here below much of Pauls mind Phil. 4.11.12 8. 1 Tim. 6.6 Luther had rather be the Author of the meanest work of the poorest Saint then of all the Victories of Alexander's and Caesar's She did more value and love the poorest godly man or woman yea Servants in whom she judged the life and power of grace to appear and more rejoyced in their Company then in all the greatest persons and honours in the world she might truly say what another godly woman said before her that she never loved the Company of the wicked alive and therefore hoped that God would never send her to them when she died Psal 16.3 and 119.63 Fiscellinus valued Nobility above learning which made Sigismund the Emperor to marvel she valued godliness above them both as the best gain 9. She would oftentimes presse her Husband to act vigorously for God and to go boldly and thorough-stitch in Gods work and let never the care of her or their Children be any impediment to him herein for she could trust God with them fully she knew that God cared for them and reason good for he bought them dear 1 Pet. 5.7 10. When motions were made to her Husband of removing from Hull where he had very much work and very little pay to a place of very great preferment as to outward meanes he desired as usually to know her mind herein her answer was I will go with you any where chearfully as I have hitherto done through Darbishire Devonshire Yorkshire c. but I mainly desire that you would only look herein at this end where you think that God may have most honour by you and let no other by-end whatever move you at all God having never put us to any straits for temporal estate she would not have him stir a foot †Exod. 33.15 without the Lord any way she was troubled to see any follow the Ministry as a Popish writer complains of their Priests tantum ut eos pascat vestiat only as a Trade for back and belly or as men-pleasers 11. In all these 25 years she never once failed in her Husbands absence her self to pray with the Family at the least twice a day a morning and evening sacrifice and usually sing a Psalm and read some portion of Scripture to them and when her Husband was sometimes very late busie at his study she would constantly call the Family together and have some Scripture read and sing a Psalm and so keep the Family imployed till her Husband came down from his study to perform the rest of the Family-duties 12. She was of a most meek and quiet spirit and was upon all occasions stirring up her Children in the Doctrine and practice of godliness and very much rejoyced to see godliness so much appear in them she was much of holy Clavigers mind who said if I can but find the fear of God in my Yoke-fellow and Children and those about me satis habeo satisque mihi uxori mea filiis filiabus prospexi then I have enough in this world 2 John 4. She would often say that if God was so pleased she desired that her Husband might out-live her because she judged him more able to educate their Children in the wayes of Heaven 13. She was a very great helper to Gods poor Saints that were troubled in these late national distractions and was alwayes full of courage professing since that when she was hurried towards prison in Rotherham that she did not fear any thing save only that her Husband should have suffered some want through her absence he being at that time hid in Rotherham where the Enemy sought him narrowly yet he could
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
she looked on that paroxysm twixt Paul and Barnabas as a foul fault in good men †Good men sometimes have groaned as the word is Jam. 5.9 in prayer one against another which is very sad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and she did much bewaile that prejudice wherewith mens heads and hearts were prepossessed against the truth judging things according to their praeingaged opinions as Masius observes that when Moses and Ioshua came down from the Mount and heard the people singing dancing playing c. before the golden Calf Joshua being of a warlike disposition interprets the noise to be the noise of war but meek Moses interprets it to be the noise of singing and as mens tempers are so they usually judge and hereby oftentimes detain the truth of God as a prisoner Rom. 1.18 through blind prejudice she much desired that as the lines in a circle the nearer they come to the Center the nearer they come one to another so godly men might draw nearer to God and so nearer one to another 28. She was a most tender Mother exceeding full of †She was not like Bishop Bonner who was full of guts but empty of Bowels bowels of compassion to her Chrildren's both souls and body In this her long ague and weaknesse if she imagined any of the children though in other Chambers to be sick she could not be perswaded even at Midnight to keep her bed but would needs see how they did or what they wanted but especially in their souls she †Gal. 4.19 travailed in birth again of them as Austin saith of his Mother toties fillos parturiebat quoties à Deo eos deviare cernebat she laid up many fervent prayers for them and I hope Impossibile est filias tantarum lacrymarum perire 29. In her paines and extremity she was much in blessing God saying Oh! this is not Hell which yet I have deserved nay blessed be God for a Christ there is nothing of Hell in it 30. As she lived so she dyed meekly quietly holily having her understanding perfect to the last breath and in her extremity never did she utter one grumbling word onely would say often hold our faith and patience somewhat like Calvin's word quousque Domine quousque how long O Lord how long And when her husband said to her that ever since he knew her she had dearly loved Jesus †Nihil isto triste recepte Christ and his people and his wayes and that she was now going to Christ and his Saints made-perfect where Christ would sweetly welcome her and had provided a mansion for her she as well as she was able spake these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her last words I have said she dearly loved all the people of God and shall shortly go to Christ and therefore why should you so weep and be discontent God sweetly whispered her in the eare as the Hebr. is 2 Sam. 7.27 and she had praemium ante praemium a Heaven of peace before that Heaven of perfect glory 31. She did highly prize the Ministery of the Gospel 1 Thess 5.12 13. the feet of them that brought the glad tydings of the Gospel were beautifull in her eyes and that not only at first when she began to look after heaven but even to the last she did grow in the prizing of the Ministry more and more to her death when her stomack was weak to her bodily food yet was the Stomack of her soul then sharp and eager after spirituall food she was not like those Changling Galathians that could have pulled out their eyes for Paul at first Gal. 4.15 and have pulled out his eyes at last Or as many now a dayes that despise and cast off those in the end whom they professed formerly to have reverenced as their Fathers in Christ Yet did she ever distinguish betwixt persons qualified with gifts and graces fit for an office and being actually officers she thought that a man that had both gifts abilities and graces and eminently every way qualified for the place of Magistracy Collonell c. yet was not therefore a Magistrate or Collonel c. till actually and outwardly called thereto gifts and graces fit one for an office but make no officer nor authorize any man to do the work thereof if a private man sufficiently gifted and qualified to judge and determine causes should step up to the bench at the Assises and take upon him to sit in judicature and passe sentence the passing of a sentence was specifically in its kind a good thing and if he passed a just and right sentence it was materially good but still it was relatively bad in him unlawfull invalid because he had no outward call to that office and thus she judged that gifts and graces make not a Minister nor authorize any to the work of the Ministery whether gifted men Numb 16.3 5. or gifted women 1 Cor. 14.34 1 Tim. 2.12 Two things she much bewayled 1. that many took upon them publiquely to preach that were not competently gifted and qualified for that work onely were puft up in their vain conceits others in the mean while could neither pick sense nor truth in their discourse 2. that others who were inwardly gifted and qualified for the Ministery would take upon them in ecclesi â constitutâ extrà casum necessitatis which Dr. Fulke calls vocatio providentiae to do the work of the Ministery contemning that exernal Call that God hath appointed as a right entrance into that office 1 Tim. 4.14 Tit. 1 5. She did believe that because such did reject Gods Ordinance God did reject them and that they did more hurt then good she knew it was not the letter of the word or mens parts though eminent that could convert or do men any true good except God owned them and did afford his spirit in his own way and ordinance to make them to profit Isay 48.17 the word and spirit must go together Isay 59.21 And therefore men rejecting Gods appointment and ordinance could not profit the people Ier. 23.32 She much bewayled that in the Bishops times there were many Ministers that were not preachers but dumb dogs c. and now that there are many Preachers that are not Ministers And whereas some objected that they needed no outward Call because that was onely requisite to such as preached a new Doctrine she thought that upon that reason of all men those kind of Preachers most needed a clear call for many of them broached most strange and new Doctrines 32. She was not a speculative but practicall Christian more for motion then notion she did not content her self to heare only but oh how busily and carefully did she every Lords day Lecture-day and such other times gleane after the Reapers with good Ruth beate it out at night what she had gleaned and distribute to her Children and Servants Ruth 2.17 18. Lewis the 9th King of France was found instructing his poor Kitching Boy in the way
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