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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13561	Three treatises The pearle of the gospell, The pilgrims profession: and A glasse for gentlewomen to dress themselues by. To which is added A short introduction to the worthy receiuing of the Lords supper. By Thomas Taylor, Doctor of Diuinity, and late preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pearle of the gospell. aut; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pilgrims profession. aut; Gunter, H.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Glasse for gentlewomen to dresse themselves by. aut; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Short introduction to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 23856; ESTC S113869	74,858	266

Three Treatises THE PEARLE OF the GOSPELL THE PILGRIMS PROFESSION AND A Glasse for Gentlewomen to dresse themselues by To which is added A short Introduction to the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper By Thomas Taylor Doctor in Diuinity and late Preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London LONDON Printed by I. B. for Iohn Bartlet at the gilt Cup in Cheap-side 1633. THE PEARLE of the Gospell OR Jewell Euangelicall 1 Diligently sought 2 Ioyfully found 3 Dearely bought by the wise Merchant Infolded in Christs Parable AND Unfolded by the Application of Thomas Taylor Doctor in Diuinity and late Preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London LONDON Printed by I. B. for Iohn Bartlet at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheap-side 1633. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Mistris Elizabeth Backus Wife to Master Samuel Backus Esquire and Justice of Peace And to her three vertuous and religious daughters Mris Mary Standen wife to Mr. Standen Esquire and Iustice of the Peace Mris Flower Backus wife of Mr. Iohn Backus Esquire and Mris Elizabeth Bellingham wife to Mr. Richard Bellingham Esquire Grace and Peace from the Fountaine Right Worshipfull PEarles are small in quantitie but great in their quality and smaller often in the weight than in their worth such an one is this which I haue presented vnto you as a token of my due respect and vnfained loue to your selfe and the Church in your familie Pearles from earth fit not common persons but this from heauen belongeth to al who meane to partake in the common saluation As this Pearle is yours in the common right of Saints so this offer of it is yours by a second and more peculiar right as who first helped it out of the darke into this light Your earnest and often desires of some of the written notes of this Treatise drew from me a promise the thought of the paiment whereof was my first thought of this publication And now this Pearle being yours weare it as your chiefe ornament the price of which ra●seth your owne price and recko●ing in the eyes of God and good men aboue the Carbuncles and Rubies Other ornaments seuered from this are but beautifull vanities The largest reuenues the richest estates the most ample treasures the costliest cabinets filled with pearles and precious stones sets the person wanting this pearle in no higher reckoning than common flints or other contemptible stones with him to whom the Nations are but as the drop of a bucket or as the dust of a ballance So of all naturall endowments we may compare them as Salomon doth beantie to a ring of Gold which outwardly commendeth the wearer But the iewell of this ring is this pearle of the Gospell or the life of the Gospell in the life of the Gospoller Let this Iewell be lost once or missing the ring may be gilded and glistering without but the touchstone and triall will finde that it was neuer gold And because I know that you haue no greater ioy than to see your children walke in the truth I am assured you will gladly afford them an equall share with you in this so precious a commodity and therefore haue I taken them into this dedication Blessed are you that haue your quiuer full of such louely arrowes Of the vertuous woman is said Her children praise her Were this a verbal praise of the mouth children might seeme testes e sinu and the spreaders of the partiall praises of their mother but this is an astuall and solid commendation and vnsuspected when the shining vertues of the feare of God sobrietie and modest conuersation of children proclaime the grace pietie and care of the mothers education Among that rich store of earthly comforts with which God hath beset you you haue none co●parablie gracefull to this if you except your sweet societie with your graue and religious husband And now to you three daughters worthy of such a Mother When I call to remembrance the vnfained faith which dwelt yet dwelleth in your Grand-mother whose reuerend old age is crowned with an ancient and honorable profession and practice of holy Religion aboue any I know in these parts and in your deare mother and am assured it dwelleth in you also I could not but put you in remembrance to stirre vp the gift of God that is in you And exhort you as you haue happily begun to hold on in the way of grace and see that your workes be more at last than at first God hath aduanced you into the fellowship of religious and compleat Gentlemen your husbands to faire estates and portions in this world but especially to a sure expectation hereafter by meanes of your inseparable coniunction to your Head and Husband Iesus Christ. You must now aduance him who hath thus aduanced you and love him for himselfe who hath loued you in his Sonne and hold euery new sense of mercy a new spurre and prouocation vnto dutie In the way and pace in which you goe I must acknowledge I passe and slip an opportunitie by passing oner in silence so many commendable parts in you all which make you worthy to be praised among women fearing God But my praises can lift you no higher than your owne vertues doe whose diligent paines in gaining knowledge of holy things conscionable practice of sound religion charitable refreshing of the poore members of Christ and whose humble sober wise modest and louely carriage especially in these loose dayes are as so many tongues and mouthes and pens without mine to publish your due praises and knowing that you will be better pleased that I turne my praises into praiers for your progresse and prosperitie in the good way I shall endeuour to supplie that want this way heartily commending you to the power of his grace who onely can further inrich you with the Pearle of the Gospell who also giue you with the new yeare new supplies of all holy graces till the new man bee compleat in Iesus Christ in whom I rest Your Worships to be vsed for your furtherance in the faith THO. TAYLOR THE PEARLE OF the GOSPEL MATTH 13. 45. The Kingdome of heauen is like vnto a Merchant man that seeketh good pearles Who hauing found a pearle of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it OVr Lord Iesus comming from the bosome of the Father to reueale the mystery hid from the beginning of the world spent the whole time of his ministerie in discouering to the Church the excellency the vtility and the necessity of that blessed and sauing truth the daughter of eternity without which the whole world had lien in perpetual death and darknesse This parable among many and aboue many manifests that how base soeuer and vile the things of God seeme to naturall men yet there is such worth vertue price and beauty in them as the godly man who onely can discerne them will exchange all hee hath with them yea and part with all the world before hee