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earth_n	father_n	heaven_n	holy_a	10,196	5	5.1385	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93049	Britannia rediviva: or the proper and soveraign remedy for the healing and recovering of these three distracted nations; as it was prescribed in a sermon preached in the minster at York, at the Assizes there held on Thursday morning, August 9. 1649. Before the Right Honorable Judges, the Right Worshipful the High Sheriff, the justices of peace, gentry, and others of the county of York. / By John Shaw, master of arts, sometimes of Christs Colledg in Cambridg, and now preacher of Gods Word at Kingston upon Hull.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1649 (1649)	Wing S3026; Thomason E584_1; ESTC R206214	28,435	40

God I could never learn neither in Court nor Countrey but your justice and integrity are I am confident cleerly manifest to the consciences of all who have known your carriages especially the last and this Assizes here notwithstanding all the objections of your riding the circuit in your own native Countrey You have both of you been tryed in these sifting ●●nes and been found faithful in the grand Affairs of the Common-wealth These Notes were preached at the intreaty of Master High Sheriff and you my Lords were pleased to own them in publike and my self in private and to require them to be Printed which I the rather am content to suffer to testifie my obedience to your commands and to shew how much I value your judgments above my own I am sure I can do nothing worthy of this quick-sighted age I will trouble you Right Honorable and Right Worshipful no more at present but will freely pour out my soul at the Throne of Grace to God for your Protection Sanctification and Eternal Salvation for Gods Spiritual Blessings within you and his Prospering Blessings upon your just Endevors and humbly subscribe my self York August 14. 1649. Your Honors and Worships Spiritual Servant in my Masters Work John Shaw To the Christian Reader Especially the Authors Christian Friends at Kingston upon Hull Bradfield Penistone and Cartmel Christian Reader The names of the Iury. of life and death To you also my tenderly affected friends * At ●●●d 〈◊〉 the smoke of whose my Native soyl I cannot but heartily affect whatever your private carriages be to me-ward let me commend the Jewel of Righteousness and Justice herein contained I have lived to see many changes amongst you I beseech every one of you look to your spiritual change by Grace as the right way to the blessed change to Glory I know you take much pains for the Earth I beseech you trade more for Heaven make it appear that you value the means of Grace by procuring a faithful godly Ministery among you and practising the Truth revealed I am confident divers from amongst you have been sent abroad who daily send up wrastling prayers to God for you How doth my soul thirst to see the knowledg and love of Jesus Christ shine o●t amongst you And let me adde a few words also to you * Peristone and Ca●tpal Whose good and true welfare I long for in the Lord Be importunate I beseech you with the Lord both for the outward means and the inward Grace let my affection joyn you both together though distant in place * Peristone in Y●●●shire and Ca●●●d in L●●●sh●re in a few exhortations First In regard of God take care you know him not onely a God but your God not an absolute but relative God see Davids and the Saints propriety in him Psal 48. 14. This God is our God for ever and for ever and Thomas Cryes My Lord and my God Joh. 20. 28. provide him the lodging of a broken heart Isa 57. 15. A great Lord of Spain was commanded by the King to lodg ait Ambassador in his own house which he did and the next morning as soon as the Ambassador was gone he burnt his house which cost him many a thousand pounds building and said it shall never be said that I kept a house that ever lodged a Traytor for so he judged that Ambassador to be but our gracious God is pleased to dwell in such hearts as have been rebellious against God a long time and where Satan lodged before him Secondly In regard of Christ you all can tell of a Christ born at Bethlehem and exalted from Mount Olivet to Heaven but O look to a Christ born w●●h●●●a Gal. 4. 19. of which birth you will never report 〈◊〉 every that it was no sooner 1 Cor. 15. 8. he will be no Saviour to you if not a King in you Luke 19. 27. Col. 1. 27. Gal. 2. 20. Thirdly In regard of the Word Know it s not so much the Bible as thy and my heart that is the most proper place for the Word Deut. 6. 6. Psal 40. 8. J●ere 31. 33. Heb. 8. 10. and that there will one day be a Resurrection as well of Sermons to account for as of men to give account O let us read Sermons preached four or five yeers ago in your lives now let your med●tation be in his W●rd night and day Psal 1. 2. so shall you bewiser then your Teachers then your Enemies then the anc●ent Psal 119. 98. 99 100. This is the duty of Kings as David Deut. 17. 18 19. of the General Josh 1. 8. of all sorts Deut. 6. 7 8. you shall * whet or sharpen i. e. Go over the samethings often as men do their knife upon the whe●stone or their swords they would p●erce withal Let not the Word come unto you onely but into you yea into the heart Remember the four sorts of ground three hal hearers and one good Mat. 13. Fourthly In regard of sin take heed as well of spiritual sins as bodily Spiritual sins are of ● times minoris infamiae but majoris reatus they are like a wire run through the heart though the wound be not so visible yet more dangerous then a great gath in the back Let your care be not onely to avoyd acts of sin but especially a state of sin The Saints fall into divers acts of sin yea in some regard Peters act was worse then Judas's but never after conversion are under a state of sin and death Fifthly In regard of the Godly whose judgments are sound for Fundamentals and lives humble and holy Take heed how thou offendest one of Gods little ones Matth. 18. 6. Fall not out as Joseph said by the way who shall lodg in the same Heaven at night Some Saints have the head-ake as well as others the heart ake and the Father watcheth as well with the one as with the other But take heed of any such opinions as draw thee on to liceutiousness of practice holiness is the best thing on Earth or Heaven no attribute is thrice together ascribed to God in Scripture but Holiness Holy holy holy Lord it s not Gods holy Spirit that leads thee to unholines●do not under pretence of not resting on Ordinances and Duties neglect or contemn them The conduit will soon be dry that is cut off from the Fountain and that man be soon lean that leaves off his meat Prayer is all mens duty and the Saints priviledg Having set your faces towards Heaven take heed of starting to the right hand or the left or turning quite backward Reader Be not offended with the Latine or Histories in the Sermon it s far from my constant use neither were many ofthem mentioned in Preaching onely such was my scribling hast in writing these Notes over that I am constrained to put my own Marginal References into the Text. If ye get any profit by the reading hereof remember him that would very gladly