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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

God hath surrounded thee withall but this of late hath as God speakes Jer. 23.7 8. overtopped the rest thou mayest hereafter Chronicle the 22. of January for another * Fall of black F●rers October 26. or 5. * G●●powder Treasot of November with which late mercy let mee hereby acquaint others that as I have often begged for thee prayers so now praises On the two and twentieth of January being the Lords day the people being at Church the poore Towne of Rotherham having neither Walls Bulwarks Garrison Fortification Watch c. betwixt ten and eleven of clock about the middle of the Sermon suddenly came betwixt six and seven hundred Cavalleers with Muskets Dragoones c. who had beene billetted at Pontefract and especially at Do●…caster and that as after appeared by the sollicitation of some wicked Malignants in the Towne who had a formed them that there was no strength nor powder in the ●owne but being through Gods mercy discerned ere they got ●●the Townes end and with the rumour of it the people in the Church much affrighted so as a Corps * Leo Rigg lay a long time unburied about 24. or 25. men got Muskets and without Order Rank File or almost any skill save onely that God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight these few boldly and couragiously resisted all that great Company a full houre and halfe so that bullets flew exreeding sharply and thicke in the streets and in the end though scarce any powder left slew and wounded many and drove the rest away Yorkeshire hath found many experiments of such mercies witnesse Leede● Selby Bradford Hall H●ssun-Moore c. Like as when Judg. 4. that great Army and 900. chariots of Iron with the Lord Generall Sisera himselfe were delivered into the hands of two weake women Deborah and J●el or of that Judg. 7.8 12. where an innumarable company were discomfited with Gideons 300 Lamps and Pitchers But it is usuall with the Lord. Jericho's walls fell downe without any warlike instrument Josh 6.20 God cast stones from heaven upon the Enemies Iosh 10.11 Caused stars to fight from heaven Iudg. 5. Angele Thunder Raine Hailstones 1 Sam. 7.10 put an Army to flight at the sight of two men 1 Sam. 15.13 affrighted Enemies when none appeared against them 2 Sam. 5.24 2 King 7.6 destroying them by their owne fancy 2 King 3.23.24 setting Enemies one against another Iudg. 7.22 2 Chro● 20.22 dicom●iting them by Frogs Flies Lice Wee find Num. 31. that 12000. Israelites fought against five Kings and their Armies ver 8. an innumerable company conquered them tooke of prey 675000. sheepe 72000. beeves 61000. Asses and abundance of prisoners ver 32 33 34 35. and yet which was the great wonder lost not one man at all 't is true Rotherham had but a few men but as Antigonus said to his Souldiers who did complaine for want of men how many doe you account me for So if God be for us it is enough Rom. 8.31 then are we more for number 2 King 6.16 2 Chron. 32.7 and stronger for power then the Enemy can be 2 Chron. 32.8 〈◊〉 When your Enemies came out against 〈…〉 of Pharoah Exod. 15.9 I will pursie I will overtake I will divide the spo●● I will be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword mine band shall destroy them did not God turn the wind and blow against them v. 10. and may not wee all sing Moses song Who is like unto thee O Lord among the gods as it is 〈◊〉 But ah dear soules what hath been done to the Lord for all this as the King said concerning Mordecai Est 6.3 God indeed made a hedge about us fenced and dressed us but did we not bring forth wilde Grapes Isa 5. and therefore how did God make a sad breach upon us on Thursday May 4. 1643. For where as when we had no workes scarce any souldiers Jan. 22. you slow many of the enemy beat the rest back with shame May 4. Now having strong workes gallant Captaines and stout souldiers yet our sinnes distractions and wants within compelled us to yeeld to an insulting and promise-breaking Army without who promised us our lives Especially Th. St. N Esq L. Coll. W.S. Maju W.F. Capt. H.W. Capt. G.W. Jo. S. Pastor ●a An c. Mr. K. Mr. G. liberties estates c. under their hands and then fined imprisoned plundered banished and most cruelly used divers of us yea scattered us a sunder into corners so as wee durst scarce see one another since Act. 8.1 But first let us with Job through all the plundering enemies see the hand of our God lay our hand upon our mouths with David Psal 39. and say with Ezra Chap. 9.13 14. theu our God hast punished us lesse then our iniquit●es deserve Secondly let us not be cast down nor dismayed God will carry on his great work which he hath to do upon Mount-Zion and in Jerusalem and then his and his Churches enemies shall down Isa 10.12 25. yea all such as clap their hands or cry aha at the Churches misery Ezek. 25.3 6. Thirdly spread poor Englands case as somtimes Hezekiah did the Letter before the Lord let not the Angell of the Covenant goe Gen. 32.26 till he be at peace with our poor sick Mother and not a politique Kingdom-destroying peace as Dan. 8.25 but a holy and happy Peace be setled among our selves or if that Robert Grosthead that great Bishop of Lincoln must needs be a Prophet who a little before his death having seen much of the abomination of Poperie prophesied in the dayes of H. 3. nunquam liberabitur Ecclesia ab Egyptiaca servitute nisi in ore gladii cruentandi oh then hold up your hands upon the Mount Exod. 17.11 12. untill the ●ish Popish Amalekites be subdued Fourthly let us humble our selves for all our sinnes that stop and hinder Reformation that furnish the enemy and wound the Church 2 Chron. 20.33 Deut. 8.15 16. Lev. 26.41 42. yea and bee humbled from our sins God will not have Satan cast out Satan c. Fifthly Pray for cry beg our King at the hands of God that they who hear us may say impossibile est filium tantarum laer●marum perire that if any do wickedly traduce us as no friends to the King we may cordially and comfortably with the two Tribes and a half make our appeal to the All-seeing Searcher of hearts in the words that as common fame reports and their prisoners taken related the enemies Chaplaine tooke for his Text on Hessam-Moore on Tuesday July 2. 1644. immediatly before that most memorable battell where God was so seen in the Mount encour raging them to sight Joshua 22.22 The Lord God of gods the Lord God of gods he knoweth and-Israell shall know if it be in Rebellion or if in transgression against the Lord save us not this day wee dare appeale to the most high that wee heartily wish K. CHARLES may conquer with

the Ethiopian Eunuch Act. 8.30 Understandest thou what thou readest Perhaps he would returne you that answer which the Eunuch did to Phillip ver 31. How can I except some man should guide me Let me intreate you therefore who are the stronger sheep of Christs flock to stay a while till I for the use of the weaker flocke unroll this stone and drive the tender lambs softly and that I may be a pillar of fire as was said of Basil to lead you in this Wildernesse Gen. 33.13.14 a star to leade you to Christ in the Text the blessing of him that appeared in the Bush who onely was found worthy to open the Seales prosper our journey amongst you this day And first of the first the pollution or defilement of Leprosie a disease as I said of all others most filthy The Hebrews call it by a name that signifies a fretting piercing sore The Syriack and the Greek Rev. 5.5 Scabbednesse Scurfe or Scales The Caldee shutting out or Seclusion All shewing that it was a disease in it selfe most scurvy and loathsome to the party most painfull and piercing to others most infectious so that the Lepers were secluded and shut out both from the congregation of God and the society and camp of men during their Leprosie yea though Kings as Azariah or Vzziah 2 Chron. 26.21 2 Kin. 15.5 though great persons as Miriam Num. 12.14 Lepers were therefore without the City alone by themselves 2 King 7.3 Mat. 8.1 Luke 17.11 so God commanded Num. 5.2 3. that they might not desile the Camp or Church God doth hereby set out and by these sensible objects would lead the Jew as by the nose and would have both Jewes and Gentiles hereby to discerne and loath that exceeding filth and loath somnesse of sin as if he had said You are very sensible and afraid of exceeding pained with and weary of the disease and defilemen of Leprosie Oh learn to hate and abhor sin which is typed heret by and is far more loathsome as the substance goes beyond the shadow the body the picture Now that God did intend hereby to set out the silth of sin appeares First because that this disease was more common in the Land of Canaan to which people these Types and Ceremonies were given then in any other part of the world nay the Jewes say that some kinds of it were miraculous and among no people but them as Leprosie in walls and garments c. And as many thinke most raging and common in Christs time that so Christ so commonly curing this disease the Jewes might learne that this was the Messiab Mat. 8.3 4 16 17 11.3 4 5. Mark 1.41 42. typed out in all their Leviticall shadowes that came into the world to cleanse them from and take away the Leprosie and filth of sin Secoudly God sends them not to the bodily Physitian to cure their disease but to the Priest a type of Our High Priest Jesus Christ Thirdly the materialls appointed for the cleansing of the Leper have no intrinsicall vertue or medicinable quality to cure the body but as we shall even now heare typifie out Christ and his benefits that takes away the sin of the soule Fourthly the Apostle imimates this to be the true meaning Heb. 9.13 14 19 22. and Chap. 12.24 Chap. 10.1 4 14. when God would set out the basenesse of wicked men he cals them Wolves Lions Bears Foxes Spiders Cocatrises Smoak Dung Isa 11 6 7 8. 59.5 6 Cant. 2.15 Chaffe Psal 1.4 1 Kin. 14.10 When God sets out the pretiousnesse of his people he cals them Love Dove Jewels c. Cant. 2. Mat. 3 c. So when he would set cut the exceeding filth of sin hee shadowes it out by Leprosie Uncle annesse c. Secondly For the five materials appointed for the cleansing viz. two Birds Scarlet Cedar and Hyssop some have thought the two Birds to have beene sparrowes and so reade the words others as far as I now remember having now neither Books nor papers to consult with think they were no tame or house-birds because one of them must flie away into the field so as in likelihood to returne no more as the scape-goat also the more fitly to resemble Christ who carries away our sins not return to destroy us I conceive then the two Birds did typisie Jesus Christ two natures the dying Bird set out his humanity according to which he died shed his bloud and lay in the grave The live-bird set out his Divinity by the power whereof he rose againe flew away to heaven and carried away our sins thus Peter expounds it 1 Pet. 3.18 being put to death in the fiesh but quickned by the Spirit thus Paul 2 Cor. 13.4 He was crucified through weaknesse yet he lives by the power of God so Rom. 4.25 And because no one Bird could both die and live againe therefore here are two birds mentioned as two Goats Lev. 16.7 10. to shadow out both Christs shedding of his bloud for the remission of our sins Heb. 9.22 and his bearing away our griefes and carrying our sorrowes Isa 53.4 Mat. 8.17 Now as these must be two little Birds both of a kind so must they be both clean ver 4. So was Christ as God and as man every way holy and unspotted That Christ was God see the testimony of Scripture Phil. 2.6 1 Ioha 3.7 the testimony of the Devill Mark 1.24 Christs very enemies Mat. 27.54 Christs very workes raising dead curing all diseases turning water into wine multiplying loaves all kindes of miracles and like the live-bird in my Text his raising himself from the dead and slying away to heaven That Christ was man also witnesse his Birth Life and like the dying bird in my Text his death and shedding his bloud The other three materialls viz. Cedar Scarlet and Hyssop as I conceive set out the severall graces and vertues in this pretious Redeemer The Cedar that rots not yea the pitch that runs out as naturalists affirme keepes dead bodies from rotting shewes Christs innocency free from all corruption The red Scarlet of a perfect dye notes Christs fervent love to his Church The savory Hyssop sets out Christs savory obedience pleasing to the Father Now Christs innocency is proclaimed not only by God by Prophets Apostles his own actions but even by the Devill by Pilete and his Wife and Iudas see Marke 1.24 Mat. 27.4 19 24 Mat. 3.17 Luke 2. c. Behold the uncorrupted Cedar Christs fervent love to his Church appeares in that for his peoples sake he being God became man which is infinite more then for great Nebu●hadnezzar to become a beast nay not onely man but poore man nay scorned and abused by the worst and basest of men yea by Devills who had power to tempe yea to carry his body as I may say from pou to pillar yea that hee should doe all this and shed his bloud like a Scarlet threed for poore worthlesse creatures dust and