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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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for all which we heartily and most humbly beg as on our Knee that we may have your Noble step in this Good Work as a Leading Card to other Pious Ladies and a little small Acknowledgment which you cannot better make to the Great and Good God of the deep sense you have of all his many mercies To whom be Glory Honour and Dominion world without End Pray all we Poor Boys May it please you most Great and Noble Countess AS your Title bears the greatest sound so your Name and Memory will be more beloved than all that shall succeed the Protestants loved and they all bewailed it in the Nation when it fell but while Sion-House shall last Old Northumberland's Name will live and may you live also for ever Live when Sun Moon and Stars shall be no more Live in the heavenly Jerusalem when earthly Sion and earthly things shall be no more And that you may so do let the Love of God now dwell in you the Blood of Christ and his Spirit wash and sanctifie you Soul and Body to make both blameless at his coming and to wait for his Son from Heaven which though it may not be in your daies yet will it be a pleasure all your life long to think indeed upon it and that when he comes the second time it will be without sin unto salvation without sin that is a good word indeed At his first coming he was loaded with sins for us Isa 53. O read often this Chapter but he is now without and shall appear without sin for us Christ is got rid of our sins by his sufferings he gave satisfaction for us to the Father no Pens nor Tongues can sufficiently set out this Madam feed your thoughts upon it frequently the worlds all vanity from top to bottom and must pass away 1 Joh. 2. 17. But the Love of God and Blood of Christ abides for ever O happy man that maketh that his portion All things fail but my God and my Duty said a great one Oh! keep close to Christ then that he may clasp you when you and this world must part Trust not in worldly Princes saith the Psalms Their breath is in their nostrils and will soon fall to earth Happy is the man who hath the God of Jacob for his portion which made Heaven and Earth and that Heaven and Earth may both be yours One you have already and the other may you ever have also That shall be the prayers of us poor School-Boys yea we shall all pray that you may for ever sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob Luke 13. v. 28. be in the Kingdom of God to sing the everlasting praises of the Lamb and his Joys to Eternity Revel 7. 16. May it please your most Great and Noble Ladiship WE the Ladies Hospital-Boys of Highgate have humbly presumed to pray and dedicate one of these little Charity School house-Sticks to your Right Honourable Family which is Illustrious as a Star of great Magnitude and has shin'd if not out-shin'd most in this our Horison for great Wisdom in the Laws and Statutes of the Kingdom which made the Nation so happy in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth when your Lord 's Noble Ancestor governed all as only Minister of State and may your present Lord be as great and as good a Patriot to his Country the Laws and Priviledges of it yea and Patron to the best of Preaching-Ministers as his Noble Family or Grandfather has been heretofore and so whilst he really loves both his Prince and Kingdom with the Preaching-Ministers also he must needs be a good and great friend to both and our Protestant Religion so much struck at at this time which is far beyond all the earthly things in the world for true value and esteem may your Ladiship and Lord therefore both long live together and may your mutual Love be blessed by the Great God with many Children as it is and may they all live and stand round your great Table as Olive-branches flourish in the Courts of God's own House be good and pious here holy and happy to all Eternity for that is a long thing and must be and our Immortal Souls too when the Sun the Sea and World shall be no more Most Honourable Madam WE are come again though the Year be hardly out since our setting up But for the future we will never trouble your Right Noble Ladiship more than once if so often but now necessity puts us upon it for getting something out of Great Families to carry on this next Years Charge And we remember how your Honour gave a Caution when you sent your Guineys not to be too troublesom for that you had very many objects in the Country which did need my Lord's help and the truth is the whole World is full of wants so that Good and Great Persons can never lack Objects but this is a thing not common that bears your Noble Name and is Dedicated to the Honour of your Sex and in feeding it two or three Years you will make it live it self and stand upon its own Legs and would your Honour but be pleased to send to see how well it stands in the mean time we well know you to be a good and prudent Lady and therefore will not believe in the least you will yet stick out to help us till the thing be a little stronger and have taken better Root which it will soon and certainly do and then you nor no other Noble Ladies will ever repent in the least of what has been done for us who will ever pray for you my Lord his Sons and all your Noble Family that your Souls may be truly happy when the World shall fly away like a mighty Eagle and be seen no more for ever the Sun Moon or Stars be darkened the Silver Cord loosed or the Golden Bowl broken and the Spirit return to God that gave it Eccles 12. v. 2 6. Right Honourable Madam THough all Good Works may be said to speak for themselves yet a powerful Intercessor does do well and for your house or most Noble Family a greater than your self cannot be for as our Lord Jesus Christ his greatness with the Father makes every thing to be easie and readily granted that he moves the Father for so your Power and Influences must needs be very successful because you move the nearest of Relations and them too that are all eminently Religious and such as have been so for many years the Grandmother being yet living in the Children Grandchildrens graces Madam assure your self 't is for a Good Work we are now a begging and it must be none but good and great Families and a few Citizens that are very eminent indeed that we intend thus to go unto and in so doing how can we miss especially when it is fully resolved by God's grace that the Discipline of this little Charity-School shall be as near as may be for the Honour of God and Religion
called God's because God contrived and designed this Way of justifying Sinners from Eternity therefore says Paul God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself not imputing their Sins 2 Cor 5. 19. Secondly It is called God's Righteousness because Christ who was God as well as Man wrought and brought it about yea he alone brought it about And therefore it is said of the People There was none to help and mine own arm brought salvation Isa 63. 5. Then what an injury and dishonour do the Papists unto Christ in bringing so many He and She-Saints in to share with him now the work 's done Thirdly it is called God's Righteousness Rom. 10. 3. because it is imputed reckoned implied and discovered to us by the holy Spirit of God working Faith in our hearts But then secondly it is frequently called Christ's Righteousness because Christ as man in our nature stead room and place wrought it for us not Christ and Peter not Christ and Paul the Disciples all slept and Christ prayed and sweat alone bore all the wrath and hung upon the Tree for us bore our sins in his own body dead buried and rose again for us well may he be called as he is the Lord our Righteousness and the Justifier of the Vngodly Thirdly it is called Abraham's Righteousness he being the Father first and most ancient Saint of God and he to whom the promise next Adam or rather Eve was most eminently made and therefore saith God In thy Seed that is in Christ shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 22. 17. Not that it is indeed his any more than Isaac's Jacob's or any other Servant of God's that shall believe the promise as he or they eminently did Isa 51. 1. We are bid look unto Abraham do and go unto the same Pit as he did namely Christ for Righteousness for as God justified him so just so and no otherwise will he do by you and all us that do believe in him Fourthly it is called the Gentiles Righteousness that is the Heathens and Ungodly Sinners such as were without God in the World and did worship instead of the true God Moloch Bell and the Dragon Mars Venus Jupiter and Apollo and the Devil in an hundred Idols consecrated Trees and Four-footed Creatures Now to these miserable Gentiles was Christ promised and sent and he shall bring forth judgment unto the Gentiles Isa 51. namely Christ that is a right understanding to worship the true God that made Heaven and Earth which Papists yet so much continue in by worshiping Pictures Shrines Images and the consecrated Host a little Half-farthing Wafer and for which not doing they have burnt and murthered thousands A thing most cruel on one hand and irrational on the other yea more than the Persians worshiping of the Sun a thousand times for that 's a glorious creature though it be but a creature Now from these Gentiles we came and are of their Race yet by Christ and his Righteousness which is called the Gentiles we are made near though otherwise Strangers and Aliens But fifthly as it is called God's Christ's Abraham's and the Gentiles Righteousness so it is called Faith's Righteousness also Rom. 10. 6. That the Righteousness of Faith might come unto the Gentiles Rom. 9. 30. And it is called Faith's Righteousness first because by Faith we see it lay hold on and believe in it to the saving of our souls Faith is an eye that sees Christ and his Righteousness Faith is an hand and receives Christ and his Righteousness Faith is an ear that hears Christ and his Righteousness when 't is preached on And all my Sheep follow me says he and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish Joh. 10. 28. For with the heart man believes saith St. Paul and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation What Confession namely this That God has raised Christ from the dead and made his life and death a Righteousness for poor sinners which alone is the ground of their justification and eternal salvation in the highest Heavens also And for this and this alone and denying Mass Purgatory and Works of Supererogation and for denying the Popes Infallibility and Supremacy have thousands and thousands been massacred and murdered in the Christian world but when did any Protestants put any Roman-Catholicks to death meerly upon the account of their Religion or how very few have they been Thomas of Becket Bishop of Canterbury was knock'd on the head by 3 or 4 Blades at Court for quarrelling with the King or interrupting of the Laws and some-body else by a just Law hang'd for a Gun intended against a better much greater King and for this one is Sainted and the other may be too in a little time But Faith and its Righteousness teaches us none of these but to submit to Kings and all lawful authority that we may live peaceably and quietly under them in all righteousness and honesty Rom. 13. 1. But sixthly this Righteousness is called the Saints Righteousness that is all sanctified men women and children and Righteousness in the world for a Saint is nothing else in a strict sense but a man or woman truly fearing God and a little of the true fear and grace of God in the heart makes any man or woman in the world so in the account of God and the holy Scriptures for 't is not Notion Gifts Parts great and humane Learning but saving truth that make a Saint And all the humane learning in the world says Hintius will not rectifie the crooked nature of man as instance Socrates and Aristotle the one being a covetous wretch as ever liv'd and the other keeping a common Strumpet for his Lust But a little saving grace will bridle men from all sin when bare humane knowledge cannot nor all the Brass Tin and Copper in the world make a dram of Gold nor all the common gifts parts and wit of men which I speak not in the least against no not in the least but reverence it and them that have it yet I say 't is grace and the sanctifying grace and Spirit of God in the heart that makes a Saint and whoever has any thing of that more or less for some have much more and some much less than others yet whoever has the least sanctifying measure of the Truth in his Heart is a Saint and Servant of God be he Noble or Ignoble High or Low Rich or Poor Learned or Unlearned and for this see these Texts or Scriptures at your leisure Phil. 1. 1. Col. 1. 2 12. Ephes 4. 12. Chap. 3. 8. Heb. 6. 10. And therefore if any fine young Lady Gentlewoman or others have but a little love to Christ the Word Ways Things or Servants of Christ she may be a Saint as well as the greatest they were called at the first Disciples Brethren 2 Joh. 1. 2. Jam. 1. 2. Christians Acts 11. 26. Saints and Believers Acts 5. 14. 1 Tim. 4.