VOICE OF ONE CRYING INA WILDERNESS: OR, THE BUSINESS OF A CHRISTIAN, Represented in several SERMONS, under the following Titles, viz. By SAMUEL SHAW, MA. All the Paths of the Lord are Mercy and Truth, unto such as keep his Mala pœnalia non funt verè mala, quia fluunt à summo bono, nimirum The Evils of Punishment are not truly Evils, for they flow from the L ONDO N: Printed and Sold by T. BALDWIN, at No. 9, in Great May's Buildings, [Price Is. stitched, bound, Is. 6d..] ERRATA. Page 5. 1. 1. for amaret sapare read amare & sapere. p. 15. 1. 15. for sturbornness read stubbornness. p. 17. 1. 25. dele both. p. 21. 1. 1. add of after the word reproach. p. 29. 1. 31. after the word as add in. p. 33. 1. 3. for domnions read dominions. Ditto, 1. 18. after counts add it bis. p. 34. 1. 6---7. for Job vi. 36. read John iv. 34. Ditto, 1. 11. for worked read worketh. p. 36. 1. 20. for do read doth. Ditto, 1. 23. ditto. p. 38. 1. 19. for Jeptha read Jephtha. Ditto, 1. 26. for inordinances read inordinaces. p. 39. 1. 3. from the bottom, for with read without. p. 40. 1. 16. for fovereignity read fovereignty. Ditto, 1. 27. ditto, and 44. 1. 2. ditto. p. 50. 1. 29. for happeneth read happened. p. 52. 1. 9. for faithness read faithfulness. p. 54. 1. 9. for up read upon. p. 67. 1. 9. for do read doth. p. 92. 1. 18. dele of. p. 96. 1. 6. after the word God add are. p. 112. 1. 32. after the word devil add a comma. 1. 27. for wilderneness read wilderness. P. 115. SR RSR RSR SRSR SR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SAR SR THE EDITOR. TO THE READER. S ΟΜΕE Memoirs of the Life of this excellent Man may #東東 be seen in Dr. CALAMY'S Abridgement of Mr. BAXTER'S Life and Times, page 426-436, and in the Continuation, 592-593, an Extract of which is prefixed to a late Edition of our Author's IMMANUEL, a Book well known and approved by many ferious Christians. The The following Discourses were first preached by Mr. SHAW in his own Family, while visited with the Plague; and afterwards published to promote the Glory of God, and the Good of others. As they need no Recommendation, the Editor of this new Edition thinks himself under no Neceffity to apologize for prefenting it to the Public, especially as the Book was exceeding scarce, and greatly defired by many pious People, both of the established Church and Proteftant Dissenters; with whom it will undoubtedly havé a kind Reception. To Tis now more than seven months, fince I pleased the holy and wife together with some dear and christian friends from London, to vifit my house with the plague; whereby he gently touched and gave warning to myself and whole family, confifting then of eight fouls, but called away hence only three members of it, viz. two tender babes, and one servant; besides my beloved fifter, and a child of my precious friend, that man of God, Mr. G. C. fince also translated, who were of those citizens that visited me; you will easily believe that I can have no pleasure to rake into the ashes of the dead, nor to revive the taste of that wormwood and gall, which was given me to drink; and yet I see no reason, but that I ought to take pleasure in the pure and holy will of God, which always proceeds by the eternal rules of Almighty love and goodness; though the same be executed upon my dearest creature-comforts, and grate never so much upon my sweetest earthly-intereft; yea, and I see all reason in the world why I should give God the glory of his attributes and works before all |