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VOICE OF ONE CRYING

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WILDERNESS:

OR,

THE BUSINESS OF A CHRISTIAN,
Antecedaneous to, concomitant with, and consequent
upon, a fore and heavy VISITATION.

Represented in several SERMONS, under the following Titles, viz.
A WELCOME TO THE PLAGUE,
A FAREWEL TO LIFE,
THE ANGELIC LIFE.

By SAMUEL SHAW, MA.
Some Time Minister of LONG-WHATTON, Leicestershire.

All the Paths of the Lord are Mercy and Truth, unto such as keep his
Covenant, and his Testimonies, PSALM XXV. 10.

Mala pœnalia non funt verè mala, quia fluunt à summo bono, nimirum
Deo; ducunt ad fummum bonum, nimirum fruitionem Dei; et
erant in fummo bono, nimirum Christo.
BIEL.

The Evils of Punishment are not truly Evils, for they flow from the
chief Good, even God; they lead to the chief Good, the Enjoyment
of God; and were found in the chief Good, even Christ.

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Printed and Sold by T. BALDWIN, at No. 9, in Great May's Buildings,
St. Martin's Lane, Charing-Cross. MDCCLXIX.

[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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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