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A05185	The book of Ruth expounded in twenty eight sermons, by Levves Lauaterus of Tygurine, and by hym published in Latine, and now translated into Englishe by Ephraim Pagitt, a childe of eleuen yeares of age	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1586 (1586)	STC 15319; ESTC S108368	118,172	336

Ruth abode still with her 15 And Maomi said behold thy sister in law is gone back vnto her people and vnto her Gods returne thou after thy sister in law NOwe afterwardes here is declared what NAOMIE preuailed by her speeche with her daughters in lawe or rather what befell after she commanded them to returne home ORPAH returned to her mothers house but RVTH taryed with her mother in law Let vs heare what maye bee gathered out of these wordes for our edification After NAOMIE had exhorted them both with many reasons to returne home they wept agayne very much which was a signe of great sorrow which they tooke of thys that they were to part asunder For sorrow bringeth forth tears as bloud springeth out of the body if it be wounded so if the soule be wounded teares break forth Wherefore some do call teares the bloud of the soule As they offended not in weeping so neyther do they at this day which shed teares when they are drawn from their good friends The Stoyckes say that it becommeth not a man of courage to weepe for that it is a signe of a weak effeminate mind But the holy scriptures teach otherwise for in them there are many examples not onely of women but of most valiaunt men who by teares haue testified theyr sorrow and are not yet accounted to haue offended therein IOSEPH wept foure tymes when his brethren came to him into Aegypt to buye corne DAVID who ouercame and slew a Lyon a Bear Gyants when ZIGLAG was destroyed he wept so much that his strength failed him his souldiours also did the like 1. SAM 30. 2. SAM 15. DAVID descending the mount of Oliues wept PETER also wept aboundantly PAVLE and all they whome he had called to Mille●um wept ACT. 20. Our sauiour Christ himselfe wept often therefore that Stoicall sencelesnesse is not approued of God Yet as in other thinges so also in weepeing their must be kept a meane neyther must we weepe for euery cause For all kinde of weeping cannot bee excused SENECA although he was a Stoick himselfe yet hee sayth wee may weepe but not howle out But this makes greatlye to our comfort that in this little booke it is written down twise that these pore women wept aboundantly for heereby we do gather that God regardeth the teares euen of them that be very poore DAVID in the PSAL. 56. 8. declareth that God putteth their teares and so the teares of the godly into his bottle and and noteth them in hys regester Good Lorde how fewe daughters in lawe are there at this day who if theyr mothers in law should departe from them into other countries or els out of this lyfe would shed teares for them or if they do shedd any they may bee called Crocadiles teares ORPAH kissed her mother in law kissing was commonly vsed in Palestyne and all Syria and as at this day other nations also do so they entertained their friendes and gesse at their comming and bad them farewell with a kisse in like maner they saluted them whome they met with a kisse Christ in LVKE 7. reprooueth SIMON the Pharasie because he intertained him not with a kisse ORPAH bidding her mother in-law farewel kissed her A kisse is a token of friendship and kindnes and also of reuerence faith and obedience PLVTARCH in the life of CATO VTICENSIS writeth that when he departed out of his prouince the souldiers reuerently kissed his hand the which kinde of honour was at that time onely giuen to Captaines or Emperours and that to very fewe of them POMPEIVS LETVS in his compendium of the Romaine histories writeth thus The Emperours first reached out theyr handes for theyr nobles to kisse after with their own hands they lift them vp to kisse their mouthes DIOCLETIANVS by a decree appointed that all mē without difference of degree shoulde fall downe and kisse his feete the which he set foorth magnifically adorning his shooes with gold pearles and stones the whiche they doe record was done before by C. CALIGVLA c. this sayth he Afterwardes the Romaine bishops also like vnto those tyrauntes whiche sought to haue done vnto themselues the honours due to God offered to others their feete to be kissed the which SIBILLA CVMANA foretold in the 8. Sermon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is there shall be a king with a hoare head or a helmet hauing a name neere vnto the sea or bridge regarding the world bestowing his giftes with an euil foot for they must thinke that he doth them great honour whome he alloweth to kisse his feete S. PAVLE 1. COR. 16. sayth salute you one another with an holy kisse excluding the sinnes of vnchastitie and hipocrisie and he doth not in these wordes prescribe a lawe that all nations shoulde receaue this custome of kissing one another 2. SAM 20. IOAB kissing AMASA slewe him IVDAS with a kisse betrayed the sonne of God This is too too common at this day that men whome they kisse that is whome they flatter before their face they do secretly backbite It is to be supposed that this ORPAH kissed her mother in law of a sincere mind not as that sonne of whom it is in the fable who faining that hee would kisse his mother when he was led to execution with his mouth bit off her eare It is said that shee returned to her owne If that shee had as it is very probable some taste of true religion shee is a figure of them whome the Lorde in the Gospell calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whiche for a time professe the true faith but do afterwardes fall backe againe eyther for hope of prosperity or being discouraged for feare of troubles It is not sufficient to lay some foundations of true religion but it must be builded vp vntill that spirituall building be perfected It is not inough to runne except we obtayne to the goale Who so perseuereth to the end saith the Lord he shalbe saued and not he that began well and goeth but a little forward LOTS wife is to vs an example who when she looked backe againe was turned into a piller of Salt If this ORPAH had come into Iudea it doth not seem that she would haue perseuered But whether she perished in her errors or was afterwardes conuerted or repented without the losse of the trueth we know not neither should there concerning this or of others such like be anie questions mooued which tend not to edification RVTH tarried with her mother in law and could not be drawn from her by any perswations there is a like example IOH. 6. of Christes apostles when many fell away from him he asked them whether they would also go away Therfore SIMON PETER aunswered to whome shall we go Lord Thou hast the word of eternal life and we beleeue and know that thou art the Christ the sonne of the lyuing God We must pray to God that he wil suffer vs neither by flattering perswations nor threatnings and terrors to