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A15834	The nurses bosome· A sermon vvithin the Greene-yard in Norwich. On the guild-day when their maior takes his oath. On Tuesday Iune 18. 1616. Preached by the parson of Southwalsham. Hereunto is added, Iudahs penance, the sermon preached at Thetford before the iudges in Lent. Mar. 10. 1616.	Younger, William, b. 1572 or 3.	1617 (1617)	STC 26096; ESTC S120582	46,815	66

Nay goe further say that shee desired issue by Iudah in hope of the Messias which could not be for she was a Cananitish woman and the Mysterie that the Messiah should come of Iudah Gen. 49.10 was not as yet reuealed I say though her intention was neuer so good yet doth it not make the action good For it is not enough for a man to propound a good end but the meanes wherby he is to accomplish it must be also good The procreation of children a thing lawfull to be desired and the blessing of God goeth along in the vigour and strength of it and God hath set downe a lawful order for the same and that the generation of mankinde should runne in a right course therefore it is wicked and abominable by vnlawfull meanes to seeke to compasse it Rom. 8.3 We know the Apostles rule Rom. 8.3 therefore that which of it selfe is lawfull and good it turnes to sin in vs when it is compassed by vnlawfull meanes Againe I doubt not but Thamar sinned euen against her conscience For she knew shee did not well to put off her widdowes garment and to disguise her selfe to deceiue him For she couered her face Some say she coloured and painted her face 2. Kings 9.33 which though it bee a tricke of Harlots and thereby many a Iezabell make themselues meate for Dogges yet in Thamar there was no such matter she onely couered her face with a vayle yet is not that rendred for a reason why Iudah thought her to bee an Harlot but why he knew her not which if he had vndoubtedly he would neuer haue committed that euil with her And this I think is the worst can be said of her whatsoeuer the opinions of men are Vir mulier aequaliter peccant per luxuriam Raim Lullius cap. 77. it appeares by many circumstances that Iudah was the greater offender he aiming principally at lust she at issue Nay ex ore suo they are the words of his owne mouth Iustior me est shee is more righteous then I as if he should say she hath cause to condemne mee and not I her and will you know the reason Verse 26 I gaue not vnto her Shelah my sonne And so much for the Persons Now concerning the Nature and Qualitie of the sinne 2. The nature of the sinne Incest It is the vnlawfull accompanying of man and woman within the Degrees forbidden Against which God set down a large Law Leu. 18.15 Leu. 18. and in the 15. verse is iust Iudahs case Thou shalt not discouer the shame of thy Daughter in Law Obiect for she is thy sonnes wife If it be obiected that this Law was not extant in Iudahs time and therefore could be no Rule for him Answ I answere that euen by the light of nature Law of Nature Iudah had that written on the Table of his hart which God afterward wrote in Tables of stone whereby he knew he had not done well and which might be some cause of his remorse as afterward is declared Againe the practice of the godly in the times wherin he liued and the faithful traditions of the Fathers might discouer it to be a fault The hauing of many wiues was a sinne For God for one Adam made but one Eue Gen. 2 18. Gen. 7.1 and God commanded there should go into the Ark no more womē then men no more men thē women Noah his wife his sons their wiues The first that was known to haue two wiues was Lamech a wicked man Gen. 4.19 descended of that good Bird Cain And euen in the Patriarches this Polygamy hath beene diuersly excused as a matter of some necessitie And though custome for many Wiues August lib. 22. contra Faustum cap. 47. yea and for Concubines too might be pretended yet to accompany as Iudah here doth with any so neerely allied either in Consanguinitie or Affinitie Gen. 29.30 Leah Rahel Ephes 5.3 there was no such custome euen his Father Iacob sinned by going in to two Sisters Concerning this sinne I will not speake any more it is not to be named but with hatred and detestation Wee ought to pray vnto God that he would keepe vs from these sinnes our Families our Cities our Nation For though God through his singular prouidence can turne euill into good and out of euill can produce good as here of Iudahs incest with Thamar vvho begat Phares and Phares Esrom and Esrom Aram and so ye know the period of that line Christ Yet where these sins are committed there can nothing be expected but the dreadfull vengeance of God to bee powred out And though we finde in Scripture as one well obserueth Musculus super Gen. cap. 19. that many vertuous women accompanying with their husbands were barren or at most hardly conceiued as Sara Rebecca Rahel Anna Contrariwise diuers others saith he vno illegitimo concubitu conceperunt as Bethsheba with Dauid and here Thamar with Iudah and not onely vno but primo as Lots daughters being virgins with their owne father I say though this comes to passe yet doth it not argue that God vvho in this case blesseth nature as it is his worke and not the vnlawfull action of the vvorkers fauoureth these vnlawfull commixtures any vvhit the more but it shewes rather that he will reueale discouer and bring such secret wickednesse to light vvhich to the vvicked and vnrepentant vvorkes confusion to them in whom the remainders of grace are not wholly extinguished and vvhom God hath a purpose to reclaime it vvorkes their conuersion and amendment of their naughtie life as in Dauid was most apparent and here in Iudah remaineth to be proued The whole Scripture saith the Apostle is giuen by inspiration and is profitable to teach and to instruct 2. Tim. 3.16 and therfore not to bee lockt vp in Coffers as the bookes of the Sybils in Rome or as the sentences of Pythagoras vvhich no man might reade or as the Iewes in the time of Iosiah kept the Booke of Deuteronomie closely in corners where no man might finde it but Whatsoeuer is written is written for our learning Surely the holy Ghost from vvhom euery little sentence and parcell of it breatheth vvas not diligent vvithout cause so fully to expresse this Incest so fowly committed Amongst many other reasons out of question these three vvere the principall First to lay open mans frailtie and the infirmitie of his Nature yea euen of those Grand-fathers the Beaupeeres of the world Often wee finde in Scripture men of eminent place of great imployment of speciall fauour vvith God yet haue fallen very dangerously as here Iudah into Incest with his daughter in Law Gen. 19.36 Gen. 9.21 Gen. 20.12 2. Sam. 11.4 Mat. 26.24 1. Cor. 10.12 Lot into the same sinne with his owne daughters Noah vvho saw two vvorlds into Drunkennesse Abraham into Lying Dauid into Murther and Adulterie Peter denie Christ and forsweare him The Apostles