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A62975	The womans glorie a treatise, asserting the due honour of that sexe, and directing wherein that honour consists : dedicated to the young princesse, Elizabeth her highnesse / by Samuel Torshel.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1941; ESTC R2556	41,903	243

hung Christs picture and the picture of Pythagor as together And we have heard of some popish Ladies that have had the same curiosities about their Disciplining whips as about their fannes their praying beads as rich as their neck-laces and bracelets and their Crucifixes made into Iewels Judge whether this be not rather a courting of pleasure then the worshipping of God And it was much like this that we were come unto when the great businesse of Religion was only to have a Chappell or Closet decked with Pictures Plate rich Cushions and Clothes And the worship but only the varying of the pleasures of the Dining-roome into another name Or to instance in another particular Shall we think it to be enough to have Bibles of all volumnes larger and for the Pocket neatly bound up and trimmed richly clasped or strung and seldome or never to looke into them Oh in stead of pompe studie inward Sanctification Approve your selves to God like some Rivers that run under ground and steale from the eyes of the world They are the most excellent spirits that beare much fruit but make not much noyse Holines is the end of our election Eph. 1.4 1 Pet. 1.15 God hath chosen us that we should be holy We serve an holy God Therefore saith S Peter As he which hath called you is holy so be yee holy in all manner of conversation No service is acceptable unles it be holy Rom. 12.1 I beseech you that ye present a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God We are called to an holy calling Ye are an holy nation 1 Pet. 2.9 that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light Holines is the summe of Christs doctrine Ye know the Commandments wee gave you by the Lord Iesus 1 Thes 4.3 4. for this is the will of God even your Sanctification None but the holy can have confidence in prayer Heb. 10 2● Let us draw neare with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience There can be no hope of Heaven maintained without holinesse Every one that hath this hope in him Joh. 3.3 purifyeth himselfe even as God is pure This holinesse must be according to Gods holy word We may not be Voluntaries in Humilitie Mantius who was commander in cheife in the Roman Army put his son to death though he got a notable victorie because he did it beyond commission We may not presume against Gods prescribed order Kings appoint the manner of their owne service God is Lord we must looke to the law of his house If we take any other libertie there will be much uncettaintie and change Doe all things as neare as may be by a warrant from the word Let me therefore seriously commend in the first place the constant and diligent Reading of the Holy Scriptures Let women herein bestow their happy leasures They may doe it Let no popish envy deprive you of this faire priviledge I intend this Treatise for the hands of such whom I suppose to be cleared sufficiently in this controverfie and that know their owne right and with what injuriousnes the Papists have indeavoured to shut up the Bible from them Beleeve not their politique and envious cavills They say it is not convenient or decent for women to reade some passages which may occasion evill and light thoughts As the storie of Lot and that of Leah striving for Iacobs bed and some others which these blasphemers are wont to instance in But Hierom thought that Laeta's daughter though a Virgin might safelie and profitablie reade even those places And if their be any relation of facts dishonest and uncomely there is besides enough to represse any dishonest motions that may arise upon such occasion And if the argument were good then not only women but men also the best and most learned should be forbidden to reade for they may also have the temptations of unholy thoughts They say again that many places are too hard for women to understand But there are other places plaine and easie And if the Scriptures were not to be read at all because all cannot be understood by women then none may reade them for no man can perhaps understand all that he reades But let us turne the Argument If the Scriptures be hard to be understood let us therefore reade them the oftner and with more attention They say besides there is much danger of error Ah how unlike these Romish spirits are to the Antient holy Divines Their endeavour was to heape up the benefits but the businesse of these men is to load the Scriptures with reproaches and disgraces T' is a shreud presumption against them that they are unsound They had a rich trade as long as they could keep the Bible claspt In these latter times they have bin forced much against their wills to permit the reading in some places like Adrian the Emperor who set some Countries at libertie because he was unable to hold them in subjection But to leave these factors of darknesse and hell oh be exhorted to walke in the steps of the holy antient Christians Eusebius tells us concerning Pamphilus the Martyr of his liberalitie and among other things that he was wont to bestow Bibles and other good bookes upon poore women a most commendable Almes and which he would not have bestowed had he thought it unfit for women to reade It appeares by Gregorie of Nazienzen's praises of his sister Gorgonia that though she were a married woman she found much time for reading Hierome giving advises to Laeta how to institute her daughter directs her in a course first to reade the Psalmes then the Proverbs then Ecclesiastes then the Evangelists the Acts the Epistles and after these the Prophets the Five bookes of Moses and the Historicall bookes and leaves it to the mother to instruct her or in cafe she were absent to the Aunt He praiseth Marcella that he never came to her but she was asking him somewhat about the Scriptures and tells us that if himselfe had any doubt he would ask her Iudgement In the Epitaph which he wrote upon Paula he saith she had the Bible in her memorie One other passage I cannot omit of Hieroms whereby it may appeare that he would not have women omit any part of the whole Bible for he finds some fault with Algasia when she sent some questions to him only about the Gospells and the Apostles writings that he feared she was not acquainted with the Old Testament I will content my selfe to have propounded these antient examples I might also instance in modern I have in particular taken notice of one notable patterne namely Magdalen the wife of D. Pareus of Heidleberg in my Exercitation upon Malachy Chap. 14. v. 14. where by Digression I have spoken somewhat to this point CHAP. XII The Maximes of Pietie The Conclusion HAving put the Bible into your hands with

Discretion A Schoole which as the report goes that wise man the old Lord Burleigh said he could not finde when being in one of the Vniversities they had shewed him all the publike Schooles It is to be had from God and to be learnt out of the book of God for so saith the Apostle Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdome Col. 3.16 And therefore he writes to the same Colossians We cease not to pray for you Col. 1.9 and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his Gods will in all wisdome and spirituall understanding that ye might walke worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing The knowledge of Gods will instructs in all kind of wisedome to that end that we may walk for we must walk in Col. 4.5 wisdome as becomes us before God and with the good acceptance of men And this highest wisedome God grants only unto those upon whom he bestowes his Sonne Christ as St Paul speakes in another Epistle Eph. 1.6 7 8. God hath made us accepted in the beloved in whom we have Redemption through his bloud the forgivenesse of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us in all wisdome and prudence It is a great advancement to Learning to know what Authors are best to be studied and as they said concerning Christ Whence hath this man this wisdome So would we not be glad to know what politiques Solomon studyed or what authors he read Himselfe tels us Pro. 15.33 The feare of God is the Instruction of wisdome And to the same sense his father King David Psal 111.10 had said The feare of God is the beginning of wisdome This is that wisdome the excellencie whereof I would set forth that it may be desirable We are all apt to desire silver and gold for we know the price of them and therefore we search out the Veines of them and dig for them into the bowells of the earth even into the paths which no foule knoweth and which the vultures eye hath not seene Icb. 28 12 13 c. But where shall wisedome be found Man knoweth not the price thereof Iob tells us somewhat but he cannot tell us the full value It cannot be gotten for gold neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof It cannot be valued with the Gold of Ophir with the pretious Onyx or the Saphire The Gold and the Chrystall cannot equall it and the exchange of it shall not be for Iewels of fine Gold All these expressions are short these things are not worth naming they may not so much as be brought in nomination when there is speech of the election of wisedome for so Iob goes on No mention shall be made of Corall or of Pearles for the price of wisedome is above Rubies The Topaz of Aethiopia shall not equall it neither shall it be valued with pure Gold Solomon was a great searcher after rarities but never met with any thing like this to take up his whole contentment He calleth all other things folly and concludes after a wearie curiositie Eccl. 2.13 I saw that wisedome excelleth folly as farre as light excelleth darknesse And therefore no wonder both that he begged it before all things when God gave him his choyce and also directs all to chuse it Wisdome is the principall thing therfore get wisdome Prov. 4.7 and with all thy getting get understanding 'T is a bargain that will make every one rich She is a Lady that will advance all her kindred for there is a family of this name as our Saviour intimateth where he speaketh of the Children of wisdome Boast not of other bloud or origination But say unto wisdome Prov. 7.4 Thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman What shall I say to Ladies and generally to women Would ye have Beautie If it be true that the Kingly Preacher saith of men A mans wisdome maketh his face to shine Eccl 8.1 It is true also of women that wisdome will make them beautifull and lovely Neither is the usefulnesse of wisdome lesse then the excellencie of it It is the Compasse without which the Architect cannot do any thing It is the magnetick needle without which there can be no Navigation It carries the light before us for want of which all that walke in the darke must needs stumble and fall I will not insist upon the difference that the Schoole makes between wisdome and Prudence I am speaking of them only in a Popular way It is that which directs the Hic and Nunc it Orders us in particular Cases It is that which deliberates upon any thing that is proposed it examines all the Circumstances of a designe that nothing be done rashly but so that a good account may be given of the doing of any thing if it be called for It gives a good grace to every posture Every passion or inordinate affection disguiseth Malice hath a sullen and down-look which dissembling can hardly hide Anger appeares upon the knitted brow Desire discovers it selfe in the eye but Prudence keepes in all these that would gad abroad into the visage to tell what newes within But a speciall use of it is that it corrects the ridiculousness of affectation and artificialnesse There is nothing more vaine then a forced art of seeming wise when laughter speech gesture and every thing is con'd and studied This is slavishnesse not wisdome Wisdome leades on all actions with a kind of nativenesse and honest freedome The others that have all their words out of the Dictionarie and their gestures from the glasse are alwayes in feare and if they happen to be out like formall Preachers that have got a Set of strong lines into their memorie they can hardly recover themselves but talk Nonsense and gibbrish Shall I offer at the description of this prudence It is a grace teaching the heart a decorum in religious and civill Conversation as having deliberated and knowing what our Persons or Conditions will beare or are fit to refuse whereby we may carry our selves right also in the use of things indifferent without excesse or defect and in the use of Christian Policie with pure and undisturbed Consciences It were to write another booke to give the particular advises of wisdome Take things shortly and as they come it may be without method 1. Make memorie a storehouse The reason is because we cannot ordinarily easily be wise without others wisdome 2. Study men and affaires Know the complexion of affaires 3. Be willing to learne of such as are faithfull and that drive no trade or interesse 4. Stand behind the picture and heare what they say that passe by 5. Despise not a Cobler in what he sayes concerning the shooe 6. Beleeve not others flatteries against your own knowledge 7. Beleeve you may have imperfections 8. Take heed of passion which discoulers all things 9. Runne not downe a steep bank consider