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A68568	Ruths recompence: or a commentarie vpon the booke of Ruth wherein is shewed her happy calling out of her owne country and people, into the fellowship and society of the Lords inheritance: her vertuous life and holy carriage amongst them: and then, her reward in Gods mercy, being by an honourable marriage made a mother in Israel: deliuered in seuerall sermons, the briefe summe whereof is now published for the benefit of the Church of God. By Richard Bernard ...	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1628 (1628)	STC 1962; ESTC S101697	273,649	490

labour our bodies wearinesse is the best physicke to cast any one asleepe the idle cannot sleepe they be troubled with dreames and foolish fantasies Wee must also get a quiet spirit so shall we sleepe without feare and this is to bee gotten first by seeking reconciliation with God in Christ so may we lye downe in peace with Dauid Psal 4. 8. 3. 5 Iob 11. 14 19. Acts 12. and not bee afraid this made Peter sleepe soundly in great bodily danger and the Martyrs some of them the night before they went to execution Secondly by shaking off the cares of the world which maketh the worldling that hee cannot Eccles 5. 12. rest Thirdly by suffering no euill to reigne in our hearts as enuie malice lust couetousnesse for these things will not suffer vs to take rest Prou. 4. 16. Fourthly to keepe euer a good conscience towards God and man this is a continuall feast and giueth vs rest That the man was afraid The best are subiect to feare vpon conceit of perill and that suddenly So was Gideon afraid and the Apostles on a sudden and likewise Boaz here and that vpon these reasons First his naturall frailtie and weakenesse of faith which also is in euery one Secondly his ignorance not knowing what it was because she came in vnknowne to him when he was asleepe and in such cases we be more apt to conceit euill towards vs men good because our hearts tell vs that wee bee wicked by nature and deserue euill Thirdly the darke and dead time of the night which is to man fearefull the Psalmist speaketh Psal 91. 5. of the terror of the night We all by experience know how easily mans heart is made fearefull in the darke except in the sonnes of Belial and the children of the kingdome of darkenesse hardned in euill and which make the night the time of their lewde practices yet euen these also will soone bee strucken into sudden feare Fourthly this feare may more suddenly possesse one in the night as here it did Boaz being alone for that Spirits haue taken at such times bodily shapes vpon them and shewed themselues for the night is their time chiefly as may be seene in their comming then most commonly to Witches knowne by their owne confession Let vs therefore hence take notice of this weakenesse which so sheweth it selfe from the loue we beare to our bodies safetie and naturall life Now if wee feare so much for this cause bodily dangers Oh how much more should we feare to commit sinne and the wrath of God for sinne which bring destruction to body and soule without timely repentance And turned himselfe Hee gathered himselfe together shrinking as the manner is of such as in bed being in sleepe fall into a sudden feare and turne to and fro such a forcible operation hath this feare vpon the whole body for to decline from and auoid the danger conceiued nature seeking to saue it selfe in apprehension of perill and that of a sudden This naturall feare is more quicke and sudden to seaze vpon the heart then the spirituall feare to auoide sinne or the displeasure of God and so the danger of the ruine of our soules for this danger is not so soone apprehended here is required the grace of illumination and of faith before this can bee wrought in vs. And behold a woman lay at his feet The feare possessed him without cause And thus it falleth out often Man often feareth without iust cause the Matth. 8. 26. godly through the weakenesse of their faith reprooued by Christ the wicked by their accusing Prou. 28. 1. conscience which maketh them to flie when none pursue them they thinke that euill doth Iob 15. 21. haunt them and perill soundeth in their eares Therefore let the godly labour for strength of faith and the wicked repent and seeke for the peace of a good conscience that they need not to feare Verse 9. And he said Who art thou And shee answered I am Ruth thine handmaid spread therefore thy skirt ouer thine handmaid for thou art a neere kinsman THis is Boaz his questioning with Ruth her answer with a request to him and the reason thereof And he said Who art thou Boaz comming to himselfe moderateth his feare and containeth himself from vnchaste touching and demandeth what she was Wee may note first that though feare possesse wise and godly men vpon a sudden yet they moderate it and are not wholly ouer come therewith for Boaz heere cryeth not out to seruants for helpe neither speaketh to her as one amazed neither falleth he into a rage with her that shee should be occasion of such feare for howsoeuer the feare suddenly seazed vpon him being fast in sleepe before yet was it not childish nor womanish he soone shooke it off as a man of courage hauing confidence in God He mastered his naturall feare and so should wee and not bee ouerswayed therewith as women and children be Secondly That raging lust should not seaze suddenly vpon honest hearts and such as feare God Boaz was with her alone yet doth he not in a filthy affection seeke to dishonest her as Iudah did Thamar being inflamed with lust at the sight of her he did it on the day time he asked not what shee was as Boaz doth here lust would not affoord him that leasure This continencie is praise worthy Gen. 19. in old Boaz as it was before in young Ioseph a vertue as in these commended so commanded by God and much praised in some Heathen who may rise vp in iudgement against our wanton Youth and some lecherous old men whom God doth hate And she answered I am Ruth thine handmaid Thus Ruth calleth her selfe shewing her humility as before in chap. 2. 13. and here by professing what a one shee would be vnto him humble and seruiceable as an handmaiden if shee might obtaine her sute So said Abigail when Dauid sent 2. Sam. 25. 41. to her to take her to wife and so humble and seruiceable was Sarah for shee called Abraham Gen. 18. 6. Lord and in what he commanded she readily obeyed And so should good and vertuous wiues doe still when husbands command but what is honest and iust not that wiues should be counted in condition as seruants for as that is more then they will grant so is it more then husbands of right ought to expect from them that be their yoke-fellowes but what maid-seruants and handmaidens doe of feare and seruile dutie wiues should do of loue with chearefulnes such offices as they ought to performe vnto their husbands who haue authoritie to command Therefore let wiues learne to obey as God commandeth them Ephes 5. 22 33 to doe in all things and that with reuerence as vnto the Lord and as it is sit in the Lord as the Col. 3. 18. Apostle teacheth And doubtlesse there would be more such then we find in these dayes if they might haue Abrahams to their

they bee neuer so able but they must hire others to speake for them by which it commeth to passe that causes are spunne out to an exceeding length and not often faithfully handled for men hired to set their wits and tongues on sale what will they not doe Doth not our age produce enow euill lamentable and cursed fruits hereof And haue we not cause to bewaile the manifold mischiefes and ensuing miseries which this generation of euill men bringeth forth daily among vs Naomi that is come againe out of the countrey of Moab Of her person and returne from that place see before Chap. 1. 6. Here she is propounded as the sales-woman the land she had by Elimelech her husband as the last words of this verse shew as her ioynture or dowrie for wiues had land among the Iewes and Israelites and good 2. King 8. 6. reason there is that wiues should be prouided for by them which haue lands to leaue them because they are one with the husband they haue laboured together and loue binds the husband to haue care for her after death for her comfort her better esteeme euen with her owne children for if they haue any thing then children will loue and honour them and glad will they seeme to be which of them may haue her companie and may please her best but if she haue nothing they will bee as glad which may be rid of her Therefore let husbands haue a care to prouide for them and not bee like some husbands which giue all or most to children and little or nothing to wiues but what Law will giue them and that he may so doe let the wife labour to deserue well of the husband and yet though shee deserue well let him not giue all to her and little to children as some doe and so vndoe both her selfe and children with an after-choise of a bad husband Selleth a parcell of land That is determineth to sell a portion or piece of land left her by Elimelech Shee was growne poore and therefore might sell her land for so we doe reade that the Leuit. 25. 25 29. poore might sell land or houses and this selling and buying is lawfull as wee may see by Gods approbation Gen. 23. and the practice of the godly in buying and selling The manner of purchase and sale and conueyance is shewed in the Prophecie of Ier. 32. 6 44. Ieremie it must be without oppression and this Leuit. 25. 14. will bee auoided if men feare God But the Lord allowed not the sale but vpon necessity hee must Leuit. 25 25. become poore first The Iewish Interpreters vpon that place of Leuiticus say that no man but the poore might sell his inheritance other might not sell to put money in their purses to make marchandize or other things saue onely for food and necessary liuelihood How iustly then are here condemned among vs such as sell their lands for to spend at play to runne a whoring to goe gayly and in costly rayment to keepe Hawkes and Hounds to trauell into Idolatrous countreys to see fashions and to learne not good manners but bad conditions with Apish cōplements Others also which sell their possessions because they would liue idly to put the money out to vsurie and so liue lazily but yet cursedly vpon the sweate of other mens browes These and the other should say with Nbaoth God forbid that I should sell my fathers inheritance especially selling as these doe to bestow and lay out the mony so accursedly But let such Vnthrists know which sell their land to waste vpon their lust that they doe wickedly rob their posterity they weaken their present estate they bring vpon themselues beggery and so contempt and misery and that very iustly and do as much as lieth in them roote out their names from the places where their Ancestours by Gods blessing had planted them and when all is spent they expose themselues to many temptations to take lewd courses to helpe themselues which bring many to a shamefull end Let them remember that if they cannot liue with their estates how can they liue without them Paines they cannot take they haue idly beene brought vp which often is the cause of this prodigality to beg they bee ashamed because of reproach iustly to light vpon them therefore must they fall to stealing and so come that way into the Magistrates hands that they may be punished for their former villanies which the Magistrate took no notice of or made no conscience to punish Which was our brother Elimelechs Thus Boaz calleth him who was but his kinsman though neere This was vsuall among the Iewes and Israelites so to call one another yea it is obseruable that Gods people in all ages haue called one another brethren before the Law vnder the Law Gen. 14. 14. Exod. 2. 11. Leuit. 19. 17. Deut. 13. 19. Rom. 1. 13. Mat. 6. Gal. 4. 26. 1. Pet. 2. 17. Rom. 12. 10. Heb. 13. 1. 1. Thes 4. 9. 1. Ioh. 3. 14. and in the time of the Gospell and good reason so to do for they haue all one Father and all one Mother Which should teach vs brotherly loue one towards another to loue as brethren that is with respect to our Father and wee his adopted Children for whoso after this manner loueth is translated from death to life Also such as loue like brethren are familiar they haue a feeling of each others estate both in prosperity and aduersity reioycing or sorrowing as it falleth out and that because they be brethren they doe also shew readinesse to helpe one another as brethren should doe and they hold it a shame to do them wrong Therefore let vs loue and loue as brethren and try it by these true brother-like markes of loue which if a man doe hee shall find little brotherly loue among men for few loue a man in this respect as he is the Child of God few are familiar with the vertuous for their vertues sake And who mourneth with them in the true cause of their mourning or reioyceth with them in their ioy If men so doe where is their helping hand to further their ioy or to helpe them when they be troubled for righteousnesse sake Verse 4. And I thought to aduertise thee saying Buy it before the Inhabitants and before the Elders of my people If thou wilt redeeme it redeeme it but if thou wilt not redeeme it then tell me that I may know for there is none to redeeme it besides thee and I am after thee And hee said I will redeeme it BOaz here sheweth why he telleth the kinsman of Naomi her selling of land to offer him the sale first In which offer note First what the offer is to buy it then before whom Thirdly the manner of propounding it as left free to his choise to redeeme or not to redeeme Fourthly the reason why offered to him in the first place and that by Boaz. Lastly the kinsmans answer