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A20524	Bathshebaes instructions to her sonne Lemuel containing a fruitfull and plaine exposition of the last chapter of the Prouerbs. Describing the duties of a great-man, and the vertures of a gracious woman. Penned by a godly and learned man, now with God. Perused, and published for the use of Gods church, by Iohn Dod, and William Hinde.	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625, attributed name.	1614 (1614)	STC 6935; ESTC S109713	33,460	85

right of the children of affliction Verse 6. Giue strong drinke vnto him that is ready to perish and wine to those that are grieued in minde Verse 7. Let him drinke that hee may forget his pouerty and may remember his griefe no more THe scope drift of these verses is to instruct and enforme Kings and such as are in authority and rich men concerning the lawfull and moderate vse of wine In the Lawe many kindes of meates were forbidden vnto all men and consequently vnto Kings but wee do not read of any kindes of drinkes that were thereby restrained but onely from certaine particular persons Numbers 6. Wherefore at the first appearance it seemeth somewhat strange and differing from the lawe which is heere commaunded and the rather for that the drinking of wine is here forbidden to Princes to whom of all others as in meates so also in drinkes delicacy is most iustly allowed as well for that they are well furnished with meanes to procure them as also for that dainties of meates and drinks are most fit for them to maintaine their royall port and dignity Whither also may be added that they being pressed and ouercharged with most waighty affaires it seemeth they should chiefly be recreated and refreshed with such comforts of this life But he which shall more thoroughly search into these words shall easily perceiue that the vse of wine is not heere forbidden but the immoderate and excessiue drinking of it which as it is by the Apostle condemned in all men Ephes 5.18 So in Kings it is most offensiue as those who both by their example do most hurt and also for that their wits confounded and robbed with excesse of wine must needes cause corrupt and false iudgement for both it is an hinderance to the finding out of iustice in suites and actions and also must needes drawe them into error in giuing sentence and iudgement Hereof it is that Salomon sayth Eccles 10 16. Eccl. 10 16 17 Woe vnto thee ô land whose King is a child and whose Princes eate in the morning and blessed art thou ô land vvhose King is the son of Nobles and vvhose Princes eate in time for strength and not for drunkennesse Hitherto also may bee referred that which is in the tenth of Leuiticus Leu. 10 1 9 that by the onely fault of the sonnes of Aaron bringing strange fire vnto the alter there was a lawe giuen of God that the Priests so long as they were in the Tabernacle and Temple and did minister the holy things should not once taste wine so that that there is a more sparing and strict vse of it in the Ministery than in the ciuill Magistracie To whom of all men the drinking of wine was neuer denied as vnto the Ministers vnder the lawe at certaine times which seueritie of the Lavve seemeth to bee mitigated in the Ministers vnder the Gospell 1. Tim. 5.23 But the excesse is described by the cause viz. the desire of vvine and strong drinke for as of mony the vse of it is not forbidden but the coueting and loue of it so also of wine not the vse but the desiring and lusting after it by which immoderate vse men fall to ryot It is also worthy the obseruing that shee describeth the discommoditie of the immoderate vse of vvine by forgetting iudgement and that which is by the lawe prescribed and thereby she teacheth that by the excessiue vse of strong drinke euen the skilfullest and most learned in the lawe doe swarne from equitie and iustice to the end that no man trusting to his owne skil and redinesse of his wit should allowe himselfe the more liberty in drinking for although wine doth not presently take away the knowledge of the lawe yet entring into the braine it doeth for a time cause a forgetfulnesse of equity and iudgement both in those which according to the lawe doe purpose to giue sentence and also much more in those which do not encline to iustice Ose 4.11 Notwithstanding the continuall vse of it or abuse rather doth altogether weaken the minde and vnderstanding It is also of no smal force to diswade Iudges from ouermuch drinking of wine least they change the iudgement of those which bring their causes before them whom here she doth call the children of affliction by which manner of speech she seemeth to meane all those which do bring iust causes in suite against others for although they be placed in a diuers degree of affliction and some more then others are oppressed and ouercharged with griefe yet there is none which bringeth a good cause before a Iudge but that hee is affected with griefe for some iniury that is offered him but now with newe affliction to ouercharge him which was already grieued and troubled with the suite it selfe is both vniust and cruell and as in euery iudgement a most sparing vse of wine is to bee obserued so especially in capitall matters and matters of life and death It is also the duty of Kings and princes to prouide that those which are great men in the common weale and doe sit as Iudges be not giuen to wine and good Bathsheba in this her exhortation to her sonne with Kings doth ioine other Princes In the 6. and 7. verses shee prooueth by the contrary that wine is not to bee giuen to Kings and Princes because it is to be giuen to those that are ready to perish and to such as are heauy in minde to those that are employed in iudgement rather then to Iudges rather to the afflicted then to such as liue in all plenty and aboundance Hereof was that laudable custome among the people of God that a man dying his friends should be by others inuited to a banquet and that there should be giuen them a cup of consolation Ier. 16. farre otherwise then now is vsed amongst vs whereas the widowes that are ouercharged with griefe for the death of their husbands doe make a banquet to their neighbours and kinsfolke hereof also it may be came that custome of making those drinke which are going to execution both among vs and among the people of God as may be gathered by the story of the sufferings of Christ where it may be demaunded why Christ refused to drinke wine Mar. 15.23 when it was offered contrary to that which the holy ghost doth here commaund by Bathsheba The answere is that for the same ca●se Christ refused to drinke wine for the which it is here commanded least forgetting the torments and paines which he suffered for vs hee should not pay the iust prize of our sinnes Wherefore that he might remember vs he would forget himselfe neither would he giue himselfe liberty to drinke wine before the punishment due vnto our sinnes was quite taken away and satisfied which ought to teach vs that wee ought for the good of our neighbour to abstaine from wine 1. Cor. 8.13 Rom. 14.23 But whereas it is not lawfull for those that are ready to

that it is the part of a good wife to please her husband in all things so farre as it may agree with the duty of a good and godly woman for if for his good shee doth sometimes that which may displease him shee doth not against her duty Hitherto therefore shee ought to bend her endeauor that shee may be praised without all exception But there are to bee found many women of whom it is said shee is a faithfull and chast woman but yet a froward peece shee is a good wife but curst and somewhat too talkatiue and hasty to answere But of this woman it is generally said that shee is loiall gentle perfect in euery iust good duty Afterwards this duty is amplified by the adiunct of the length of time that is to say all the daies of his life It is growen to a common Prouerbe amongst vs to call the first moneth after mariage the hony moon Wherby men wil shew that the beginnings of mariage are pleasant but that there follow after many bitter yeeres By another similitude also they do compare the ioy of a widow desiring mariage to a fire of thornes which after a short blaze is presently put out and quenched But this duty of a godly woman is not comprehended in lesse then the whole life of time For she will not onely do good to her husband whilest he is young but when he is old also not only in health but also in sicknesse not only in prosperitie but also in aduersitie And these duties are also to be performed of the husband toward his wife and so much the more grieuously doth hee offend if hee swarne from his dutie in as much as God hath made him more strong and furnished him with greater gifts Verse 13. She seeketh wooll and flaxe and worketh it according to the willingnesse of her hands Verse 14. Shee is like the ships of the Merchant Shee fetcheth her foode from farre Verse 15. And rising vvhile it is yet night shee giueth the portion to her house and the ordinary to her maids Verse 16. She thinketh of a field which she taketh of the fruites of her hand she planteth a Vineyard THis care for prouiding of wool and flaxe seemeth little to agree with the wife of Salomon so magnificent a King for whom it should seeme to bee more fit to be carefull to deck and trimme her selfe by the glasse that her beautie might be the more gracious and pleasing vnto the King but especially it seemeth to differ much from the roiall dignitie and Princely maiestie that she should with her owne hands handle the distaffe and as it followeth after in the 19. verse that shee should put her hands to the wheele her hands hold the spindle For it seemeth she should sufficiently discharge the dutie of a mother of a family if she do cause her maidens and seruants to doe this But howsoeuer things may seeme to vs and our carnall iudgement iudging of duty according to the present shewe notwithstanding the wisedome of God hath thought this to agree with the Maiestie of the greatest Princes that they should exercise themselues both in these and other duties belonging to women Wee read of Sara Gen. 18 6 7 who beeing a great Princesse yet shee kneaded dough Gen. 27 9 17 and dressed meate Of Rebecca wee read how by her cunning in cookery she was able to counterfait meates to cause that to appeare to be venison which indeed was not 2. Sam. 13 5 6 9 Of Thamar the Kings daughter how shee was so well practiced in cookery that shee was able to make daintie and pleasant meates for her brother faining himselfe sicke In this our age if any woman be of more noble birth or haue riches aboue others their manner is to bee so proud and disdainefull that they thinke nothing may beseeme their greatnesse but what is ioined with notable idlenesse and ceasing from all honest businesse they may handle nothing which may make their hands hard do nothing which may impaire their beauty Gen. 20 1 It appeareth by holy Scriptures that Sara and Rebecca euen in their olde age kept the traces and features of their beautie they had in their youth and therfore no doubt but they had a care to continue their beauty that they might be most gracious and pleasing to their husbands but that through this care of their beauty they did cease from all honest labour and businesse it neither can agree with their duty nor with those excellent vertues wherewith they were endued But if to Princesses and honorable women it be not allowed to be idle and to cease from honest businesse whereas they notwithstanding in regard of the weakenesse of their sexe both are and ought to bee fauoured aboue others can it bee lawfull for men to take vnto them this licence to liue at their pleasure without any imployment Wherein the men of our age doe more grieuously offend then the women For what man is there that hath rents and possessions aboue the common sort which by this bountifulnesse of God towards him doth not thinke himselfe freed and discharged from all honest imployment so as hee thinketh he is in good state if abstaining from doing wrong to others he doe in the meane time giue himselfe to all loosenes of minde spending his time both in hunting hauking and other pleasures of this life Furthermore whereas shee doth her selfe seeke wooll and flaxe not staying till they should be prouided by her husband hereby is set forth her readinesse to labor which is proued by the words following for whereas he saith that shee doth these things according to the willingnesse of her hands hee doth thereby teach that shee doth readily and cheerefully goe about her worke wherein aboue all things her strength is declared For such things as are laid vpon vs by reason of our calling ought to be done merrily and with a cherefull minde for like as the sunne like a giant doth gird it selfe that it may in 24. houres runne his whole circuit about the world so likewise ought wee to stirre and raise vp our selues to that worke which is laid vpon vs. Men therefore which haue a minde of more courage and are of greater strength of body may bee ashamed to lye downe vnder the burden of such labors as are enioyned them And this cherefulnesse is therefore propounded that he may shew that thereby the worke is the more easily and speedily dispatched Verse 14. It is though that the wife hath sufficientlie performed her duty if shee doe safely preserue and keepe those things which her husband hath brought in But the holy Ghost teacheth vs that it is the wiues duety to prouide those things wherewith the familie is fed and not such things onely as are neere at hand but which also are brought from farre countries from whence hee sheweth that shee fetcheth them in marchants ships because shee bringeth her foode from farre Wherein seemeth some