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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

euen Kings themselues are altogether without strength Psa 18 33 34 35 Iam. 1. sauing that God doth gird them with might whereof being depriued presently the become weake and feeble Sure it is that the strength of the body euen as euery good gift commeth from God aboue in whom we liue doe moue and haue our being yet so notwithstanding as God doth not exclude our endeauour no not so much as in the worke of sanctification Acts 17.28 1. Tim 8 16 Ia. 4 5 8 9 10. much lesse in the worke of this life for the performance whereof there remaineth not so great strength after the blot of sinne And first of all she may well be said to gird her loines and her armes with strength for that shee excerciseth her selfe and her body with labor for as by idlenes slothfulnes the strength is enfeebled in some sort as yron vnused is eaten with rust so by moderate exercise the strength is increased augmented Hereof is it that husbandmen laborors hauing their health the slothfull sluggish are oppressed with sundry diseases Furthermore in another respect shee may well bee said to strengthen her loines and her armes for that shee conceiueth great hope to perfect these things which shee taketh in hand For there are many which of a faint-hartednesse and base dispaire of their minde dare not enterprise any excellent thing or hauing begunne it out of an opinion of difficulty to finish that which they haue imagined to themselues doe cast it out of their hands vnexpected So comes it to passe that through a vile and base feare and distrust they doe as it were lay bands vpon themselues and being fettered hand and foote they become vnfit and vnable for any notable worke wherein there appeareth any shew of difficulty Hereof the Israelites setting before themselues the height of the wals of the land of Canaan the taulnes of the men reiecting alll hope of vanquishing that Country beganne to thinke of returning into Egypt Numb 13.32 Deut. 1. This cowardnesse and basenesse of minde in those that belong vnto the Kingdome of Heauen is greater for although there are some which haue found the way and life very easie yet many also are so discouraged with the difficulty thereof that they will not once enter into this course Which thing is manifestly declared in the words of Moses Deut. 30.11.12.13.14.15 Also 1. Iohn 5.3 and Math. 11.30 Heere the cause as often els where is inserted as well of this which hath gone before as of other effects which doe follow to wit that shee findeth the fruit of her labour to be good and to haue good speede in those things which shee hath labored And this hee amplifieth by a comparison of the like For as hee which tasteth good and delicate meates neuer proued before with the sweetnesse thereof is entised and egged on to procure the same againe although it bee with some hard and sharpe labor so this woman being taught by the experience of the fruit of her labour and industry doth the more cheerefully follow the same Those therefore which are sloathfull and idle for as much as they reape no fruit of their idlenesse are not stirred vp with any desire to labour Such also as with labour wearying both themselues and theirs doe notwithstanding receiue none at all or very small fruite of their paines because God not being called vpon by them refuseth to giue his blessing these men also must needes faint vnder the burden of their labours Psal 127 1 2 Hag. 1 6 ● As on the contrary this woman whose labours God by his blessing doth prosper making wonderfull gaine is encouraged to vndergoe her paines And no doubt but the Israelites when they had once tasted of the fruites of the land of Canaan did the more couragiously ioine battell with the inhabitants thereof Euen as also we see that good senting hounds with the onely sent of the beast which they doe course doe mend their pace and with greater swiftnesse doe chase their pray On the contrary it comes to passe in many who when as through the blessing of God vpon their honest labours they are grone to some wealth do giue themselues to idlenesse and to their pleasures till they haue wasted that which they had gotten with paine This in matters belonging to the life to come is more euidently perceiued for that so many hearers of the Gospell doe so coldly frequent the assemblies of the Church in the preaching of the Gospell administration of the Sacraments and other ordinary seruice of God it proceeds from no other cause but this that they haue not tasted the fruit of the forgiuenesse of their sinnes euen the peace of conscience Whereas if so be they had but tasted onely how good the Lord is it cannot be vttered with what feruentnesse and zeale they would runne vnto the meetings of the Church and would thirst after them Psal 42.1 Iam. 2.1.2 3. as the Hart chased by the dogges thirsteth after the waters There followeth another effect of the efficient cause before declared which is that her light is not put out by night It was said before that she preuenteth the day Now he addeth that she so abideth to her worke that she maketh not an end of her worke with the day but draweth it forth and continueth it a great part of the night Neither doth she as some doe labour by fits but persisteth and perseuereth constantly in her workes Hereof may be gathered that she breaketh her sweete sleepe For rising so early and going to bed so late especially when she hath beene painefull in her worke the sounder sleepe must needes fal vpon her so as she but with some violence doth not awake Which thing is to be obserued of all both men and women For as it is not lawfull to eate vnto a fulnes so likewise it is not lawful to sleepe so long till we haue satisfied our lust It hath bin said before how this woman of strength appointed maides their taske he now addeth further that she doth her selfe set her hands to worke Hitherto also pertaineth she busieth her selfe in the same kinde of worke with her maides handling the whele and the distaffe one after another Although it be not vnlikely that she did spinne finer and costlier woole and flaxe yet it is certaine that it was laboursome and painefull both the wheele the spindle whereto she was to put her strength and vse her might For to what end is it that it was sayd before that shee girdeth her selfe with strength but that she should haue need of strength to do her worke Wherto also pertaineth that which is spoken in this verse that she putteth both her hands to the spindle For it is a thing layde vpon all the posteritie of Adam not only to labour but to labour hardly and with paine For notwithstanding that God hath appointed vnto women such workes as haue lesse wearisomnes in them in