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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56510	Oeconomica sacra, or, A parænetical discourse of marriage together with some particular remarks on the marriage of Isaac and Rebecca.	J. P.	1685 (1685)	Wing P62; ESTC R6	38,180	146

sub●git Bodin They exceeding other Nations in Piety as one observes by this they conquered all the world besides And St. Chrysostome tells us that Princes without learning and the fear of God manage but lamely their greatest Affairs and are blind in discretion and knowledge The Piety of an Agesilaus brought him both Honour and Success the Devotion of a Numa and a Fabius made them formidable and glorious And we have read of a Law of one of our Danish Kings that at the Assizes the Bishop was obliged to accompany the Judge that the one might countenance Gods Law and the other Mans in Imitation of Jehosaphat who sent the Levites with his Princes 2 Chron. 17.6 to teach in the Cities of Judah We pass over the Piety of Charles the great who used to set his Crown on the Bible of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth who when the Bible was presented to her by the Citizens of London kiss'd it and laid it to her Breasts and the Examples of Princes are of great force to promote Devotion in the People Regis ad Exemplum was a saying of old and all Ages have confirmed it Now when Religion is settled it produces peace and a general happiness which produceth peaceable Society the Improvement of Arts and Sciences Trade and Commerce and on these depend the happiness of a State We pass over the sad effects of War and Hostility of Rapine and Bloodshed and all those Evertores horrifici those Devastations which succeed it How are Temples and Antiquities razed to the ground and Religion spuriated into Heresie and Schism all which cease by reason the cause is taken away and the State preserved from Forreign Invasions and Civil Dissensions Here we may see how things are chained and linkt together and how naturally effects flow from their causes and how Family-government where the Father governs his Children and they again obey their Parents bears so strict an Analogy and semblance between a Prince and his People and Family-government a little Model and pattern of National Discipline which was erected first from Paternal Administrations For 'till Nimrod's time who Erected the first Monarchy National Noah and his Generations as Paraeus tells us Par familias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paraeus in Gen. did rule gently by their Families But in Process of time the World growing exceeding Populous thô the several Families of the Earth did and doe retain their Oeconomy and first Prescriptions for their particular Order and Decorum they are since Politically united and a whole Land or Nation under an Uniformity of Government and as it were so many thousands of Families incorporated into one Body for a common Strength and Preservation Here the Sagacity of Man under the Divine Conduct is very visible Vis unita f●●tim Lord Bacon 's Esssays all Estates subscribe to Unity as the Mother and Foundation of Concord and Preservation and by this Polity not only Sacred and Civil Rights are preserved but settled and confirmed and Nimrod was the first Prosecutor hereof and changed the Paternal Government into National Monarchy and the Genius of his aspiring Nature instructed him in this principle of Policy which very word is derived from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Sell whence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a City and metonymically taken to signifie Commerce and Trade in a Society of men which did ensue and was in the greatest measure augmented by National Government Now this Nimrod in Scripture is styled a mighty Hunter Viribus ro●●stis 〈◊〉 discretus Tostatus in loc And Tostatus speaks of him being strong in Body and Discreet in mind by the Engine of his Wit and Art of Gratification and by heaping good turns on Injured Persons did engage a multitude to his Party Vnde dominandi Occasionem na●ius regn●m obtulit Muscul in loc by whose assistance he pursued men as a Hunter does Beasts whereupon sayes Musculus he obtained a Kingdom by his Valour and Victory the rude and barbarous People being reduced to Civil Government Musculus St. Chrysostome Cornelius a Lapide Mercer and Rivet in Locum which Conquest by most Commentators is ascribed to the Vigour of his Body and Virtue of his Mind surpassing others by his Humanity and Benignity he got together a Party whereby he subdued his Opposites and settled his Government But since it hath been the general Policy of succeeding Ages by Marriage and Affinity to perpetuate that in their Families which he only obtained by Craft and Subtilty witness the Royal Families of the World ever since a Soveraignty and Superiority having been generally successive Moses Joshua Samuel c. except only when it pleased God to inspire and adapt some particular men for the Government of his People in the Primitive times And thus Marriage hath not only Intailed Soveraignty on their Posterity but also settled the common Peace Trade and Commerce of one Nation and State with another hath promoted Alliances of common preservations against the Enemies of Gods Church and whereby several Countreys have enjoyed the Commodities and Manufactures of each other for a mutual good and advantage Solomon Married Pharaoh's Daughter and settled a Trade and Commerce with the Aegyptians What reconciled the Chaldeans to Cyrus but Marriage what reconciled the Sabines to the Romans Marriage they were Enemies and Friends both in one days time Salubrem providentiam Seneca which Seneca styles an healing Providence What reconciled Pompey and Caesar after so much Fighting and Blood-shed but Marriage Which way did Alexander reconcile and allye Asia to Europe but by Marriage And our Politick Henry the Seventh Marrying the Lady Elizabeth Heir of the House of York ingrafted the white Rose on the Red and so put a Period to those Civil Dissentions which had caused so much Blood-shed and by Marrying of his two Daughters entituled his Heirs to the French Interest and Crown of Scotland And in short the Soveraign Houses of Christendome being a Kin to each other by Marriage the Peace of Christendome and other parts have been preserved thereby Firmissimum Imperii munimentum Tacitus an and Tacitus calls it the most strong Preservative of Empire And if these Obligations were but duly observed by Nations and Families what Halcion dayes would be found on Earth this Contract of Mankind should be like that Golden Chain which reaches from Earth to Heaven preserving the mutual coherence of the Elements whereby all things are reciprocally tyed together and make this lower World like the Imperial Heavens where all the motions of the comprehending Orbs the several Const●●●tions the various position of the Stars and Planets produce a ravishing Chorus and an Harmony truly beautiful And what peace and quiet too as the Emanations of this sacred Friendship would be established and what a series of Hacentia's and pleasing Contentations slow from it 't would lead us up to the via Lactea and usher us with Musick to the presence of Divinity Having spoken