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A43038	Divine meditations upon some of the virtuous, and vitious women, in the Scriptures wherein, as in a glass, every one may see their own faces; whether fair, or foul; deformed, or comely. A work worthy their spare-hours; which, by the grace of God, may work an holy emulation in many, either to equal, or out-vie their sex in virtue. By William Harvey, minister of the Word of God.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1092B; ESTC R216453	24,926	90

DIVINE MEDITATIONS Upon Some of the Virtuous and Vitious WOMEN in the SCRIPTURES Wherein as in a Glass every one may see their own Faces whether Fair or Foul Deformed or Comely A Work worthy their Spare-Hours which by the Grace of God may work an holy Emulation in many either to Equal or Out-vie their SEX in VIRTUE By WILLIAM HARVEY Minister of the WORD of GOD. A Virtuous Woman is a Crown to her Husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rotteness in his Bones Prov. xii 4. Who can finde a Virtuous Woman For her price is far above Rubies Prov. xxxi 10. Contraria juxta se posita magis elucescunt LONDON Printed for the Authour 1661. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS of South-Hampton And the COUNTESS of North-Hampton WILLIAM HARVEY wisheth all Happiness in this life and that which is to come RIGHT Honourable and Virtuous Ladies when I pitched upon this Subject I had You in my Thoughts my Ambition was to beg your Patronage As Your Fortunes so are Your Virtues parallel and like the Gemini in the Zodiack embrace each other Your Titles of Honour are remote and distinct opposite to other but as the needle in the Compass You ever tend to one star and with the King's Daughter are both glorious within I shall present to Your view a Tragi-Comedy the Actours be all Women though their parts differ Here You have Virtue and Vice displayed both brought upon the Stage in lively Colours To attract Your attention the Several Scenes are Sacred for each Theme is drawn from Holy Writ an no Water but that which flows from the pure Fountains of the Scriptures Your Honours must not expect any Plot or Aenigmatical passages to puzzle rather then please the Spectatours neither look for sublime and high expressions for the Subject being feminine the matter must not speak big Here Your Ladiships shall see plain dealing and every woman's praise or dispraise as she deserves If any one's mouth open they bark not at me but God for I have spoken nothing but that which the Holy Ghost thought fit to Record The ultimate end is God's Glory the next an holy imitation and detestation either of Vice or Virtue As Contraries put together do illustrate each other So Sanctitie and Impiete oppositely placed will by far seem more lovely or loathsom Should we at once behold a glorious Sun at one hand brightly shining in a serence and clear day with no Cloud interposing and on the other hand the Moon totally eclipsed with thick and black Clouds o'respreading the whole face of the Heavens from whence proceeded fearfull Thunderings and Lightnings with impetuous Storms and Tempest threatning another deluge of Waters to drown this great World again how dreadfull would the one and how amiable and delightfull would the other seem Grace of it self is lovely but compared with sin will look more lovely So a gracious Woman compar'd with one tht is graceless how transcendent I humbly desire Your Honours acception and pardon and rest Your Honours humble servant WILLIAM HARVEY The meanest of them that serve at the Altar TO THE HONOVRABLE AND VERTVOVS LADY the LADY HILLIARD of W. Horsly in Surrey Grace Mercey and Peace MADAM SHould I have left You out I had been guilty of much Ingratitude which is a thing so foul as that alone objected is sufficient to make one odious to God and man Your Ladyship hath often supplyed my Necessities and never did I return from You empty As Philip the Eunuch You have many a time made me go away rejoycing for the Oil of Your Goodness never stayed so long as there was a Vessel more to receive it I know Your Ladyship affects not Popularity neither would have a Trumpet blown before You being confident that Your Right hand was ever ignorant of the Actions of Your Left That God which seeth in Secret reward You openly This is onely to express my Thankfullness for all Your noble Favours and to let the World know how much I am obliged to You. Again who should protect Virtue but the Virtuous A glorious Frontispiece speaks somewhat within and often begets a Desire of Inspection So Virtue We say from a handsome and comely Person is more Acceptable So Books owned and protected by Noble Wights have the better Entertainment from those Hands they happen to fall into But I will detain the Reader no longer A Small City must have Gates proportionable lest it run out Thus in all Observance I Rest Your Ladyships humble Servant WILLIAM HARVEY DIVINE MEDITATIONS First Meditation upon Eve THIS was the Mother of us all the Common Womb of the World Here man had his first rise and descent And as Rivers come from the Sea So all have their Breath from her But O my heart As Jepthah brake out with Sorrow and Reluctancy when his Daughter came out to meet him So must we needs Say (a) Judges xi 35. Aliss our Mother thou hast brought us very low and thou art one of them that troublest us Hinc illae lacrbymae This is the cause of my Wo and makes my tears trickle down like a Shower of Rain Thou wast the cause of our life true we must acknowledge it But withall through thy Fall the whole World fell with thee O the Sad Catastrophe Into what a Sea of miseries didst thou plunge thy Progeny Now nothing but wringing of hands In (b) Matt. ii 18. Rama was there a voice heard lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachel weeping for her Children and would not be Comforted because they were not Upon this thy lapse it had been better for us we had never been born never seen the Sun that glorious Lamp of Heaven An Ugly Yoad or fell Dragon is in a happier condition All Sensitive and Vegetative Creatures far transcend the Rational The eating of one Apple shook the Vniverse and made the Stars fall from heaven By thee we lost Paradise not a Terrestrial onely but a Cel●stial But this is not all the one half of our miseries is not told us Our wretchedness and infelicitie (c) 1 King x. 7. exceed the fame that ye have heard How my Soul trembles My Thoughts trouble me the joynts of my Loyns are loosed and my Knees for fear smite one against another Belshazzar's sad Catastrophe is ours Through thee we lost not heaven (d) Poena Damni alone enough to cause a Nabal's heart to dye within him and become like a Stone but likewise gained that of (e) Poena Sensus Sense (f) Isaiah xxx 33. A Tophet a Yelling and Confused Pit made deep and large the Pile whereof is Fire and much Wood and the Breath of the Lord like a Stream of Brimston doth Kindle it The prayer of Saint Augustine shall be ever mine Here O Lord bu●… me to ashes cut my body to pieces that thou mayest save me for the future O let my Soul live with Thee and no matter though I suffer in

this world a thousand exquisite deaths (g) Job xxxviii 2. But who is this that darkens Counsel without Knowledge (h) Chap. xl 5. Once have I spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further How is wretched man (i) Quantum multatus ab illo altered What a glorious change upon the Sudden The heavens Smile upon us all is Serene and clear No dire Eclipse or dark Cloud to obscure our Sun Man reassume thy Courage Wipe of the Tears from thy Cheeks behold a harmeless Dove comes to thee with an Olive branch in her mouth and the Waters are abated O golden Sentence (k) Gen. iii. 15. The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's head No Honey or Honey-Comb so Sweet I am even Ravished with the Contemplation and as it were rapt into the third Heaven Now Satan do thy worst thy Venom is spit (l) Psal cxlvi 1 2. Praise ye the Lord Praise the Lord O my Soul While I live will I praise the Lord I will Sing praises unto my God while I have any being Eve thou hast now given us Heaped measure pressed down and running over A full Compensation hast thou made us Thy and our God hath caused thee to be Instrumental in our Restauration By Faith in that promised Messiah to come art thou Saved and we by Faith in him as Come already dead buried risen and ascended into heaven In thy State of Innocency thou hadst free will but subject to temptation Yet thy Fault was freely perpetrated and not committed by Coaction Thou hadst power from above to Stand thank thy Self for thy fall Thy destruction is of thy self O Israel Sweet Father whom thou lovest now thou lovest ever We may fall into Sin and fall again but not finally nor totally Thy Promises in Christ Jesus are without Repentance like the Law of the Medes and Persians they alter not Heaven and Earth shall pass away but Thy word shall not fail O Lord Support us with thy Grace and Sweet Influences of thy blessed Spirit that we fall into no Sin If thou forstake us we perish Let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall Father Cloath us with Humility as with a Garment and make us Sensible of the heavy Weight of our Sins As weary and heavy-laden let us make to him who took our Transgressions upon him that knew no Sin that we may have Rest even the forgiveness of all our Sins lest they sink us into irrecoverable Perdition O Jesu sis mihi Jesus Amen 2. Meditation upon Sarah THis may be the World's Mistress or the Females Tutouress to learn her Sex Obedience She knew well that Man was not made for the Woman but the contrary and therefore tends the end of her Creation She scorns to stand in Competition with her Husband but nulls a paritie and calls him Lord. A Scanctified Woman is a rare Creature having more Lustre in her then any twinkling Star How calm the Sea is when there 's no wind stirring Her house is as Silent as the night There is no Pro and Con for no sooner said but done Happy that Man in the fruition of such a Wife He is (a) Prov. xxxi 23. known in the Gates when he sitteth among the Elders of the Lord. No Harmony like to Still-Musick The Man eats drinks and sleeps in quiet No disturbance where there is such a Consort for his days are prolonged he dyes in peace and is gathered to his Fathers in a good old age Here 's an help meet for him because in two distinct Bodies there 's but one Soul O what Contentment is there where there is such an accord In such a well-tuned Instrument there can be no flaw but every Touch enchanteth the ear and attracts attention To you then whose Lot is fallen into so fair a ground Be not you Imperial and unnatural Prove not unkind to a Spouse so lovely who hath made you all as so many Pompeys nad Caesars Return love for love and grieve not causeless so harmless a Creature Suffer not a Tear to sully so Sweet a Face but tender her contentment as the Apple of your Eye Who in his right Wits would injure such a Bed-fellow Compare Light and Darkness Heaven and Hell with a perverse woman to Such a Wife and what a vast disproportion If ever there was a Paradise on Earth it 's here Except the Fear of God and the Joys of Heaven alone to such a woman there is no compare Let no Churlish Nabal ever kiss her Lips much less crop the flower of her Youth A Wight so rarely accomplished let no rude hand attempt once to touch 3. Meditation upon Rebekah MOdest and faithfull Rebekah thou comest next to hand a Daughter well becoming such a Mother Thou shamest not thy kind for thou enjoyest her vertues Thou Chast Penelope How many may blush to read thee The unplucked Rose and Lilly not more pure No Snow in Salmon whiter Thou wast as innocent as a new-born Babe true as the Turtle-done to her Mate and though married ever a Virgin Like Joseph thou wert of Canon-proof and no assault could once Seale thy Walls As a well-disciplined Army none could break thy Ranks but alwaies thou puttest the Enemy to a rout O thou one of a thousand unparalell'd incomparable woman What Bays sufficient to Crown thy Temples Thy memory is Sweet and Lovely and thy chost fellows praise thee How an I transported with thee My Genius promp me and yet alass my Pen falls short of her encomiums Look into this Prospective you weaker vessels behold a lively pattern for your imitation Cast your eyes upon this Sampler and write after this fair Copy Your Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost defile them not then No unclean thing can enter heaven Shake off your Paramours if you love your Souls and be faithfull to your married beds Wrong not your Husbands your own flesh your precious Souls It will be bitterness in the later end believe me God is pure and hates all uncleanness Cast not away that better part which is capable of Immortality Your pleasures are but momentary which so soon as injoyed vanish 4. Meditations upon Abigail WIse Abigail thou art now my Subject pity a Fool should have been thy Husband for Nabal was his name and folly was with him He was a Churl too that hadst thou not been wise one house had been too little for both A Crooked piece of Timber sometime is in a fair Building and a perverse man my have a compleat woman else the whole Fabrick would fall This is none of the meanest blessings had a man but eyes to see it Setting the Grace of God aside and the ornaments of the Soul a vertuous woman hath no Peer See how this fair Water quencheth the violence of Fire David is resolved to cut off root and branch all that appertained to Nabal Like Jehu he marcheth Furiously intent upon Revenge for the