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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

grace before goods and wisedome before the world though where grace is if goods may come with it it is a blessing and the better to be liked of for helpe to vphold the burthen of marriage And they dwelt there about tenne yeeres Whether this time beginneth at their first cōming or after this marriage is not certaine but it is ten yeeres before Naomi heares of the Lords visiting of Israel with plenty It is a long time for a godly woman to bee kept from Gods people and publike seruice of his name Dauid lamented it much Psal 120. 5. and desired the presence of God and his Tabernacle Psal 84. 1 4. In Moab was corporall plenty but not spirituall for the one the other was neglected Such is our corruption a comon sinne now I wish it had not taken possession of the best But besides this we may further note how a heauy calamity may long rest vpon Gods people we may reade of a famine three yeres and a halfe in Achabs daies three yeeres in Dauids time 2. Sam. 21. 1. 1. King 17. 1. Luke 4. 25. and seuen yeeres at another time 2. King 1. and here also for a great many of yeeres And this commeth through mens obstinacie in sinne and for that such things are not reformed as God commandeth or for that some euils are not punished as they ought to bee as for innocent blood-shed 1. Sam. 21. 1. for open idolatrie and murthering of the Saints as in Achabs dayes We are in such continuing iudgements to looke to our waies and bewaile our sinnes also seeing thus Gods hand against his people so long wee may learne patience in the yeres of scarcity and blesse God that neuer thus afflicted vs in any of our remembrances for such a famine would in these Northerne parts be most intolerable farre more vnsufferable than in hot countreyes where people could humble themselues with fasting many dayes together Verse 5. And Mahlon and Chilion dyed also both of them and the woman was left of her two sonnes and of her husband THis verse sheweth a further griefe which befell good Naomi which was the death of both her sonnes and so to be left a heauie soule in solitarinesse in a strange countrey where she could haue no spirituall comfort and where now she had lost her chiefest corporall comfort And Mahlon and Chilion dyed also both of them These inioyed their yong wiues for some space and had time to haue returned home to the Lords people but they for bodily maintenance new friends gotten by their marriages would not the Lord therefore tooke them away in this strange Land Many things may be noted I. That the Lord gaue them time to marry and to enioy their marriage for some space though they made no better vse of their fathers death thus good and patient is God vnto men for their bettering if it would be for which praise him II. That when God hath proued men in patience and they will not make right vse thereof then will he take them away for he will not alwaies striue in mercie here the abusers of Gods goodnesse may learne to take heed III. That God can and will cut off sometime yong men in the flowre of their youth Thus he tooke away Nadab and Abihu Hophni and Phinees Amnon Absalom two gallant yong Princes so here these two though some by violent death and other by naturall death And this is sometime a punishment for sinne Psalme 55. 23. 1. Sa. 2. 31. but not euer for God in mercie will take some from the euils of the world as he did Iosias Let none because of youth put farre off the day of death Death respecteth no age no strength no beauty Remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth Ecclesiastes 12. 1. Thy owne sinne may cut thee off in youth as it did Absalom and so the rest or thy fathers sinne as Dauids child was taken away 2. Sam. 12. 14. and the tenne 1. King 11. 12. and 21. 6. Tribes from Rehoboam and the sonnes of Saul And the woman was left of her two sons her husband This is added to aggrauate the affliction of Naomi and doth teach that neither few nor light afflictions sometime befall the godly Naomi lost her husband then not one but both her sonnes and left their widowes without children so as Naomi had none of his bloud remaining in Moab And as shee was thus afflicted so was Dauid who had proud and scornefull brethren a bloudily-minded father in law a mocking Michal to his wife lewd and vnnaturall children besides many other great trialls What shall I speake of Iobs trialls Ieremies troubles and Pauls persecutions Yet God thus suffers his to be tried to make them know themselues to shew them their graces and their imperfections which in affliction they will manifest to weane them from the world to the loue of a better life to whip them from their sinnes and to make our vile natures tame to submit to his yoke Let vs looke therefore for them let vs be contented and patient vnder them and consider the troubles of others of old and in the primitiue Church and of later times Let vs not thinke our condition the worse before God but rather the better if instruction be with correction for God loueth vs then It is a fault to murmure at him it is an error to thinke our estate to be euill before God because of sundry and great crosses for many are the afflictions of the righteous he saith not of the wicked yet then righteous when they be afflicted this is comfort against despaire Note againe that he saith the woman was left he saith not now Naomi as before after to expresse her deiected condition for a widow poore alone without friends and in a strange country is in an afflicted estate contemptible it is the not Naomi but the woman in distresse and miserie And lastly obserue that when death calleth friends must part and one leaue another husbands their wiues children their parents parents their children as here no band of loue can keepe them then together death must be welcome and vnto dearest friends we must bid farewell Verse 6. Then she arose with her daughters in law that shee might returne from the Countrey of Moab for shee had heard in the Countrey of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giuing them bread HEre is at the length the returne of Naomi with whom from whence and the reason drawing her minde homeward Then shee arose Shee had long abode in Moab now after such crosses shee ariseth to goe thence vnto the Church and people of God when the Lord thus afflicted her when shee saw her selfe destitute of her husband and children and had none to goe vnto and to conuerse with but Idolaters the Moabites then she arose to leaue those coasts Note how affliction shall follow affliction to bring home such as be the Lords if one crosse will not

would be content to marry with them which is a commendation to them that would thus welcome such as came among them for succour It is a matter praise-worthy to be harbersome to strangers for this were the Barbarians commended Act. 28. 2 7 10. who receiued the Apostle and the rest into their houses made them fires because of the cold and raine in Winter courteously lodged them and when they departed being such as had suffered shipwracke and were thereby in want those Barbarians helped them with necessaries This was humanity and mercy For this Abraham and Lot and Iob are commended and this goodnesse wee must learne to practise for so are wee exhorted Heb. 13. 2 and these former examples lead vs to it This qutie is to be done not onely to our kindred to our friends to our knowne countreymen but to strangers Heb. 13. 2. yea and to our enemies in their neede 2. Kings 6. 23. Romanes 12. 20. Vers 3. And Elimelech Naomies husband dyed and shee was left and her two sonnes THis telleth vs of the heauie crosse which befell Naomi which was in the death of her husband and that as it may seeme very shortly after they were come into Moab before the sonnes did marry so she was left a widdow with two fatherlesse children to take care for them in a strange countrey This verse is a narration of an euent what it was and vpon whom it fell to the great heauinesse of Naomi the euent was death and here is shewed whom it tooke and whom it left And Elimelech dyed His age is not reckoned he could not bee very old if wee may gasse his yeeres by his sonnes marrying so young women after his death yet he dyeth yea and there also wither he went for food to preserue life He went first from Israel the Land of the liuing and led them thence and so he now goeth out of the world before them from whence note I. That death is the end of all and it spareth none Iosh 23. 14. Iob 21. 33. Eccles 7. 2. and 6. 6. 1. Cor. 15. 51. Heb. 9. 27. for all haue sinned Rom. 5. and death is the reward of sinne Rom. 6. And therefore let all prepare to die II. That a full supplie of bodily wants cannot preuent death The man must die in Moab where was food enough the rich Glutton must die also and the Rich man with his barne full for the sentence of death is irreuocable and mans life dependeth not vpon the outward meanes of life for then the rich and mighty would neuer die Let not men in their abundance thinke to escape death let them therefore not set their hearts on their wealth for they must leaue it It is follie to trust in riches for they cannot deliuer from death either ordinary or extraordinary lingering or suddaine naturall or violent as examples and experience it selfe teacheth III. That where men think to preserue life there they may lose it as Elimelech doth here fleeing from the famine in Israel yet dyed where plenty was in Moab for no place is free from death and when the appointed time is come man cannot passe it Iob 14. 5. we cannot thinke therefore our selues safe any where from death nay many times where we may think our selues secure there death may take vs away Naomies husband It is not said her husband which might well haue beene spoken by way of relation to her without her name because shee was named before and no other woman but this woman was a very vertuous woman and this was a great crosse to her and therefore both to expresse her excellency and her begun misery it is said Naomies husband dyed the husband of so rare a wife died Note hence I. That it is a grace for some to be called the husbands of some women their name is a grace to them if they be vertuous for such a one is a crowne to her husband Pro. 12. 4. Now a crowne is high glory to a man and her husband is knowne in the gates Pro. 31. 23. Such wiues are to bee made much of as rare Birdes for too many may sit downe with shame and blush to bee named the husbands of some wiues Foolish though faire faire but perhaps filthy rich but withal retchlesse wiues but without gouernement husbands named the head but they must bee masters sometime painefull but Peacok-like proud often more mad or fullen sad than merrie if merrie it keepes not in with modesty if she speake it is lowd often heard farther then seene and yet oftener seene by a quiet husband then well liked of In a word a wicked foolish woman is shame to his person and rottennesse to his bones Pro. 12. 4. II. That grace in one preuents not death in another Naomies husband must die so Abrahams wife also Iacob must bid his Rachel adieu and Ezech. 24. 16. Ezechiel the desire of eyes for no mans grace can free himselfe much lesse another from death Psal 49. 7 9. and married persons are not appointed the same length of daies No we come not together and wee goe not together Let none hope for life by the grace of another let the neerest and dearest looke to part by death Ruth loued Naomi most dearely and saith that nothing should separate them but onely death verse 17. because shee knew that that must needes be yelded vnto III. That it is a great crosse for a woman to lose a good husband This is implied as I said in naming her by name for in him the wife loseth her head her guide her stay and comfort if hee be a vertuous man and a good husband I neede not intreat good and louing wiues to mourne for such sure enough they haue cause and wiues cannot but mourne except they conceit a new comfort very quickly as some doe for feare the old griefe should lye too long at the heart for him that is dead and cannot be recalled so with them the liuing is better to be liked of than the dead for they know their husbands would perhaps haue so dealt with them And shee was left and her two sonnes Death seazed onely vpon Elimelech and left Naomi and also her sonnes that she might not be vtterly comfortlesse in a strange countrey From this may we note these two things I. That albeit death is due to all in as much as all haue sinned yet it seazeth not vpon all at once but one dyeth now and another hereafter as we see in all ages which cōmeth not to passe for any good in one more than in another but God will haue mankind vpon earth till the last day hee forbeareth some and repriueth them for their amendment for the lengthning of life is for our further repentance if wee bee the Lords or for the greater condemnation of such as shall perish For this mercy God is to bee praised for we deserue death and it might seaze vpon euery one at once and take vs away because wee are borne