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A15435	A treatise of Salomons mariage or, a congratulation for the happie and hopefull mariage betweene the most illustrious and noble Prince Frederike the V. Count Palatine of Rhine, Elector of the Sacred Romane Empire, and Arch-Sewer, and in the vacancie thereof Vicar Generall: Duke of Bauaria, &c. Knight of the most noble order of the Garter. And the most gratious and excellent Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth, sole daughter vnto the High and Mighty Prince Iames, by the grace of God, King of great Britaine, France and Ireland. Ioyfully solemnized vpon the 14. day of Februarie, 1612. In the Kings Pallace of White-hall in Westminster.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1613 (1613)	STC 25705; ESTC S120034	52,779	92

ashamed also to call vs brethren Hebr. 2. 11. The Church also is a mother in respect of the faithfull which are begotten to the faith so Ierusalem which is from aboue is the mother of vs all Galat. 4. 26. Now then the Church must heare Christs voice Christs sheepe will heare his voice Iohn 10. 16. they wil neither heare nor follow a stranger ver 5. Christs voice is not to be heard but in the Scriptures therefore other doctrine must not be receiued of the Church then is taught and deliuered in the Scriptures This directly impugneth the popish opinion of vnwritten traditions which they bring in beside yea contrary to the scriptures which they hold not to conteyne all things necessary to saluation But the Apostle saith otherwise that the Scriptures are able to make one wi●e vnto saluation and to make the man of God perfectly prepared to euery good worke 2. Timoth. 3. 15. 17. If perfect wisedome then bee found in the scriptures what need is there of any other additions whatsoeuer is added to that which is perfect sheweth a defect and is superfluous Therefore Tertullian saith excellently Nobis curiositate non est opus post Christum Iesum nec inquisitione post Euangelium Wee need no curious inuention after Christ nor no inquisition after or beside the Gospell If any will search further he is like a way●aring man without a guide in a desert country and as a shippe on the sea without a Pilot to leaue the scripture is a way to error not a stay from erring as he againe worthily saith Credunt sine scripturit vt credant aduersus scripturas They beleeue without Scripture that they may beleeue against Scripture 10. Then to conclude where I began the duetie of the wife is to be directed by the husband beeing a man of vnderstanding as in all other ciuill matters so specially in religious exercises Those wiues are to blame that refuse heerein to be guided and those husbands more which do not vse heerein to direct their wiues but suffer them euen vnder their nose as we say to practise a contrary and the same a false religion As many themselues protestants but cold ones you may well thinke doe suffer their wiues to be popish recusants it is an excellent saying of Ambrose In mulurum insolentia etiam mariti notantur Ambrose in 1. Cor. 1. 14. Euen the husbands are noted in the insolent behauiour of their wiues A wife suspected in religion maketh also her husband to be suspected Some women may bee so wilfully bent and so frozen in their superstitious dregs that they will not be remooued I therefore onely speake against such carelesse husbands as make no great conscience what religion their wiues bee of neither take any great care to haue them better instructed They remember not that saying of the Apostle What concord hath Christ with Beliall or what part hath the beleeuer with the Infidell 2. Cor. 6. 11. And what true loue can there be betweene a protestant and a Papist a professor of the true faith and a detester thereof Tertullian saith right Domino non potest pro disciplina satisfacere habens in latere diaboli seruum One cannot satisfie the Lord for religion hauing the diuels seruant lying by his side That Heathen Moralist spake diuinely That a woman should haue no friends but such as are her husbands and because the Gods are the chiefest friends the wife should acknowledge no other Gods but those which her husband worshippeth and so hee concludeth That no sacred dutie performed secretly and by stealth by the wife is acceptable to any of the gods But our ancient Christian writer much better In Ecclesia Dei pariter In connubio Dei pariter They must be in the Church of God together and in Gods marriage bed together Thus while they accord in religion and the wife followeth her husbands pious direction all other things shall prosper and vnitie in religion will bring forth cheerfulnesse and alacrity in euery action Eleemosynae sine tormento sacrificia sine scrupulo cotidiana diligentia sine impedimento Their almes shall be without grudging their spirituall sacrifice without offending their daily diligence and endeauour without hindring c. Forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house 11 First touching the literall and historicall sense here is expressed the fidelitie and neere coniunction of the wife to her husband that in regard thereof euen the father and fathers house must bee forgotten therefore at the very first institution of marriage this rule was giuen For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother and clea●e to his wife Gen. 2. 25. The wife must not for any others sake forsake the guide of her youth nor forget the couenant of God Prou. 3. 17. Where two reasons are giuen because her husband though now olde was somtime young and a guide to his wife in her youth when shee could not gouerne her selfe as he pleased then so must he still and the other reason is because a couenant was made betweene them before God which must not be broken Thus Sarah first and afterward Rebeccah Leah also and Rachel left their countrie father and fathers house and did follow their husbands Abraham Isaac and Iacob 12 Michol Sauls daughter hearkened not to her father but against his minde preserued the life of Dauid her husband 1. Sam. 19. 12. Yea the Heathen women by the light of nature were taught to preferre the loue and life of their husbands before all other as Cleopatra Antiochus daughter the great being giuen in marriage to Ptolomeus Epiphanes with an intent to make away her husband yet tooke her husbands part against her father which is thus briefly touched in Daniel She shall not stand on his side neither be for him Dan. 11. 17. Diuers such examples of noble women that were faithfull to their husbands and kept continuall remembrance of them are alleaged by Hierome as Bilia the wife of Duellius when her husband being cast in the teeth that he had a strong breath and was angrie with her that she told him not of it made this modest answere Fecissem nisi putassem omnibus viris sic os olere I had done it but that I thought euery mans breath to smell so Martia Cato his daughter mourning for her husband being asked Quem diem haberet luctus vltimum ait quem vitae What day shall be the last of her griefe the same saith shee that shall be of my life Valeria the wife of Seruius would not consent to marrie any other saying Seruium semper viuere That her husband Seruius liued still 13 For such is the ordinance of God that man and wife are counted one flesh Genes 2. 24. To diuide then and sunder the affection betweene man and wife were all one as to rent one member from another Like as then in a picture the first colours which

glorious within by faith in Christ it hath also exernall gifts as Augustine vnderstandeth by these broydered garments of gold varietates linguarum decus c. Varietie of languages the honour of the Church sed quid ista prosunt c. but what doe these things profit if that inward beautie bee wanting these inward ornaments are those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shining garments as Cyril calleth them which hee wanted that came to the wedding feast then it is an easie matter here to giue iudgement of that Church if it bee a Church that glorieth in golden outward garments glittering with pearle and precious stones and outward pompe wanting this true inward glory which consisteth in the right faith and doctrin of the truth This is the pompous synagogue of the Romanists where are to be seene their Churches glittering with gold their images deckt with iewels their Popes riding in cloth of gold scarlet pearles and pretious stones but no inward glorie of true doctrine and pietie is there to be found This is the right description of that scarlet whore of Babylon as Tertullian thus setteth her forth Illa ciuitas quae super septem montes c. sedet in purpura cum coccino auro lapide precioso quae maledicta sunt sine quibus non potuit maledicta prostituta describi That citie built vpon seuen hilles which deserued the name of an harlot sitteth in purple scarlet gold pretious stones which are accursed without the which the cursed harlot could not bee described This vaine pompe of Churches images vestments either they borrow from the Gentiles and then we say againe with Tertullian simus moribus ijsdem si superficie eadem Why should we not be of the same manners if we retaine the same fashions or else they haue them from the Iewes and then Bernard will tell them that the Temple was then garnished with gold when blood was sacrificed Aurum igitur repudiemus cum caeteris superstiombus Iud corum aut si aurum placeat placeant Iud●i Therefore let vs refuse their gilded ornaments with other superstitions or if we will haue the Iewish ornaments let vs become lewes 13. To returne to the historicall sense many things may here be obserued for our instruction first that it is lawfull for honorable persons to vse precious and costly garments befitting their estate as our blessed Sauiour saith they that weare soft raiment are in Kings houses Matth. 11. 8. wherin Tertullian seemeth to be somewhat too strict for hee alloweth not the vse of purple and such like robes at all as a signe of honour but as a distinction of degree Natiuitatis insigma non potestatis generis non honoris ordinis non superstitionis caeterum purpura c. habent profanationis suae maculam c. As a recognisance of their nobilitie not of magistracie of their blood and stocke not of honour of their order not of superstition purple and other ornaments consecrate to idolatry haue a marke of profanenesse c. Secondly though these ornaments of honor are seemely for Princes and Nobles yet are they not fit for meane persons as now many of inferior order and place presume to iet in costly garments as Lords Ladies who as Tertullian taxeth the pride of his time Saltus insulas tenera fert ceruix can haue hanging at their neckes whole woods and countries meaning in the price and costlinesse of their iewels and as Hierome saith Vno filo villarum in suunt praedia they haue whole Manners hanging vpon one thread c. to restraine such inordinate excesse and costlinesse of apparell diuers imperiall constitutions in times past haue been made as aureorum vsus annulorum beneficio principis tributus that none should weare gold rings but by grant from the Emperour c. And in another law distrahendi purpuram facultatem nullam posset habere priuatur Euerie priuat man is forbidden to buy any purple and that none should buy any silk without licence c. Thirdly they which are clad with such robes of honour should seeke to be truly honored by their vertue and to be all glorious within as this honourable spouse here described for that is no comlinesse which is borrowed nor seemely grace which is put off and on with the garment as he well saith Serica purpura decorem habent sed non praebent decor qui cum veste induitur cum veste deponitur vestis proculdubio est non vestiti Silke and purple haue a grace but they giue none that comelinesse which is put off and on with the garment is of the attire not of them that are attired c. Euen that Heathen gouernor Lysander when the Ruler of Sicilie sent his daughters certaine precious garments refused them saying that those ornaments would rather disgrace then grace his daughters but our Christian Cyrill much better who would haue men take heed of superfluous curious and costly raiment lest vnder a pretense of hiding one vncomelinesse thou saith hee fall into another vncomelinesse for as Hierome well saith istiusmodi ornatus cultus sordib turpior est such kind of finenesse is worse then sluttishnesse And so Tertullian shall here conclude Vestite vos serico sanctitatis byssino probitatis purpura pudicitiae taliter pigmentatae Deum habebitis amatorem Attire your selues with the silke of sanctitie with the finenesse of fidelitie with the purple of pietie being so attired you shall haue God for your louer The virgines after her her companions shall be brought vnto thee 14. This is the third argument to illustrate the glorie of the royall Queene taken a comitatu from her companie and attendants the principall meaning hereof doth leade vs to consider of the vocation of the Church of the Gentiles as Augustine wel expoundeth Vere factum est ecclesia credidit facta per omnes gentes This was done in deed the Church beleeued and is constituted among al Nations c. Like as then a Queene is attended with maides of honour as the Queene of Sheba came to Ierusalem with a very great traine vnto Salomon 1. King 10. 2. and noble Queene Ester had her maides that waited vpon her Ester 4. 16. So the Church of the Gentiles being espoused and married to Christ shall bring a great companie of virgines that is of faithfull people and beleeuers that shall also betroth themselues vnto Christ as chast virgines renouncing all other in this sense Saint Paul saith to the Corinthians I haue prepared you for one husband to present you as a pure virgine to Christ 2. Cor. 11. 2. So in the godly raigne of Hezekiah when idolatrie was expelled and the true worship of God maintained Ierusalem is called a virgin O virgin daughter of Zion 2. King 19. 21. she is called a virgine Propter integritatem fidei quae semper