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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

Bathshebaes INSTRVCTIONS to her Sonne LEMVEL Containing a fruitfull and plaine Exposition of the last Chapter of the PROVERBS Describing the duties of a Great-man AND The vertues of a Gracious Woman Penned by a godly and learned man now with God Perused and published for the vse of Gods Church By Iohn Dod AND William Hinde Printed at London by Iohn Beale for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere the great Cunduit in Fleet-streete 1614. TO THE RIGHT Honorable VVILLIAM Lord SAYE and SEALE together with the religious Lady ELIZABETH his wife Grace and peace in Christ Iesus MY GOOD LORD I Present you here with a diuine Iewell which as it was found by a rich Merchant in his field so was it polished by the cunning skill of his owne most curious hand Jf you behold the quantitie it may seeme but as a Mite but if you consider the quality and vertue thereof it is farre to bee preferred aboue much refined gold For among others it hath this hidden vertue that whosoeuer contemplates the lustre thereof with a chaste eye it will reflect a sanctified illumination into his very heart And seeing that by Gods prouidence it came to my hands when as by the death of the Author it was like to haue been lost I thought my selfe bound in conscience to communicate it with the Church of God for the publike good rather then to keepe it still in my closet for my owne priuate benefit And howsoeuer the splendor of this Iewell will glad the heart of euery eye that seeth it yet being well considered you shall finde it belongeth by a more peculier right to such among the sonnes and daughters of men who are eminent for their birth and honourable for their place and condition And because the worth of the Iewel required a Patron of no meaner ranke then one of the sonnes of Nobles Eccles 10 17 I thought good to recommend this Iewell vnto your Lordships Patronage and protection and the rather that it might bee some testimonie of the fauours which I haue receiued from and of that duty wherein I acknowledge my selfe to be indebted vnto your Lordship It is now your owne oh let the light and lustre of euery beame therein shine in your Person and appeare in your practise that to the glorie of God the ioy of your friends and solace of your owne conscience Grace and Honour Godlinesse and greatnesse knowledge and sanctification may be seene in you amiably to embrace and beuatifully to adorne one another For when after a long account you shall at the last come to cast vp your Summa totalis you shall finde that Godlinesse will proue the greatest gaine Grace the richest treasure and Gods fauour the highest honour The Lord with his fauorable countenance blesse you and your vertuous Lady and euery branch of your vine Psal 92.13 14 that as the Lords planting you may so flourish in Gods courts that branches be neuer wanting to your stocke nor fruit vnto your braunches that men may see that verified of your honourable vine which the heathen man said of his golden tree Primo avulso non deficit alter Aureus simili frondescit virga metallo Bunbury in Cheshire Iuly 13. 1614. Your Honours in all christian duty to be commanded WILLIAM HINDE AN EXPOSITION vpon the last Chapter of the PROVERBS * ⁎ * PROVERBS Chap. 31. Verse 1. The words of King Lemuel the collection wherein his mother instructed him Verse 2. What my sonne and vvhat a sonne of my wombe and a sonne of my vowes THE scope and drift of the first verse is set forth vnto vs that it is the duety of Parents to teach and instruct their children and that it is the Childrens duty firmely to retaine in memory the instruction and precepts of their Parents The drift and scope of the second verse is to shew that children ought to be perswaded of the loue of their Parents to the end that they bee the better confirmed and strengthened in the doctrine vvhich they teach them IN this Chapter two things are to be obserued First the Title Secondly An Exhortation and admonition of * Called also Bathshua 1. Chron. 3.5 Bathsheba the mother vnto Salomon her sonne The title is described by a double efficient cause First by Bathsheba the author which is noted by her relatiue to wit the mother of Salomon And Secondly by Salomon the reporter who also is declared by another relatiue to wit the title of King It is further also described by the finall cause which is that the mother should instruct her sonne Salomon Afterwards is declared the duty of children which is faithfully to retain the wholsome precepts and admonitions of their parents and rather then they should be forgotten to commit them to writing to the end that they may in their practice of life by their deedes expresse them for the obedience of children dooth not so much consist in bowing the knees to their Parents in giuing them outvvarde honour and reuerence and in asking their blessing c. as in obseruing the lessons and instructions vvhich are deliuered to them by their Parents And as Salomon kept and preserued those precepts not for his owne vse onely but also for the profit of the posteritie of the Church So it behooueth children after they haue applied them first to their owne vse to haue care to teach them to their children begotten by them In Bathsheba the other efficient cause is to bee noted the duety of Parents in generall and in speciall of mothers which is Eph. 6 4 to bring vp and instruct their Children euen their sonnes in the feare of God 1. Chron 28.9 Exo. 12 26 27 and to endewe them vvith lessons and precepts which may bee of vse vnto them not onely whilest they are vnder their nurturing gouernment and ouersight but also may bee necessary and profitable vnto them for the framing and gouerning the vvhole course of their life 2. Tim. 1 5 and that euen from their * Tim. 3.15 Pro. 4.3 cradles which appeareth by her louing manner of speech toward him calling him Lemuel a thing obserued by mothers to their children whilest they are in their tender yeeres Then it is also to be noted in what things chiefly is seene the loue of parents which is lawfull to wit that by how much the more they loue their children by so much the more plentifully and abundantly they should enforme them in the feare of God For whereas Bethsheba held her sonne Salomon most deere vnto her as doth very manifestly appeare by the fourth chapter of the Prouerbs verse 31 and by the second verse of this chapter shee did witnesse and testifie this her loue by a most diligent and religious education of him contrary to that which parents and mothers especially in these dayes doe which doe expresse their loue to their children in cloathing them in gay apparell feeding them with delicate meates allowing them

that it is the part of a good wife to please her husband in all things so farre as it may agree with the duty of a good and godly woman for if for his good shee doth sometimes that which may displease him shee doth not against her duty Hitherto therefore shee ought to bend her endeauor that shee may be praised without all exception But there are to bee found many women of whom it is said shee is a faithfull and chast woman but yet a froward peece shee is a good wife but curst and somewhat too talkatiue and hasty to answere But of this woman it is generally said that shee is loiall gentle perfect in euery iust good duty Afterwards this duty is amplified by the adiunct of the length of time that is to say all the daies of his life It is growen to a common Prouerbe amongst vs to call the first moneth after mariage the hony moon Wherby men wil shew that the beginnings of mariage are pleasant but that there follow after many bitter yeeres By another similitude also they do compare the ioy of a widow desiring mariage to a fire of thornes which after a short blaze is presently put out and quenched But this duty of a godly woman is not comprehended in lesse then the whole life of time For she will not onely do good to her husband whilest he is young but when he is old also not only in health but also in sicknesse not only in prosperitie but also in aduersitie And these duties are also to be performed of the husband toward his wife and so much the more grieuously doth hee offend if hee swarne from his dutie in as much as God hath made him more strong and furnished him with greater gifts Verse 13. She seeketh wooll and flaxe and worketh it according to the willingnesse of her hands Verse 14. Shee is like the ships of the Merchant Shee fetcheth her foode from farre Verse 15. And rising vvhile it is yet night shee giueth the portion to her house and the ordinary to her maids Verse 16. She thinketh of a field which she taketh of the fruites of her hand she planteth a Vineyard THis care for prouiding of wool and flaxe seemeth little to agree with the wife of Salomon so magnificent a King for whom it should seeme to bee more fit to be carefull to deck and trimme her selfe by the glasse that her beautie might be the more gracious and pleasing vnto the King but especially it seemeth to differ much from the roiall dignitie and Princely maiestie that she should with her owne hands handle the distaffe and as it followeth after in the 19. verse that shee should put her hands to the wheele her hands hold the spindle For it seemeth she should sufficiently discharge the dutie of a mother of a family if she do cause her maidens and seruants to doe this But howsoeuer things may seeme to vs and our carnall iudgement iudging of duty according to the present shewe notwithstanding the wisedome of God hath thought this to agree with the Maiestie of the greatest Princes that they should exercise themselues both in these and other duties belonging to women Wee read of Sara Gen. 18 6 7 who beeing a great Princesse yet shee kneaded dough Gen. 27 9 17 and dressed meate Of Rebecca wee read how by her cunning in cookery she was able to counterfait meates to cause that to appeare to be venison which indeed was not 2. Sam. 13 5 6 9 Of Thamar the Kings daughter how shee was so well practiced in cookery that shee was able to make daintie and pleasant meates for her brother faining himselfe sicke In this our age if any woman be of more noble birth or haue riches aboue others their manner is to bee so proud and disdainefull that they thinke nothing may beseeme their greatnesse but what is ioined with notable idlenesse and ceasing from all honest businesse they may handle nothing which may make their hands hard do nothing which may impaire their beauty Gen. 20 1 It appeareth by holy Scriptures that Sara and Rebecca euen in their olde age kept the traces and features of their beautie they had in their youth and therfore no doubt but they had a care to continue their beauty that they might be most gracious and pleasing to their husbands but that through this care of their beauty they did cease from all honest labour and businesse it neither can agree with their duty nor with those excellent vertues wherewith they were endued But if to Princesses and honorable women it be not allowed to be idle and to cease from honest businesse whereas they notwithstanding in regard of the weakenesse of their sexe both are and ought to bee fauoured aboue others can it bee lawfull for men to take vnto them this licence to liue at their pleasure without any imployment Wherein the men of our age doe more grieuously offend then the women For what man is there that hath rents and possessions aboue the common sort which by this bountifulnesse of God towards him doth not thinke himselfe freed and discharged from all honest imployment so as hee thinketh he is in good state if abstaining from doing wrong to others he doe in the meane time giue himselfe to all loosenes of minde spending his time both in hunting hauking and other pleasures of this life Furthermore whereas shee doth her selfe seeke wooll and flaxe not staying till they should be prouided by her husband hereby is set forth her readinesse to labor which is proued by the words following for whereas he saith that shee doth these things according to the willingnesse of her hands hee doth thereby teach that shee doth readily and cheerefully goe about her worke wherein aboue all things her strength is declared For such things as are laid vpon vs by reason of our calling ought to be done merrily and with a cherefull minde for like as the sunne like a giant doth gird it selfe that it may in 24. houres runne his whole circuit about the world so likewise ought wee to stirre and raise vp our selues to that worke which is laid vpon vs. Men therefore which haue a minde of more courage and are of greater strength of body may bee ashamed to lye downe vnder the burden of such labors as are enioyned them And this cherefulnesse is therefore propounded that he may shew that thereby the worke is the more easily and speedily dispatched Verse 14. It is though that the wife hath sufficientlie performed her duty if shee doe safely preserue and keepe those things which her husband hath brought in But the holy Ghost teacheth vs that it is the wiues duety to prouide those things wherewith the familie is fed and not such things onely as are neere at hand but which also are brought from farre countries from whence hee sheweth that shee fetcheth them in marchants ships because shee bringeth her foode from farre Wherein seemeth some