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duty_n	child_n	honour_v	parent_n	3,428	5	9.3487	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73427	The merchant royall A sermon preached at White-Hall before the Kings Maiestie, at the nuptials of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay and his Lady, vpon the Twelfe day last being Ianuar. 6. 1607.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1607 (1607)	STC 25658.5; ESTC S123341	16,628	46

had no other reason to worship the Idoll Bell but only because it spent him so many sheep so many measures of flower and so many pots of wine euery day but euerie meate was not made for euerie mouth only bread was made for all and neither man nor woman haue warrant to aske for more than for their daily bread But what meaneth Salomon by that From a farre she bringeth her soode from a farre Surely not to answere that which is Prouerbially said That farre fetcht and deare bought is fittest for Ladies as now adaies what groweth at home is base and homely what euery one eates is meate for dogs and wee must haue bread from one countrie and drinke from another and wee must haue meate from Spaine and sauce out of Italy and if wee weare any thing it must bee pure Venetian Romane or Barbarian but the fashion of all must bee French and as Seneca saith in another case Victi Victoribus leges dederunt we giue them the soile and yet they must giue vs the fashion Therefore this was not Salomons meaning but from a farre either hath respect to the time A longinquo tempore as it seemeth to be expounded in the verie next words She riseth while it is yet night and giueth the portion to her household c. He doth not say shee meeteth it at the doore as shee that riseth to dinner and then thinkes her daies worke halfe done and for euery sit of an idle feuer betakes her straight to her cabbin againe and if her finger but ake shee must haue one stand by to feede her with a spoone This is no shippe of Merchants this is the Mary Slug but she bringeth it from a farre that is shee taketh care of it and disposeth of it from the first yea and before the first hand that toucheth it Or else I take this from a farre to be farther yet euen ab vltimis naturae from the first and furthest principles of nature As for example If shee will haue bread shee must not alwaies buy it but she must sow it and reape it and grinde it and as Sarah did Gen. 18. she must Kneade it and make it into bread Or if she will haue cloath she must not alwaies runne to the shop or to the skore but she begins at the seede she carrieth her seede to the ground of the ground shee gathereth flax of her flax shee spinneth a threed of her threed she weaueth cloath and so she comes by her coate The verie words of Salomon vers 13. of the chapter She seeketh wooll and flax and laboureth cheerfully with her hands Or else I take this from a farre to be farther yet euen from the gates of heauen from whence by her deuotion and godlie conuersation shee draweth downe the blessings of God vpon her house The barren Rachel praied and so did Anna too and by their prayers obtained childrē of the Lord. Now sure if the prayer of a vertuous woman were so powerfull as against the course of nature to deriue and fetch children from a barren wombe how much more shall it command the meaner blessings on the house And therefore as a wicked woman is a sea of euils so a vertuous woman is a heauen of beautie and there is none so faire as she that feareth God nay what speake we of beautie for fauour is deceitfull and beautie is Vanitie vers 30. of the Chapter and as the painting of a ship by weather and by water is washt away so shall all carnall beautie by sorow age and sicknes euen wither and waste into wrinkles but she that feareth the Lord saith Salomon she shall bee praised Praised yea honoured and admired The starres in the night the Sunne at noone day shall not shine so bright as she for hee that goes by her doore shall point at her and hee that dwels by her shall enuie him that hath her and cuery man shall say Blessed be he the that made her happie is he that begat her renowned is shee that bare her but most happie renowned and rich is he that hath her and as euen now so I say againe All generations shall call such blessed Well to make vse of this in seuerall Application to the King kindes I most humbly beseech your Maiesty first to admit of a particular application to your selfe It is said Matth. 12. that the Queene of the South came to heare the wisedome of Salomon but we may say conuersiuely and truly that the wisdome of Salomon is come to the King of the North for your Maiestie is to vs indeede a royall Merchant not only for the vnion of holy marriage which yokes couples one sex with another but as Merchants doe by intercourse of traffique for knitting and combining one kingdome with another And I will not say it is kingly but diuine and heauenlie to vnite into one things of diuided nature for thus did God create the world first he made things and then he matcht them first he created and then hee coupled them of man and woman he made one in mariage of body and soule hee made one man of sea and land hee made one earth of heauen and earth he made one world but then came the diuell vpon the stage and his part was againe to diuide what God had vnited first man from God then man from man and that diuersly first in the very bond of blood and kinred Cain from Abel the brother from the brother then distinguisht by religions the sonnes of God and the daughters of men then dispersed by their seuerall habitations the Iles of the Gentiles and the Tents of Sem and then distracted torne into diuers kingdomes the kingdome of Judah and the kingdome of Israel therefore doubtlesse a glorious worke it were of Judah and Israel againe to make one kingdome for if it be so gracious in Gods eies to doe right and iustice to a stranger how much more to loue a stranger but most of all to take away the name of a stranger The King of Kings be Pilot of your ship yea thrice blessed and happie be your Maiesties endeuour therein Ladies and Gentlewomen I beseech Application to Ladies Gentlewomen you mistake me not and impute no partialitie to mee If I haue said anything sharplie yet know that I haue said nothing against the good but all againsteeuill women yea nothing against the sex but all against the sinnes of women To which if any replie And why not I pray aswell against the sinnes of men I answer that he which imposeth so much vpon the weaker vessell importeth much more to the stronger There is a dutie required of the parents to the childe as well as of the child to the parents yet the speaketh expresly to the childe Honour thy father and mother but nothing to the pārets that they being in order of nature and in wisedome superiour might suspect their dutie to be written in themselues Againe Right Honourable in