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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00730	Certaine plaine, briefe, and comfortable notes vpon euerie chapter of Genesis Gathered and laid downe for the good of them that are not able to vse better helpes, and yet carefull to read the worde, and right heartilie desirous to taste the sweete of it. By the Reuerend Father Geruase Babington, Bishop of Landaph.	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1592 (1592)	STC 1086; ESTC S100811	308,840	390

men but performe in conclusion little moulehils my meaning it is many men gape and hope vpon promises for many matters and in the end are serued with a iugling cast as here Iacob was and misse of matter they looked for Trust not the worlde then nor all golden promises in the same for men are false vpon the weights and Laban is aliue to deceiue still Beleeue you shall haue a thing when you haue it and not ouer hastily before you were best 11 But why would not Laban giue him Rachell as hee promised we see he pretendeth custome and manner of that place not to giue the yonger before the elder but why then had hee not so ●ould him in the beginning The truth is plaine hee ment no truth but finding Iacob such a seruant for his profit as hee could not well spare very gladly would retaine still he wrought this crafte to continue his seruice to him for seauen yeares moe Which was performed of Iacob and that willingly for his aff●ction to Rachell So Laban had his purpose though by a bad meanes and little honestie in him 12 When the Lord saw that Leah was despised hee made her fruitefull but Rachell was barren saith the text First we see the power and strength of affections euen in the best men manie times Here they were so strong in Iacob that Leah in comparison of Rachell was despised which the Lorde saw and misliked giuing vpon that a mercy to her that he gaue not to Rachell to be fruitefull and beare Wherein we see againe that children are the blessing of the Lord and his free gift neuer to bee had by any power but by his Leah ioyeth in his mercy and acknowledgeth that it proceeded from God who looked vpon her tribulation and therefore shee blesseth him and giueth her Children names according to her feeling of that goodnesse so should wee doe and not so little regarde this mercy as many doe She hopeth her Husband will now loue her and keepe her company by which wee see what should be if it be not in all men children are a Chayne to binde them to their wiues in all loue and affection and this Chaine is strong with all good men Lastly shee was contented with her number and we also must learne to moderate our desire by her Many things els are in this Chapter which rather priuate reading then open speech should note Chap. 30. The cheefe poynts or heads of this Chapter are these Iacobs children by others Labans hardnesse to Iacob Iacobs painfull diligence notwithstanding FOr particulars first the text sayth that when Rachel saw she bare no children as her sister did she enuyed her sister c. Where both her enuie and vnaduised speeche to her Husband to giue her Children showeth the frailtie of Women when they wante anye thing that they much desire They are not patient and moderate as they should be but suffer affections and passions to carry them headlong both into sinne against God and offenses to their husbands Wee see it heere in Rachell otherwise a good woman no doubt of it and let the foulenes of the spot in hir make vs wise and warie to auoide it in our selues It graced not her it cannot grace vs nay it disgraced her and it will all to blurre and blot vs. She wished not to others as to hir selfe no not to her owne sister no more doe we I feare me she praysed not God aswell for his mercy to others as to her selfe no more do wee I feare me yet both she and we bound to do it Better then is the spirit that not finding in it selfe what it wisheth ioyeth yet vnfainedly that others haue it 2 The answer that Iacob maketh to her vnaduised speech may very well show vs what answer all Saint seruers should haue at their Saints hands if they heard the petitions that are made vnto them namely as Iacob answered Rachel am I in Gods steed to doe this or that for thee For the anger of Iacob being aliue may well assure vs of the like now except heauen haue made him lesse zealous for Gods glory which no man thinketh Againe his earnest speaking or anger that was kindled may teach vs also how our hearts should burne and bee troubled and greeued in vs when we heare men aske of creatures what is the creators both glory and mercy to giue 3 The giuing of their maides vnto Iacob full fowly sheweth the impatience of flesh and bloud to stowpe to Gods pleasure and indure what he dooth appoint vnto vs. They had rather haue children in this sort then tarrie Gods time in patience and hope Iacobs act in consenting may not be our example Many things in the Fathers God indured that he alowed not simply being not so from the beginning The names of the children show theyr affections which imposed them and so sometimes still as yet amongst vs. 4 Ruben goeth foorth in the wheat haruest and findeth Mandrakes To discourse whereof belongeth rather to Phisitions then Diuines It is an hearbe whose roote hath a certayne likenesse of the figure of a man There is male and female of it that is two sorts differing in greatnesse both of roote leafe and fruite which commonly men call after this sort The fruite of the female as is written in quātitie like a Chesnut or Wallnut The Aple of the male as great as an Egge the roote forked as man is the smell of it very passing pleasant for the force of it to worke loue I leaue it to others to iustifie that so write of it For the efficacie of it eyther of roote or apple in helping barrennes in Women which seemeth to be ascribed to it by these sisters here they contending so about it happily it is not generall For the Hearbe being very could cannot haue that effect in all bodyes but rather the contrarie in some namely in cold But in hote countreys as in Affrike Spaine Italy Egipt and such like where the bodies are commonly of extraordinary heate this may be vsed to bring them to some good temperature and consequently if God will to more fruitefulnesse immoderate heate being an enemie to conception aswell as immoderate cold is But as I saye I leaue these things to Phisitions For Ruben that found them I rather thinke hee brought them for the pleasantnesse of the smell which is written to be very great then for secret vertue that he knew to be in them to such an end as we now speake of I will tell you what one writeth of his owne experience and so leaue this Leuinus Lemnius saith he had hanged of the leaues and apples in his studdie for the great pleasure of the smell and in time hee began to be so heauie headed that hee could not holde open his eyes in his studdie but must needs sleepe and thus hee continued rather euery day worse then other At