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A03581	The child-birth or womans lecture. That is: A lecture vpon Chap. 1. ver. 57, 58. of the holie Gospell according to Luke very necessarie to bee read and knowne of all young married and teeming women, and not vnprofitable for men of all sortes. By. Chr. H.	Hooke, Christopher.	1590 (1590)	STC 13702; ESTC S116551	17,682	30

THE Child-birth or Womans Lecture That is A Lecture vpon Chap. 1. ver 57 58. of the holie Gospell according to Luke very necessarie to bee read and knowne of all young married and teeming Women and not vnprofitable for men of all sortes By Chr. H. Esay 66.7 Before shee trauailed shee brought foorth and before her paine came shee was deliuered of a man Childe BY WISDOME PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY TO AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Orwin for Henry Hooke and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard by Raphe Iackson at the signe of the Swanne 1590. To the right Worshipfull and vertuous Gentlewoman Mistres Elizabeth Sauel grace mercie and peace from Iesus Christ the fountaine of all heauenlie graces be multiplied THis Lecture right Worshipfull whereof I presume to make you the Patronesse is compact of the notes obserued in my reading at the birthes of your two most sweet iewels Master Henry and Master Edward Sauels and now published as for the common good of all that please to reade it so to performe my promise made long since vnto you and to bee a testimonie of the godlie care which your Honorable Lady-mother the Lady Paget your selfe had to shew all thankfulnes vnto the Lord for his great mercie towards you For no sooner were you thorough the goodnes of God deliuered but that both the one time and the other I was sent vnto from her Ladyship and your selfe to giue thankes vnto the Lord on your behalfe so that the sunne had not shewed his beames before such time as the same mornings wherein you receaued those blessings We had the whole familie together the right Worshipfull your Father and your Husband being also present like as was her Ladiship her selfe with your Worshipfull sister Mistres Baeshe performed this exercise and sang Psalmes of thankesgiuing J wish as I nothing doubt of your good continuance in this so holy a course that all others who are partakers of the same mercies would also imitate follow your godly example and president herein which they should the rather do if they could or would consider aright how many singular blessings in this one thing doo concurre for nothing hindreth so much our thankefulnes vnto the Lod as the want of a right consideratiō of his great benefits wherewith he ladeth vs which either for lack of insight into them or for that they seeme ordinarie and befall vs euerie daie and others aswell as vs are therefore the lesse of the greater sorte regarded but were we affected as wee should the more ordinarie that they are the more thankefull we should be since our sinnes euerie day deserue to break the ordinarie course of them Dani. 4.24 for that we breake not off our sinnes by righteousnes nor our iniquities by mercie toward the poore And since we see dailie many to faile of thē whom we may iustifie in respect of our selues for not to speak of holy Rahel and Ely his daughter in lawe how many right godly and vertuous women do daily in Childe-bed miscarrie They therefore who haue the good successe which you now thrise the Lord be blessed for it haue had alwaies may haue ought with Elizabeth and you acknowledge his great mercies to them For though it were ordinarie to all in safetie to bee deliuered which wee see is not yet therein they shall finde many extraordinarie blessings as by this lecture they may partlie conceaue but most plainelie may vnderstand of themselues and by themselues if themselues they will call to remembrance of their owne deliuerances and not forget al their former distres whereout without the Lords hand it had been impossible for them to haue been deliuered through ioy of a mā child whom they haue brought into the world Leauing therefore the further consideration hereof vnto your Worship and to all other godly and vertuous Matrons that haue tasted herein how sweet and bountifull the Lord is I end beseeching you to accept of this my poore labour and praying the Lord that it may be profitable vnto al in stirring them vp to a greater thankefulnes vnto the Lord for his so great mercies bestowed vpon them Your Worships to God for you and yours in his praiers Chr. H. Luke 1.57 58. ¶ Now Elizabeths time was fulfilled that she should be deliuered and she brought foorth a sonne And her neighbours and Cosins heard tell howe the Lord had shewed his great mercy vpon her and they reioyced with her WHo this Elizabeth was whom here we haue mentioned none I suppose to be so ignorant Luk. 1.6 but that he knoweth She was saith this Euangelist of the daughters of Aaron her husbād was Zacharias a Priest and both he and she iust before GOD walking in all his comaundements and ordinances without reproofe A notable patterne and example not onely for ministers and their wiues whose blameles conuersation in all things and at all times ought to be a second instruction vnto the people but for all couples as we tearme them of what degree or calling soeuer they bee that they themselues fearing the Lord and walking in his wayes Iob. 1.5 Gen. 18.19 they may not onely teach as did Iob but commaund also as did Abraham their sonnes and their houshold to knowe the way of the Lord to doe righteousnes and iudgement For this the godly whome any care of religion hath touched haue alwayes according to his commaundement done and this of his mercie towards them he hath not left vnrewarded Abraham his reward with God was exceeding great being made for this as it were one of his priuie councell For shall I conceale or keepe any thing from Abraham saith God since he wil teach his sonnes and his housholde Gen. 18.17 Iob who vsed euery day to sanctifie his sonnes that is to prepare them vnto sanctification by teaching them how though for his triall our example in the chiefest of his prosperous felicitie he was humbled cast down Iob. 42.12 yet the Lord restored him againe and blessed his latter dayes Psal 101. Iosu 24.15 Gen. 35.2 Act. 10.2 more than his former The like may be said of Dauid of Iosua of Iaacob of Cornelius the Italian Captaine and such like whose carefull obedience to the commaundements of the Lorde with the no lesse diligēt information of their housholds therin is set downe their reward from the Lord by his singular blessings in great aboundance bestowed vpon them is as it were particularly noted Zacharias therefore and Elizabeth as no doubt they performed this duetie so they are not alone neither is the rewarde of their holy conuersation the least for whereas Elizabeth was barren and long without a childe wherby she was a reproach among women the Lord for a reward maketh her fruitfull and the mother not of a meane babe but of such a one as a greater before him of a woman was neuer borne This blessing that the Lord bestowed vpon Zacharias and Elizabeth his wife

taken away according to that with Elizabeth here saieth of her selfe and their mouthes as Anna saith enlarged ouer their enemies Thus then wee see what a blessing this was to Elizabeth that shee was made fruitefull and brought foorth a sonne and how generallie the fruite of the wombe Psal 127.3 is an inheritance and blessing that commeth of the Lord. And this that it is so is a most necessarie doctrine in these daies to be taught in respect of two sortes of people the one who thinketh Children to be a charge and therefore if they might haue their choise had rather to bee without them than haue them Prou. 17.6 How farre are such from the knowledge of Gods trueth in this behalfe which teacheth vs that Children are a blessing an inheritance a reward and a crowne vnto vs from the Lord this if such would duely consider it would both reforme their corrupt and wicked iudgement in this behalfe and it would also comfort them in their distresse being ouercharged in their owne eyes with a charge of Children for what greater comfort can there bee than with our eyes sensibly to see the Lordes blessings and signes of his fauour before vs which because many in their Children cannot see by reason of their ignorant hearts which neuer were instructed in Gods schoole they take more comfort in the increase of their swine than they doo in the increase of sonnes and of daughters The other sort for whom the knowledge of this doctrine is necessarie are they who taking delight and that great as great may bee in their Children they yet sound not to the deapth of this blessing they perceiue it not to be a blessing from the Lord but doo take it to be a naturall and ordinarie worke of nature whereby they both robbe the Lord of that honour and thankes which is due vnto him and depriue themselues also of that inward ioye which in the consideration thereof the godlie doo coonceiue who thereby perceaue the Lord to haue a speciall regarde vnto them according as Elizabeth did as it is manifest by these her owne words Luke 1.25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the daies that he looked vpon me Where we see that by her sonne that she had conceaued afterwards brought foorth she maketh an argument vnto her selfe that the Lord looked down vpon her or as the Virgin Marie saith Luke 1.48 regarded her estate than which assuredlie to knowe as she knew it perfectly hereby what greater ioye could her heart conceiue But least by this generall speach it shoulde bee thought that children are vnto all a token of God his fauour and that from them they may reason as did Elizabeth Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the daies that hee looked vpon me It must bee vnderstoode as partlie in the beginning I signified that these temporal things which the Lord bestoweth indifferentlie both vpon the good and the bad are then vnto vs blessings and signes and assurances of the Lordes fauour and louing kindenes towards vs when as wee vppon whome they are bestowed are such who doo from our hearts loue serue and feare him For otherwise if he who receiueth them from the Lord is wicked and vngodlie and doo continue therein without repentance they are not vnto him blessings but cursings not pledges of his saluation thorough the grace and fauour of God in Christ but heauie tokens and certaine of his more grieuous condemnation The Scripture therefore to put a difference it thus speaketh Blessed is euerie one that serueth the Lord Psal 128. and walketh in his waies And thereupon reckoning God his blessings vpon such in respect of the labors of their hands in respect of the fruitefulnes of their Wiues in respect of the towardlines of their Children it thus concludeth Loe thus shall the man bee blessed that feareth the Lord. The feare therefore of the Lord which is manifested by a carefull watching in his waies is it that sanctifieth to vs the fruite of the womb the fruite of the ground which halloweth our basket and our store and which blesseth our goings out and our commings in and maketh what euer we haue be it smal or great to be an exceeding blessing vnto vs. But with the wicked it is nothing so Iob. 21.7 c. for though to vse againe the words of holy Iob They liue waxe olde and growe in wealth though their seede be established in their sight with them and their generation before their eyes though their houses be peaceable and without feare and the rod of God be not vpon them though their Bullock gendereth and falleth not their cow calueth and casteth not her calfe though they send foorth their Children like sheepe and their sonnes daunce though they take the Tabret and Harpe and reioyce in the sounde of the Organes though they want nothing that their heart wisheth or their eye lusteth after In which case thus laded with the things of this life we like as did Iob doo often see the most vngodlie men according to that the Psalmist saith Loe these are the wicked they prosper increase in riches their eyes stand out for fatnes Though I say all these things and al other good things of this life befall them according to their owne hearts desire yet neither Children nor any other thing else though they haue gathered golde as dust and siluer as the stones of the streat is or can be a crowne or a blessing vnto them For notwithstanding all those things the increase of their house saith Iob Iob. 20.7 shall goe away it shall flowe away in the day of the Lords wrath they shall perish for euer like their dung and they that haue seene them shall see them no more Thus it is apparant how that to the godlie onelie Children and all things are a blessing as was this Sonne to Elizabeth which shee brought foorth for that she together with her husband feared the Lord walking in all his waies and ordinances without reproofe So that to conclude this first part we see how in euerie circumstance which the Euangelist here noteth the Lorde his mercie towardes her appeareth ●uke 1 as it dooth also to all them to whome hee sheweth the like fauour to conceaue to fulfill their time to bee deliuered and to bring foorth their issue whether it bee Sonne or Daughter Now followeth the second part which sheweth how her Neighbours ●uke 1 and Cousins reioyced thereat And herein these circumstances are to bee obserued first who they were that reioyced secondlie how and thirdly for what They that reioyced were her Neighbours and Cousins that is kinsfolke in generall And here in parte began to bee fulfilled that which the Angell foreshewed to Zacharias himselfe Luke 1.14 to wit that manie shoulde reioyce at his birth Which they did as in respect of Elizabeth whose reproache hereby they sawe to bee done away whereof they could not but bee right glad