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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86361	A New-Years-gift for women. Being a true looking-glass which they seldome have in their own closets, where (for the most part) are none but flattering ones: but hereby, and herein, they may truly, plainly, and directly, see their duties, both towards God, and their own husbands. With an epistle dedicatory, directed to the feminine gender (never done before) nor the like extant in no printed book. However, many have dedicated to one or two vertuous ladies, upon some good reasons moving the author thereunto. But never any (as this is) to the whole sex of women, of what rank or quality soever they be.	Hill, William, 1619-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing H2035; Thomason E2114_1; ESTC R212662	17,927	71

ceased running Then she came and told the man of God and he said Go and sell the oyle and pay them that thou art in debt unto and live thou and thy children of the reft Also in the same Chapter ye may read of a Woman whose name we find not but she is described to be of great estimation who was so kind to the Prophet Elisha that when he passed by that way she constrained him to come in and eat bread and she said unto her husband Behold I know now that this is a holy man of God let us make him a little chamber with walls and let us set him there a Bed and a Table and a Stool and a Candle-stick that he may turn in thither when he cometh to us which the Prophet took so kindly that he said unto her Behold thou hast had all this care for us what shall we do for thee is there any thing to be spoken for thee to the King or to the Captain of the Hoste To which she answered I dwell amongst my own people Then Gehazi the Prophets Servant told his Master That she had no son and that her Husband was old So the Prophet called her and told her saying At the time appointed and according to the course of life thou shalt embrace a son And she conceived and bear a son at that same season according to the time of life that Elisha had told her And in process of time when the Childe was grown up he went out to his Father and to the Reapers and he complained to his Father saying Mine head mine head who commanded one of his servants to carry him to his Mother and she sate him on her knees till noon and then he died Now follows a most remarkable story and all both precedent and subsequent springs from the good disposition of a vertuous godly and most faithful Woman And what did she she went up and laid her dead Childe upon the Bed of the Man of God and shut the door upon him and desired her Husband not telling him the Childe was dead to send one of his yong men with an Ass with her telling him She would haste to the Man of God and her Husband answered Wherefore wilt thou go to him this day it is neither new Moon nor Sabbath day Yet she went presently and came to him to Mount Carmel and when she was near him for joy she had met him and in token of humility she caught him by the feet and his servant Gehazi went to thrust her away but the Man of God said Let her alone for her Soul is vexed within her and the Lord hath hid it from me and hath not told it me Then perceiving by her that her Childe was dead he said to Gehazi Gird thy loyns and take my staff in thy hand and go thy way If thou meet any salute him not and if any salute thee answer him not and lay my staff upon the face of the childe To which his Mother thus replied saying As the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee therefore he arose and followed her but Gehazi was gone before and had laid his staff upon the face of the Childe but it neither spake nor heard whereupon he went back to meet them telling them That the Childe was not waked Then came Elisha into the Chamber and behold the Childe was dead then he shut the door and prayed unto the Lord And after went up and lay upon the Childe putting his mouth on his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands and stretched himself upon him and the flesh of the Childe waxed warm Then the Childe sneezed seven times and opened his eyes then the Mother being called came in and fell at his feet and bowed her self to the ground and took up her son Next I come to the story of Abigail Abigail unequally yoked to Churlish Nabal yet a man exceeding mighty for he had Three thousand Sheep and a Thousand Goats But Abigail was a Woman of singular wisdom and beautiful whereby ye may by the way observe by the sequel of the business That it is better to be wise then to be rich For David hearing that Nabal did that day shear his Sheep he sent ten of his yong men unto him to visit him and for salutation to ask Whether he and his house and all that he had were in Peace Wealth and Prosperity and to put him in minde That when his Shepherds were with David they did them no hurt neither did they miss any thing and so desired some of his good cheer But Churlish Nabal answered and said Who is David and who is the son of Jesse there be many servants now adays that run away from their Masters Shall I then take my Bread and my Water and my Flesh that I have killed for my Shearers and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be Which answer Davids Servants told him whereupon David grew angry and commanded them to gird their Swords about them and he himself also girded on his Sword and about Four hundred men went up with him to be revenged upon Nabal But now behold a miracle the wit of a Woman for Abigail being told of all passages by one of her servants she made haste and took with her Two hundred Cakes and two Bottles of Wine five Sheep ready dressed and five measures of Parched Corn a hundred Frails of Raisins and two hundred of Figs all unknown to her Husband and went with it to meet David and meeting with him she lighted off her Ass and fell before him on her face and bowed her self to the ground and fell at his feet and thus said Let not my Lord I pray thee regard this wicked man Nabal for as his name is so is he Nabal is his name and folly is with him But I thine Hand-maid saw not the yong men of my Lord whom thou sentest Then David said to Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel and blessed be thy Counsel and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood For as the Lord of Israel liveth except thou hadst hasted and met me furely here had not been lest unto Nabal by the dawning of the day any that pisseth against the Wall And then David received her presents and bad her go in peace to her house So Abigail came to Nabal and behold he made in his house a feast like the feast of a King and his heart was merry within him for he was very drunken Wherefore she told him nothing neither less nor more until the morning arose and then when the Wine was gone out of Nabal his wife told him all passages and his heart died within him and he was like a stone and about ten days after the Lord smote Nabal that he died Now when David heard that Nabal was dead and that the Lord had recompenced his wickedness upon his

own head Then David sent to commune with Abigail touching being his wife and when Davids servants came and acquainted her with it she arose and bowed her self on her face to the earth saying Behold let thine hand-maid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord and she went with her five Maids and shortly after became his Wife Next I think fit to speak of Michal the Daughter of King Saul Michal and Davids wife who though she were a Woman bad enough of all conscience for she mocked David being both her King and Husband for dancing before the Ark of the Lord c. Yet it is pity to omit any good done by a Woman And thus much I finde recorded of her That Saul intending to kill David thrust at him with his Spear but he turning aside it missed him and fell into the Wall Then Saul sent Messengers to Davids house to watch him and to stay him in the morning whereof Michal gave him notice and so she let him down through a Window whereby he escaped and fled And she took an Image and laid it in his Bed and put a Pillow stufft with Goats hair under the head of it and covered it with a cloth and then told Sauls Messengers who failed not to come That her Husband was sick who returned with this answer But Saul full of malice sent them again charging them to bring him in the Bed that he might slay him So God made this wicked Woman the instrument to preserve Davids life who otherwise had undoubtedly perished And now I come to the Noble Queen of Sheba Queen of Sheba who came from far hearing the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord and to prove him with hard questions and brought with her abundance of very rich presents as Gold pretious Stones sweet Oders c. Then when she saw Solomons Wisdom and the House which he had builded and the Meat of his Table and the sitting of his Servants she told the King That it was a true Record which she heard in her own Lands howbeit she believed not the report until she came and saw it and then she confessed That the one half was not told her proclaiming That happy were his men and happy were his servants who stood before him to hear his wisdom And blessed God who had set him on the Throne of Israel to do Equity and Righteousness And Solomon gave her very great gifts and she departed Next Ruth most memorable is the kindness of Ruth towards Naomi being onely her Mother-in-Law yet she would not leave her but travel with her into a far Countrey saying thus unto her Whither thou goest I will go and where thou dwelest there will I dwell Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God Where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried The Lord do so to me and more also if ought but death do part thee and me And upon this resolution they travel together and Ruth came in the Harvest time to gleane Corn in the field of Boaz who took notice of her and used her kindly and shortly after married her she being then a Widow and her Mother-in-law Naomi became Nurse unto it of whom according to the flesh came Christ for the Text saith that Boaz begat Obed of Ruth and Obed begat Jesse and Jesse begat David Then follows the story of the thrice noble Queen Esther Esther who was so happy that she found favor in the sight of all that looked upon her and King Ahashuerus loved Esther above all the Women and she found grace and favor in his sight more then all the Virgins and when all the people of the Jews were in apparent danger of utter destruction she commanded all the Jews to fast three nights and three days promising that she and her maids would also fast which they did and she put on this heroick disposition and resolution saying I will go into the King though it be contrary to the Law and if I perish I perish and so she preserved all the Nation being her own people and caused Haman their enemy and the Plotter of all mischief to be hanged upon the same gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai her Uncle Now Gentlewomen of the first and best rank give me leave before we depart and before I bid you farewell to take you by the hand and lead you to the 31. Chapter of the Proverbs for I would have you and so would God to be as well good Hus-wives as good Wives and there ye are taught your duty thus taking notice of the preamble before it which runs thus What my son and what the Son of my womb and what O son of my desires Give not thy strength unto Women c. Then she comes to a vertuous Woman confessing her price is far above the Pearles and that the heart of her husband trusteth in her and that she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life and that she will seek for Wool and Flax and labor cheerfully with her hands and how she like the ships of Merchants bringeth her food from afar and how she riseth when it is yet night and giveth the portion to her Houshold and the ordinary to her maids and how with the fruit of her hands she planteth a Vineard and how her Candle is not put out by night and how she putteth her hands to the Wheele and her singers to the spindle and how she feareth not the snow to her Family for they are clothed in Scarlet and how she maketh ber self Carpets and fine Linnen and Purple also Sheets and Girdles and how she overseeth the walls of her Houshold and eateth not the bread of idleness and how her Children rise up and call her blessed and her Husband doth daily praise her saying Many Daughters have done vertuously but thou surmountest them all Concluding that Favor is deceitful and Beauty is vanity but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised And that the fruit of her hands shall be given her and her own works praise her in the Gates for she so adorneth her Husband that she maketh him to be known in the Gates and when he sitteth with the Elders of the Land Neither dare I leave out of my Catalogue 〈…〉 Elizabeth Elizabeth the Wife of Zacharias and both esteemed just before God And she was the Mother of John the Baptist who was great in the sight of the Lord and so highly honored as to Baptise our Saviour in his own person in the River of Jordan when he was Thirty years of age A man that neither drank Wine nor strong drink his Rayment being made of Camels Hair and his diet being Locusts and wilde Honey And I shall desire of you by way of parenthesis to observe with me what a wicked and perverse people the Jews were and no way to be pleased For our Saviour came Eating