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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

rank I have little to say more then to commend their Vertues and to pray for their Perseverance that God will be pleased to perfect that good work which he hath begun in them Yet for their comfort encouragement and imitation I will mention some good Women whom we finde recorded in holy Scripture and will begin with Sarah Sarah the Wife of faithful Abraham who is stiled the Friend of God and of her great love and obedience to her Husband in calling him Lord And what was her reward God opened her womb when she was old and she conceived and brought forth a Son in whom all the Families of the earth were blessed Next in order comes Rebecca thus Rebecca when Abraham had sent his servant to seek out a Wife for his Son Isaac charging him to take one of his kindred and of his Fathers house by special providence Rebecca came accidently to water her Fathers Cattle and she was so kinde that she drew water to make Abrahams servant drink and his Camels also so she brought him home to her Fathers house where he was most kindly entertained her Father being brother to his Master Abraham to whom he revealed his message saying unto them If ye will deale mercifully and kindly with my Master tell me and if not tell me that I may turne me to the right hand or to the left To which they made this divine answer saying This thing is proceeded of the Lord we cannot therefore say unto thee neither evil or good but thus conclude Behold Rebecca is before thee take her and goe that she may be thy Masters sons Wife even as the Lord hath said Then the Servant took forth Iewels of silver and Iewels of gold and rayment and gave to Rebecca also unto her brother and to her Mother he gave gifts and they did both eate and drink and he tarried there all night and when he rose in the morning he said let me depart unto my Master but her mother and her brother answered let the maid abide with us at least ten days and then shall she go which was referred unto Rebecca her self who made choice to go presently whereby she became a notable pattern and worthy example to all Women to prefer their Husbands before Mother or Brother or any friends or near relations whatever Now when she came near to Abrahams house she shewed abundance of humility for seeing Isaac coming forth to meet her she took a vail and covered her and so they became man and wife and Isaac loved her and thus he was comforted after his mothers death Next you may take notice of her singular wisdom for she loving Jacob her son better then his brother Esau and so did Almighty God who said Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated and when her husband Isack was old and his sight dim for he could not see she heard him call for his Son Esau to him telling him that he was old and knew not the day of his death and so desired him to take his Bowe and go into the field and take him some Venison and to make him savory meat thereof and bring it to him that he might eat and that his soul might bless him before he died wherewith Rebecca acquainted Jacob and charged him to go to the flocks and bring her thence two good Kids of the Goats that she might make pleasant meat of them for his Father such as he loved telling him that then he should bring it to his Father whereof he should eat to the intent that he might bless him before his death which he did accordingly Then Rebecca took some clothes of her eldest son Esau and put them upon Jacob and she covered his hands and the smooth of his neck with the skins of the Kids afterward she put the pleasant meat which she had prepared into the hands of her Son Jacob who brought the same unto his Father and told him that he was Esau his first born and had done as he had bid him desiring him to eat that his Soul might bless him But Jsaac being somewhat jealous and suspitious bid him come near him that he might feel him and ther by know whether he was his son Esau or not and when he had felt him he said the voice is Jacobs voice but the hands are the hands of Esau Afterwards he bid him again come near him and kiss him and he did so then he smelled the savour of his garment and blessed him therefore Esau hated Jacob and thought in his mind The days of mourning for my Father will come shortly then will I stay my brother Jacob which words were told to Rebecca and there with she acquainted her Son Jacob advising him to flee to Haran to her brother Laban and to tarry with him a while untill his Brothers fierceness were swaged and till his wrath were turned away from him and he had forgot those things which Jacob had done unto him promising that she would send and fetch him from thence so soon as it was covenient Next I come to Hannah the Mother Hannah of Samuel who had the like success and reward as Sarah and brought forth her Son and gave him suck and after he was weaned according to a vow which she had made when she prayed earnestly for him with many tears yet her voice was not heard only her lips moved she brought him and offered him to the Lord in whose service he continued all the days of his life Widow of Sareptath Then we come to the good Widdow of Sareptath who though she had only but a handful of meale and a little oyle and she was gathering a few sticks to dress it for her and her Son that they might eat it and die for the famine was sore and all their victuals spent And yet when Elias the Prophet came unto her being very hungry and desired her first of all to make him a little cake which she did accordingly and what was her reward the meale in the barrels wasted not neither was the oyle in the cruse diminished but both lasted and continued and thereby they lived and subsisted even miraculously untill God sent plenty upon the earth Also her only Son being dead was by the Prophet restored unto life Next followeth the good Shunamite Shunamite who was one of the Wives of the Sons of the Prophets and came to Elisha saying Thy Servant mine Husband is dead and thou knowest that thy Servant did fear the Lord and the Creditors are come to take my two Sons and to make them Bond-men and what did the Propher for her thus she having in her house a pitcher of Oyle he bid her get empty Vessels and borrow some which she did and shut the doors upon her and her two sons and poured the oyle from Vessel to Vessel till all were full and called to her Sons for another Vessel they answered there was none left and then and not before the oyle

capitaliter odit Either they will love intirely or hate deadly Lastly Taking notice that almost in every particular County of the Nation where there are Husbands and Wives who live a sunder and do not cohabite yet not for the act of Adultery which is the and the onely cause of Separation but for other sinister respects whereby it is evident that they live in sin and provoke God to wrath and indignation against them and their posterity Therefore I much pitying their cases and having therein in some measure my self been a suffer I shall endeavor by the assistance of Almighty God to open their eyes and convince their judgments of the unlawfulness thereof and manifold inconveniencies arising thereby for it had been better they had never one seen another But I come to my proofs and that out of the Word of God which are both satisfactory and unanswerable First We are to call to minde the solemn promises and engagements they made to their Husbands at the time of their marriage for then the Minister asked them thus Wilt thou have this man to thy weded Husband to live together in the holy estate of Matrimony Wilt thou obey him and serve him love honor and keep him in sickness and in health and forsaking all other keeping thee only unto him so long as ye both shall live To which the Woman answered I will Here is an absolute not a conditional promise and that for term of life to live together else there is no obedience nor love c. Next they took their Husbands by the right hand saying after the Minister these words J. A. take thee B. to my wedded Husband To have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health To love cherish and to obey till death us depart according to Gods holy Ordinance and thereto I give thee my troth A sacred Obligation and a Knot inviolable during life though sickness or poverty should intervene or any other disaster Moreover the Minister did joyn their right hands together using these words Those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder If no man can do it then they themselves cannot much less one of them Also the Minister gave them this Blessing God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost bless you c. and so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace that ye may so live together in this life that in the world to come ye may have life everlasting No benediction nor grace unless they live together not asunder Then observe the Prayer afterwards one running thus O eternal God Creator and Preserver of all mankinde send thy blessing upon this Man and this Woman that as Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully together so these persons may surely perform the Vow and Covenant-between them made The Scripture declareth That cursed is he or she who maketh a Vow and performeth it not Another Prayer is thus O God who didst appoint that out of Man Woman should take her begining and by knitting them together didst teach That it should never be lawful to put asunder those whom thou by Matrimony haste made one Grant that this Woman may be loving and amiable to her Husband 〈◊〉 Rachel wise as Rebecca faithful and obedient as Sarah and in all quietness sobriety and peace be a follower of holy and godly Matrons Here is likewise a living together and not putting asunder and obedience prayed for on the Wives behalf as likeliest to Rebecca More out of the Holy Scripture Genesis Chap. 3. It was part of the punishment which God imposed upon you for the transgression of your Grand-Mother Eve 〈◊〉 re●●ing you that your desire shall be subject to your Husband and they shall reigne over you If God hath so appointed and that justly who dare disobey Gen. 24. Chap. verse 55. Rebeccaes Mother and Brother desired that she might stay with them at least ten days before she went to Isaac and the matter being referred unto her she made choice to go presently Whereby it is apparent that the company of a Husband is to be preferred before Mother or Brother or any Friends or Relations whatsoever Numb 13.8 The husband hath power to disallow the vow of the Wife and make it of none effect Whereby it is manifest that his power is very great and much more to intreate or command her Company Deut. 28.56 The delicate Woman who could not set the sole of her foot to the ground for tenderness the Text saith her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her Bosome So that an evil eye towards the Husband is peculiar to a proud wife Job 19.17 Holy Job complained that his breath was strange to his VVife though he intreated c. Job would not have complained for nothing therefore it was a great Judgment Prov. 31.10 12. Who can find a vertuous Woman for her price is above Rubies the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life This cannot be done if they live asunder for then there is doing neither of good nor evil in relation each to other Jer. 3.20 A woman treacherously departeth from her husband so have ye deabt treacherously with me O house of Israel saith the Lord. So that no departing can be without being guilty of Treachery New Testament Mat. 19.6 Our Saviour speaking of Man and Wife saith They are no more twaine but one flesh what therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder A fearful thing to untie Gods knot and them impossible for one to have and the other to want Rom. 7.2 The Woman which hath a Husband is bound by the Law to her Husband so long as he lives So that it is as lawful for an Apprentice to run away from his Master as for a Wife to depart from her Husband without his consent 1 Cor. 7.4 The Wife hath not power of her own body but the Husband How then can the Wife dispose of any thing which is not her own Verse 16. What knowest thou O Wife whether thou shalt save thy Husband A strange Salvation likely to be wrought when they live many miles asunder Verse 34. The married Woman careth for the things of the World how she may please her Husband Which is done in nothing more then to live with him if he desire it Verse 10. The Apostle saith I command and yet not I but the Lord Let not the Wife depart from her Husband If the high God command who dare disobey Verse 13. The Woman which hath an Husband that believeth not if he be pleased to dwell with her let her not leave him If unbelief be not a cause of separation what then can be except Fornication I am sure neither poverty sickness c. 1 Cor. 9.5 St. Paul saith Have we not power to lead about a Wife as well as other Apostles It seems in those days that good Wives should follow their Husbands where ever they went 1 Cor. 11.3 The Head of the Woman is the Man A strange thing to have the Head and the Body many miles asunder Verse 8 9. The Man is not of the Woman but the Woman of the Man neither was the Man created for the Man A fearful thing for the Wife to separate not regarding the end of her Creation for whom she was made Verse 12. The Woman is of the Man but the Man is by the Woman If of the Man how can they part stakes and withdraw Col. 3.18 The Apostle commands Wives to submit to their own husbands Then certainly must dwell with them if they desire it else it is not submission but rebellion the Wife not having power of her own body Eph. 5.23 The Husband is the Head of the Wife even as Christ is the Head of the Church Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ so let Wives be unto their Husbands in every thing Oh that the great God of Heaven and Earth should compare the tye between Husband and Wife to the Mystical Union between Christ and his Church 1 Pet. 3.1 Wives be in subjection to your own Husbands that if any obey not the Word they may without the Word be wone by the conversation of the Wives Conversation and Cohabitation are inseparable companions For how can they converse unless they cohabite FINIS

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