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A43038	Divine meditations upon some of the virtuous, and vitious women, in the Scriptures wherein, as in a glass, every one may see their own faces; whether fair, or foul; deformed, or comely. A work worthy their spare-hours; which, by the grace of God, may work an holy emulation in many, either to equal, or out-vie their sex in virtue. By William Harvey, minister of the Word of God.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1092B; ESTC R216453	24,926	90

this world a thousand exquisite deaths (g) Job xxxviii 2. But who is this that darkens Counsel without Knowledge (h) Chap. xl 5. Once have I spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further How is wretched man (i) Quantum multatus ab illo altered What a glorious change upon the Sudden The heavens Smile upon us all is Serene and clear No dire Eclipse or dark Cloud to obscure our Sun Man reassume thy Courage Wipe of the Tears from thy Cheeks behold a harmeless Dove comes to thee with an Olive branch in her mouth and the Waters are abated O golden Sentence (k) Gen. iii. 15. The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's head No Honey or Honey-Comb so Sweet I am even Ravished with the Contemplation and as it were rapt into the third Heaven Now Satan do thy worst thy Venom is spit (l) Psal cxlvi 1 2. Praise ye the Lord Praise the Lord O my Soul While I live will I praise the Lord I will Sing praises unto my God while I have any being Eve thou hast now given us Heaped measure pressed down and running over A full Compensation hast thou made us Thy and our God hath caused thee to be Instrumental in our Restauration By Faith in that promised Messiah to come art thou Saved and we by Faith in him as Come already dead buried risen and ascended into heaven In thy State of Innocency thou hadst free will but subject to temptation Yet thy Fault was freely perpetrated and not committed by Coaction Thou hadst power from above to Stand thank thy Self for thy fall Thy destruction is of thy self O Israel Sweet Father whom thou lovest now thou lovest ever We may fall into Sin and fall again but not finally nor totally Thy Promises in Christ Jesus are without Repentance like the Law of the Medes and Persians they alter not Heaven and Earth shall pass away but Thy word shall not fail O Lord Support us with thy Grace and Sweet Influences of thy blessed Spirit that we fall into no Sin If thou forstake us we perish Let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall Father Cloath us with Humility as with a Garment and make us Sensible of the heavy Weight of our Sins As weary and heavy-laden let us make to him who took our Transgressions upon him that knew no Sin that we may have Rest even the forgiveness of all our Sins lest they sink us into irrecoverable Perdition O Jesu sis mihi Jesus Amen 2. Meditation upon Sarah THis may be the World's Mistress or the Females Tutouress to learn her Sex Obedience She knew well that Man was not made for the Woman but the contrary and therefore tends the end of her Creation She scorns to stand in Competition with her Husband but nulls a paritie and calls him Lord. A Scanctified Woman is a rare Creature having more Lustre in her then any twinkling Star How calm the Sea is when there 's no wind stirring Her house is as Silent as the night There is no Pro and Con for no sooner said but done Happy that Man in the fruition of such a Wife He is (a) Prov. xxxi 23. known in the Gates when he sitteth among the Elders of the Lord. No Harmony like to Still-Musick The Man eats drinks and sleeps in quiet No disturbance where there is such a Consort for his days are prolonged he dyes in peace and is gathered to his Fathers in a good old age Here 's an help meet for him because in two distinct Bodies there 's but one Soul O what Contentment is there where there is such an accord In such a well-tuned Instrument there can be no flaw but every Touch enchanteth the ear and attracts attention To you then whose Lot is fallen into so fair a ground Be not you Imperial and unnatural Prove not unkind to a Spouse so lovely who hath made you all as so many Pompeys nad Caesars Return love for love and grieve not causeless so harmless a Creature Suffer not a Tear to sully so Sweet a Face but tender her contentment as the Apple of your Eye Who in his right Wits would injure such a Bed-fellow Compare Light and Darkness Heaven and Hell with a perverse woman to Such a Wife and what a vast disproportion If ever there was a Paradise on Earth it 's here Except the Fear of God and the Joys of Heaven alone to such a woman there is no compare Let no Churlish Nabal ever kiss her Lips much less crop the flower of her Youth A Wight so rarely accomplished let no rude hand attempt once to touch 3. Meditation upon Rebekah MOdest and faithfull Rebekah thou comest next to hand a Daughter well becoming such a Mother Thou shamest not thy kind for thou enjoyest her vertues Thou Chast Penelope How many may blush to read thee The unplucked Rose and Lilly not more pure No Snow in Salmon whiter Thou wast as innocent as a new-born Babe true as the Turtle-done to her Mate and though married ever a Virgin Like Joseph thou wert of Canon-proof and no assault could once Seale thy Walls As a well-disciplined Army none could break thy Ranks but alwaies thou puttest the Enemy to a rout O thou one of a thousand unparalell'd incomparable woman What Bays sufficient to Crown thy Temples Thy memory is Sweet and Lovely and thy chost fellows praise thee How an I transported with thee My Genius promp me and yet alass my Pen falls short of her encomiums Look into this Prospective you weaker vessels behold a lively pattern for your imitation Cast your eyes upon this Sampler and write after this fair Copy Your Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost defile them not then No unclean thing can enter heaven Shake off your Paramours if you love your Souls and be faithfull to your married beds Wrong not your Husbands your own flesh your precious Souls It will be bitterness in the later end believe me God is pure and hates all uncleanness Cast not away that better part which is capable of Immortality Your pleasures are but momentary which so soon as injoyed vanish 4. Meditations upon Abigail WIse Abigail thou art now my Subject pity a Fool should have been thy Husband for Nabal was his name and folly was with him He was a Churl too that hadst thou not been wise one house had been too little for both A Crooked piece of Timber sometime is in a fair Building and a perverse man my have a compleat woman else the whole Fabrick would fall This is none of the meanest blessings had a man but eyes to see it Setting the Grace of God aside and the ornaments of the Soul a vertuous woman hath no Peer See how this fair Water quencheth the violence of Fire David is resolved to cut off root and branch all that appertained to Nabal Like Jehu he marcheth Furiously intent upon Revenge for the

Sanctified life as thou didst into the world thou hadst but shook the Tree beat the Bush or started a Hare produced a Saviour to thy Fellows and been a Cast-away thy self But thou shakest off those Vermine at once puttest to Non-plus thy base Parasites and Clawbacks as if they were Planet-struck My Soul doth magnifie the Lord and my Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour What Spirit then was he of that belched this Blasphemy Hear it and let both Ears ringle Mary is the Mediatrix of our Salvation of our Conjunction Justification Reconciliation Intercession and Communication How doth this agree with her own Magnificate But why should I foul my hands with such dirt and rubbish Learn humility from the Mother of our Lord even from her who was highly favoured and be not conceited of your own worthey she-Saints God sees no sin in you as you would make us believe and therefore are above Ordinances The Preaching of the Word and Administration of the Sacraments according to Divine institution concerns you not for you are Babes of Grace and by your second Baptism contrary to Scripture and the Practice of the Primitive Church your sins are washed off This is the Tale you tell us though with the Sow that was washed you are turned again to your Wallowing in the Mire 2 Pet. ii 22. Never had the Devil such an Harvest since the world was as in these late Times of Reformation and who would think it Any with half aney might well see what sad effects that thing called Liberty of Conscience would produce Meditations upon Miriam I Have met now with a Prophetess and a Virgin both one that was Sister to a Prince and Priest But this did not so much Enn●ble her as her Vertues for her chiefest Ornaments were the Graces of her Soul and the more precious Jewels were inclosed in that Cabinet How bravely didst thou lead thy women in their dance before the Lord With what grace didst thou foot it Every step sounded forth the praises of the most High Thy Song was gracious and like thy Spirit it returns to him that gave it The subject of it was praises and their Object the Lord. Like the Smoak of Incense they ascend upwards and as a most sweet Perfume disperse a redolent smell throughout the Camp Surely this was no other then the house of God and this was the Gate of Heaven Hear the burden of her song and let it ravish your hearts and draw them to divine contemplation Notone syllable but Emphatical (a) Exod. xv 21. Sing unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his Rider hath he thrown into the Sea Most Angelical when the matter of our exaltation intends onely the glory of God when the stream of our affections run that way Incomparable is that Harmony when every string speaks an Hallelujah and that voice Seraphical which warbles forth such Musical Airs to the piercing of the Clouds O my Soul how divine are thy raptures into what extasie of joy art thou swallowed Mayst thou with Noah's Dove finde no rest for the sole of thy foot till thou return to this Ark. Let that Mariner suffer Shipwrack which will not make to this Port and those Rivers before ever dryed up whose reflux tends not to that Sea where they have their flux and overflowings Lift up thy self then thou Worldling and let not thy thoughts with Staan compass the Earth to and fro and walk up and down in it Thou Dor end not thy flight ever upon a dunghill Prove not thy self unnatural (b) Os homini sublime dedit celumquoe tueri Jussit Ovid. To man an erect Front and Face is given That he might Soar aloft and look t'wards heaven Seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God saith the Apostle he that was wrapt into the third heaven Coloss 3.1 The Birds of the Air the mute Fishes of the Sea and brute Beasts will instruct thee They all move in their proper Sphere Philosophy will tell thee that ponderous things tend downward and light the contrary Throw but a Stone in the Air and how it will hast to its proper Center Take a Fish out of the water and it will gasp for Breath Shall all Creatures both Sensitive Vegetative the insectile too the poor silly Fly praise the Lord in their kind and is the Prince of all Man alone defective Shall he so basely degenerate The Poet will clear the Point Populus me sibilat Horat. Plaudo ipse domi et nummos contemplar in area The people hiss at me they laugh and at me wink At home I praise my self and count my Chink With the blind Mole the wretch is ever under ground and casting up alwaies Earth above him As a Pioner he and as another Nero he rips the womb of his mother Like green and liquid fuel he quencheth that fire which should kindle his thoughts into an holy Flame and make them Sparkle and mount upward to heaven Though he liveth moveth and hath his being from God onely yet he will not pay one Pepper corn of Thankfullness in acknowledgment of his Lord of whom he holds all that he injoys and being but Tenant-at-will may every minute be ejected turned out his bense of Clay and cast into that Infernal Prison from whence he must never expect Redemption till he hath paid the uttermost mite Meditations upon Hannah HEre 's a steril Woman but not Barren for she is big with Grace and bare in her Soul those lovely Twins of Faith and Supplication She was not impatient with Rachel Give me Childen or else I dye but humbly addresses her self to him who hath the Key of the womb and who alone withheld the fruit of it She in the bitterness of her Soul prays to the Lord yet her Lips move onely to prevent all sinister acceptions She was not long-winded hypocritical Pharisee No Enthusiast or gifted sister those pretenders of Sanctitie who have a name that they live but are (a) Revel iii. I. dead Neither was it out of too much fondness or indulgency to dandle a puppet on her knee which is the fault of many mothers neglecting the mean while the main business it's breeding and Religious education but vows and performs it too to give him unto the Lord all the days of his life I cannot but admire her Pietie and deservedly say of her as they sometime of Judith There is not such a Woman in the Earth She hath now a Son and she brings him to Eli and the Child ministers unto the Lord before the Priest Our Women for the major part run into extremes either they are too cruel or too mild The mean in which virtue consists that arrow flyeth beyond them Some are rather Step-dames then natural Mothers Others again with the Ape kill their young with embracing This of the two is more Common with the feminine gender Their beloved Adonijahs they will not