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A20524	Bathshebaes instructions to her sonne Lemuel containing a fruitfull and plaine exposition of the last chapter of the Prouerbs. Describing the duties of a great-man, and the vertures of a gracious woman. Penned by a godly and learned man, now with God. Perused, and published for the use of Gods church, by Iohn Dod, and William Hinde.	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625, attributed name.	1614 (1614)	STC 6935; ESTC S109713	33,460	85

Bathshebaes INSTRVCTIONS to her Sonne LEMVEL Containing a fruitfull and plaine Exposition of the last Chapter of the PROVERBS Describing the duties of a Great-man AND The vertues of a Gracious Woman Penned by a godly and learned man now with God Perused and published for the vse of Gods Church By Iohn Dod AND William Hinde Printed at London by Iohn Beale for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere the great Cunduit in Fleet-streete 1614. TO THE RIGHT Honorable VVILLIAM Lord SAYE and SEALE together with the religious Lady ELIZABETH his wife Grace and peace in Christ Iesus MY GOOD LORD I Present you here with a diuine Iewell which as it was found by a rich Merchant in his field so was it polished by the cunning skill of his owne most curious hand Jf you behold the quantitie it may seeme but as a Mite but if you consider the quality and vertue thereof it is farre to bee preferred aboue much refined gold For among others it hath this hidden vertue that whosoeuer contemplates the lustre thereof with a chaste eye it will reflect a sanctified illumination into his very heart And seeing that by Gods prouidence it came to my hands when as by the death of the Author it was like to haue been lost I thought my selfe bound in conscience to communicate it with the Church of God for the publike good rather then to keepe it still in my closet for my owne priuate benefit And howsoeuer the splendor of this Iewell will glad the heart of euery eye that seeth it yet being well considered you shall finde it belongeth by a more peculier right to such among the sonnes and daughters of men who are eminent for their birth and honourable for their place and condition And because the worth of the Iewel required a Patron of no meaner ranke then one of the sonnes of Nobles Eccles 10 17 I thought good to recommend this Iewell vnto your Lordships Patronage and protection and the rather that it might bee some testimonie of the fauours which I haue receiued from and of that duty wherein I acknowledge my selfe to be indebted vnto your Lordship It is now your owne oh let the light and lustre of euery beame therein shine in your Person and appeare in your practise that to the glorie of God the ioy of your friends and solace of your owne conscience Grace and Honour Godlinesse and greatnesse knowledge and sanctification may be seene in you amiably to embrace and beuatifully to adorne one another For when after a long account you shall at the last come to cast vp your Summa totalis you shall finde that Godlinesse will proue the greatest gaine Grace the richest treasure and Gods fauour the highest honour The Lord with his fauorable countenance blesse you and your vertuous Lady and euery branch of your vine Psal 92.13 14 that as the Lords planting you may so flourish in Gods courts that branches be neuer wanting to your stocke nor fruit vnto your braunches that men may see that verified of your honourable vine which the heathen man said of his golden tree Primo avulso non deficit alter Aureus simili frondescit virga metallo Bunbury in Cheshire Iuly 13. 1614. Your Honours in all christian duty to be commanded WILLIAM HINDE AN EXPOSITION vpon the last Chapter of the PROVERBS * ⁎ * PROVERBS Chap. 31. Verse 1. The words of King Lemuel the collection wherein his mother instructed him Verse 2. What my sonne and vvhat a sonne of my wombe and a sonne of my vowes THE scope and drift of the first verse is set forth vnto vs that it is the duety of Parents to teach and instruct their children and that it is the Childrens duty firmely to retaine in memory the instruction and precepts of their Parents The drift and scope of the second verse is to shew that children ought to be perswaded of the loue of their Parents to the end that they bee the better confirmed and strengthened in the doctrine vvhich they teach them IN this Chapter two things are to be obserued First the Title Secondly An Exhortation and admonition of * Called also Bathshua 1. Chron. 3.5 Bathsheba the mother vnto Salomon her sonne The title is described by a double efficient cause First by Bathsheba the author which is noted by her relatiue to wit the mother of Salomon And Secondly by Salomon the reporter who also is declared by another relatiue to wit the title of King It is further also described by the finall cause which is that the mother should instruct her sonne Salomon Afterwards is declared the duty of children which is faithfully to retain the wholsome precepts and admonitions of their parents and rather then they should be forgotten to commit them to writing to the end that they may in their practice of life by their deedes expresse them for the obedience of children dooth not so much consist in bowing the knees to their Parents in giuing them outvvarde honour and reuerence and in asking their blessing c. as in obseruing the lessons and instructions vvhich are deliuered to them by their Parents And as Salomon kept and preserued those precepts not for his owne vse onely but also for the profit of the posteritie of the Church So it behooueth children after they haue applied them first to their owne vse to haue care to teach them to their children begotten by them In Bathsheba the other efficient cause is to bee noted the duety of Parents in generall and in speciall of mothers which is Eph. 6 4 to bring vp and instruct their Children euen their sonnes in the feare of God 1. Chron 28.9 Exo. 12 26 27 and to endewe them vvith lessons and precepts which may bee of vse vnto them not onely whilest they are vnder their nurturing gouernment and ouersight but also may bee necessary and profitable vnto them for the framing and gouerning the vvhole course of their life 2. Tim. 1 5 and that euen from their * Tim. 3.15 Pro. 4.3 cradles which appeareth by her louing manner of speech toward him calling him Lemuel a thing obserued by mothers to their children whilest they are in their tender yeeres Then it is also to be noted in what things chiefly is seene the loue of parents which is lawfull to wit that by how much the more they loue their children by so much the more plentifully and abundantly they should enforme them in the feare of God For whereas Bethsheba held her sonne Salomon most deere vnto her as doth very manifestly appeare by the fourth chapter of the Prouerbs verse 31 and by the second verse of this chapter shee did witnesse and testifie this her loue by a most diligent and religious education of him contrary to that which parents and mothers especially in these dayes doe which doe expresse their loue to their children in cloathing them in gay apparell feeding them with delicate meates allowing them

greater liberty and licence of life and by ouer much cockering of them Which care as it is to bee vsed towards all children 1. Chro. 28.9.10.20 so more especially towards those of whom there is greater hope and expectation that they shall one day liue in the publike sight of men Gen. 49.1.2 and as it were in the face of the common wealth and of the Church For that it was knowne to Bathsheba that Salomon her sonne should succeed in the Kingdome it appeares 1. Kings 1.13.17 and that Dauid had three other sonnes borne to him by Bathsheba it is manifest 1. Chron. 3.5 And hitherto of the former part of this Chapter There followeth the speech or admonition of Bathsheba the Mother Verse 2. to her sonne Salomon which consisteth in two things First in an insinuating into fauour or a foregarding of that which shee hath to speake verse 2. Secondly in the preceps shee giueth to him verse 3. And in the whole chapter following In the former Bathsheba doth it that Salomon might vnderstand that he was only and most deerely loued of her and therefore that this her charge vnto him poceeded from a most entire and feruent loue towards him Hitherto belongeth her affectionate speech whereby shee giueth him to vnderstand that her loue towards him was the greater and that by the feruent and louing affection of her minde shee would teach him more things then by her words he could attaine vnto From whence it is to be vnderstood that in euery instruction or admonition publike or priuate from equals or vnequals diligent heede is to bee taken not onely that it doe proceede from loue but also that it may bee made knowne vnto those to whom such admonition is giuen that they are beloued of them who in regard of their office and calling doe take vpon them to admonish and instruct them As also by how much the greater and harder things are giuen in charge it is meete that there bee so much the more plentifull and more abundant testimony declared of their loue towards them that are admonished But aboue all things it is most commendable to leaue testimony of this loue Iosh 7.19 whereas more sharpe medicines both of words and punishments are applied Which thing to any man that will apply his minde vnto it may easily appeare to haue beene obserued of the Apostle both in the Epistle to the Galathians Gal. 4.14.19 as also in the second of the Corinthians 2. Cor. 11.11 2. Cor. 12.15 for as the Chyrurgions before they minister more sharpe and biting remedies doe vse certaine lenitiues and molitiues so in sharpe correction a more plentifull testimony of loue as it were a mollitiue ought to be set before Whereas shee calleth him the sonne of her vowes it appeareth that shee not onely delt with Salomon for his godly education but also commended this matter to God without whom all her paines taken to enforme and instruct him would be but lost and in vaine But whereas shee vsed not prayers onely but vowes and that not one but many shee did therein declare both her singular loue towards Salomon and her pietie towards God Furthermore it ought to giue comfort and courage vnto parents that there is such plentifull fruit of the mothers instruction prayers and vowes as they by that meanes may through Gods blessing haue a sonne excelling both in piety wisdome and glory And hitherto of the first part of her speech It followeth that we speake of the instructions which are of two sorts First of things to be eschewed and auoided and secondly of things to be pursued and followed Verse 3. Giue not thy strength to women nor thy waies to those that destroy Kings THe scope and drift of this Prouerbe is by propounding a grieuous losse and punishment to terrifie Salomon from filthinesse a disswasion or dehortation from filthy lusts and the reason of this disswasion Although I cannot according to my vow endow thee with lessons and instructions yet will I endeuour to doe what I can therein Besides the aptnesse and pronenes of youth to fall into this sinne a Kingly state and condition doth many times kindle flames of lust Ezek. 16. ●8 49 and doth minister helpes vnto them as first a bountifull table furnished with variety of delicates then his seruants and those which are conuersant with him who because of their number being of sundry dispositions there will not want among them such as will be very forward and ready to stirre vp and satisfie the lusts of Kings as appeareth Gen. 12.15 20.2 and 2. Sam. 11.3 2. Sam. 13.4.5 But aboue all things the greatest spurre and entisement to this sinne is the hope of impunity that there will be none that will punish them according to their desert nor that will so much as dare to mutter against them or to say Sir why haue you done this which if it were worthily weighed and considered ought to be a bridle vnto Kings to keepe them backe and restraine them from that vice Forasmuch as in neglecting this duty of admonishing them their estate should bee very dangerous considering that euen Dauid himselfe after the adultery he had committed did not by repentance turne vnto God before he was by the reprehension of the Prophet Nathan drawen out of that sinke of filthinesse whereinto hee was fallen The reason of this exhortation is drawen from the inconuenience ensuing to wit that by this vice Kings and Kingdomes are destroyed Iob 31.3.9.10.11.12 And as in priuate men by this vice their strength is infeebled and made weake Pro. 7.22.23 Hos 4.11 Pro. 7. the powers and faculties of the minde are taken away and their whole estate is consumed so especially in Kings who doe more grieuously offend to the vtter ouerthrow of their Kingdomes and the truth of this as in a most cleere glasse is to be seene Iudg. 20.46 Iud 21.3 First in the Beniamites who for the rauishing of one woman were almost rooted out then in Dauid who lacked little 2. Sam. 12.10.11 but that he had lost the Kingdome both from himselfe his posterity Lastly in Salomon 1. King 11.11 who notwithstanding he was the richest man that euer was or will be yet by his monstrous and beastly lusts was brought to that state Neh. 13.26 it requiring and exacting great tributes 1. King 4.7 7 4 and subsidies of his subiects he gaue occasion that ten tribes fell from his sonne True it is indeed that these men did all of them escape vtter destruction because they repented But if God so seuerely and sharply punished two whole tribes and two Kings so notable and famous for their piety Where shal that man be found whose sinnes he will spare Verse 4. Be it farre from Kings ô Lemuel be it farre from Kings to drink wine or Rulers the desire of strong drinke Verse 5. Least hee drinke and forget the ordinance and so change the