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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05185	The book of Ruth expounded in twenty eight sermons, by Levves Lauaterus of Tygurine, and by hym published in Latine, and now translated into Englishe by Ephraim Pagitt, a childe of eleuen yeares of age	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1586 (1586)	STC 15319; ESTC S108368	118,172	336

instrument which he vsed in writing it The argument or matter of this book is this ELIMELECH in the tyme of a famine went with his wife his two sonnes out of BETHLEHEM into the land of MOAB There the father dying the sonnes took them wiues of the MOABITISH woman who after certaine yeares died thēselues out of their owne coūtrie leauing their mother and wiues aliue NAOMIE in the mean seasō being certified that God had giuen plentie to his people consulted for her return into her country Both her daughters in law do accópanie her she doth exhort both of thē that they would tarry with their kindred ORPAH therefore doth returne to her owne But RVTH when she could not be drawne away from her came with her mother in law to Beth●ehem in the beginning of haruest The Bethlemites marueiled what NAOMI ment by her cōming In the meane season RVTH went forth to gather eares for to norish her selfe and her mother in law and it was not without the prouidēce of God that she came into the field of her kinseman BOAZ When he comming into his field vnderstood of his bayly what shee was hee doth speake to her courteously and charge hys seruauntes and reapers that they hurt not her she thanking him being laden by him went home and she tolde her mother in lawe in order euery thing that befell to her She doth giue her counsell that shee should goe priuily into BOAZ barne and that shee shoulde lye downe at his feete being a sleepe and require him to be her husband according to the law of God which cōmandeth the brother or kinsmā to marry the wife of the brother or kinsman that is departed without a son RVTH doth obey her mother in law she doth demaund marriage of BOAZ who doth aunswere that there is another who is neerer of kinne to her then he was and if he would yeeld his ●ight he would marry her And when on the next day that kinsmā renoūced his right before the Iudges BOAZ maried her begat of her OBED DAVIDS grādfather This whole historie seemeth especially to consist of two partes The first in the rehearsall of the miseries of NAOMI RVTH The next in the change of the estate of those women c. namely how God had made thé rich again whom he had throwne down into great pouertie The scope and the especiall intent of this history is that the genealogie of DAVID and so of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ might be shewed who was of his seede according to the fleshe Christ is the scope and end of the law prophetes Also we shal heare hereafter that this matter befell when the Iudges raigned ouer Israell therfore it is well placed after the booke of the Iudges And though this booke is small yet it doth contain many notable things yeeldeth great vse to all the parts of life and therefore it may be compared to pretious stones of which though many are little yet they haue certaine excellent vertues This commēdation of holy scripture which is written in the second Epistle of Saint PAVLE to TIMOTHIE and the 3. chapter doth appertayn to all holy bookes and therfore to this also The whole scripture is giuē by the inspiration of God and is profitable to teache to improue to correct to instruct in righteousnes that the man of God may be absolute being made perfect vnto all good workes And also in the 15. chapter to the ROMAINES For whatsoeuer thinges are written afore time are written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might haue hope That wee may the better see the vse of this writing let vs mark some principal heads which are propounded in it Afterward euerie thing shall follow more fully in theyr places First as all holy bookes doe further vs to the knowledge of god so doth thys also For it doth teache that Christ the sonne of GOD came of the IEVVES and of the GENTILES which are sinners and therefore appertaineth to them both It doth teache that al thinges are gouerned by the prouidence of the most excellent and great God and also that by hys direction mariages are made betweene husb●ndes and wiues RVTH being willing to gather eares of corn that she might ●ether liuing fell into BO AZ fielde whiche was the occasion that shee b'ecan●e hys wife and mother to OBED We sh●ll see how God doth alwayes exercise t●e godly with diuers afflictions as pouertie barrennes bannishment and hunger and bring theyr estate to that passe so as they may seeme vtterly to be vndone but if they be not ouerwhelmed with aduersities but beare al things patiently looking for his heauenly helpe and calling on him oftentimes their afflictions are chaunged into a notable estate yea euen in this life Moreouer we shall learne out of this history howe God hath a care of the GENTILES and also that hee hath hys chosen amongest them as IETHRO NAAMAN the SIRIAN the widow of SAREPTA and the NINEVITES c Not that we say that they were saued without Christ. Also he would haue RAHAB and RVTH ioyned to the seed O ABRAHAM that the MESSIAS might be born of them in his appointed tyme. Wiues Mothers in lawe daughters in lawe widows fathers of housholds seruaūts labourers haue here notable examples to follow Let vs learne that strangers and poore men our kinsmē and those which are newly conuerted to true religion are to be well handled neither to be hurt in wordes nor deedes We haue a notable exāple propounded to vs how BOAZ kept his fayth also there are rewardes ordained for our vertues in this life Therfore let not any man say that it is all one whether we doe well or euill There are nine notable persons made mention of in this little booke ELIMELECH NAOMI MAHLON CHILION ORPAH RVTH BOAZ his bailiffe and the kinseman that did yeeld his right by euery one of them examples of our dueties are propounded to vs which by Gods assistāce we wil mark in theyr places Let vs giue great thanks for the vnspeakable gift of God that he would haue his holy scriptures to bee written and to be preserued through so many sharpe tempestes and read out of those fountaines to his Churches and let vs be occupied in them both day and night and cast away those lying and vnprofitable bookes in which fooles are most exercised CAP. 1 The 2. Sermon 1 In the time that the Iudges ruled there was a dearth in the land and a man of Bethlehem Iudah went to soiorne in the countrie of Moab he and his wife and his two sonnes 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomie and the names of his two sonnes Mahlon and Chilion Ephrathites of Bethlehem Iuda and when they came into the land of Moab they continued there THe thinges that are especially handled in this chapter are these ELIMELECH in the time of famine