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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

Clay whose foundation is the Dust And so labor to attain the peace of a good Conscience to be unto them a continual feast and to believe that god liness is great gain for it hath the promise both of this life and of the life to come And to be able to distinguish between things terrene momentary and transitory and things durable eternal and celestial and to consider that the body is but a base Countrey Churl but the Soul is a very great Lord and if they had two such guests to entertain in their Houses they would blush and be ashamed to provide for the Churl all fitting accommodations and to neglect the great Lord making little or slow provision for him Also to consider That the World it self must Wax old as doth a Garment and a time will come and that shortly when the Sun shall be darkned and the Moon shall not give her light when the stars shal fall from Heaven and the powers of Heaven shall be shaken and when ye shall hear the sound of the Trumpet in your ears saying Arise ye dead and some to judgment and then the Graves shall be opened and the dead shall arise the Sea also shall yield up her dead and all flesh shall appear naked before Gods triou●● seat then and there to receive a recompence and reward not for but according to the works which they have done be they good 〈◊〉 And these things being so as most certainly they are what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy Conversations and in Godliness How ought ye to give all diligence to make your Calling and Election sure that ye be in the number of Christs little flock for whom he hath prepared a Kingdom before the foundation of the world was laid that so whensoever it shall please him to summon you to appear before him whether in the morning or in the eveving the Cock crowing or the dawning of the day ye may with the wise Virgins have your Oyl burning in your Lamps even the fruit of a pure Conversation and so may enter into your Masters joy And having been found faithful in little ye may be made ruler and over much and then ye must be content to make your Bed in the darkness and to say to Corruption Thou art my Mother and to the Worms Ye are our sisters and our brethren Therefore it is high time for you to give over reading the 31 Chapter of the Proverbs which teacheth onely matter of good Houswivery and be more careful to read and study other places of the Scripture which do put you in minde of the Immortality of the Soul that so ye may make timely provision for it and cry out with the Goaler in the Acts saying Men and Brethren what shall we do to be saved By this time I doubt not but ye have a desire to go to Heaven and for your furtherance in so happy a journey I will be bold to acquaint you with three ways leading thereunto First there be some that steale into Heaven by works of Mercy and deeds of Charity when they feed the hungary and clothe the naked and suffer none to perish for want of clothing nor no poor to be without covering but rather that their Loines may bless them being warned with the Fleece of their sheep and yet all this to be so performed that the right hand shall not know what the left hand doth Secondly there be some who are driven and beaten as 't were into Heaven as by trouble affliction persecution poverty sickness or the like for then you know what is spoken in the Psalmist In their affiction they will seek me diligently Thirdly there are others who take or seize the Kingdom of Heaven by force and violence as it is spoken in the Scripture the Kindom of Heaven suffereth violence as when it is gotten by earnest importunity as the poor importunate Widdow who overcame the unrighteous Judge and even forced him to grant her request or as Jacob contending all night with Christ himself telling him that unless he blessed him he would not let him go So if it please God to make you so happy as to find out either of these three ways ye will then attaine the end of your hopes which is the salvation of your Souls which is of far greater price and value then all the things in the World nay then ten thousand Worlds for then ye shall come to live and raigne with the Eternal God Father Son and Holy Ghost and with his glorious Quire of Heavenly Angels and of the Spirits of just and holy men who have departed this life in the fear of his blessed name and there shall ye enjoy fulness of joy and that for evermore Now I come to my last and worst sort of Women namely lewd and vitious women who as I told you in the beginning are neither good for this World nor for the World to come and therefore I take the least care of them and will bestow the least pains upon them and the book of God makes mention of too many of them For there we reade of the monstrous impiety and horrid lust of Potiphars Wife so often assaulted the chastity of vertuous Joseph and that with impudency after deniall Yee read also of the intollerable pride of Queen Vasthi in not obeying the command of the King her husband and what became of her And of painted Jezabel whose blood the very Dogs licked up Also of Jobs Wife who gave her husband no better councel then to curse God and die and afterwards in his greatest misery how her breath was strange unto him though he intreated her for the fruit of her body And here I may not omit what experience almost every Assizes bringeth forth both in our days and the days of our Fore-fathers that seldome any notable Robberies or cruel Murthers have been committed but a woman or more had a hand in it and were the chief Contrivers and Actors thereof destroying the Mother with her sucking Babe and that without any pitty compassion or remorse and seldom any Assizes pass but some of them are indicted convicted and justly condemned and executed for killing and most unnaturally destroying the fruit of their own bodies But I call to remembrance a Book heretofore written by one Greene to teach men to beware of Cutpurses and discovering all their cunning secrets and underhand practises where by in the judgment of wise men he did much more harm then good and taught divers to becom Cutpurses who before had no thought to bend their studies that way Therefore I will forbear divers particular most wicked and barbarious actions which I could mention done and committed by Women which notwithstanding condemns not the generality of that Sex God forbid but shews that Passion and Affection in them either in love or hatred is much more extream and violent then in Men according to the verse of the Poet. Aut te vehementer amat vel te

A New-Years-Gift FOR WOMEN Being a true Looking-Glass Which they seldom 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 LONDON Printed by T. N. for the Author 1666. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY being made for and directed onely to those of the Feminine Gender GEntlewomen of what degree or condition soever whether high or low rich or poor nobly descended or sprung out of the Beggars Cottage I beseeeh you call to remembrance be some of you never so great and eminent That ye are all the Daughters of Eve who was the Author of much more evil to mankinde in seducing her Husband to eat of the forbidden Fruit then Judas was in betraying our Saviour for thereby not onely Adam and all his Posterity became accursed as ever since to eat their Bread in the sweat of their Brows but also the very Earth was cursed for his sake to bring forth Thorns and Thistles and all Creatures ever since even to this present day have do and will to the end of the World groan under the burthen thereof which I have thought fit to premise to work in you poverty of spirit and that excellent and adorning Grace of Humility which is the first second and third step to Heaven yet doth not abound in most Women But however that foundation being laid ye will be the better fitted and prepared patiently and without prejudice to read the ensuing Treatise especially if ye call to remembrance that intolerable Pride that high and transcendent Presumption and that unparallel'd Disobedience against the Mighty God committed by Eve in eating of the forbidden Fruit whereas in very few days before if not the same day she was made but of one of the crooked Ribs of her Husband and he himself but of the dust of the Earth And not to be content to live in that pleasant Garden and to eat of all the rare Fruits therein one Tree onely excepted but to aspire to be as God himself knowing good and evil and yet she was expresly forbidden by her Eternal Creator not to eat thereof telling her That the same day she did eat she should die yet she harkned to a lie told her by the Serpent that old deceiver who was a lier from the beginning being the ruthless enemy of mankinde And thereupon seeing that the Tree was good for meat and pleasant to the eye did eat and gave to her Husband preferring the voice of the Devil before the voice of Almighty God And good Women let me humbly entreat you to search your hearts Whether from that accursed example ye are not to this day more prone to give admission and entertainment to the dictates and cunning insinuations of Satan then to the blessed Motions of Gods holy Spirit I have often read over the whole Book of God and taken several Notes and many Collections out of the same and thereby am as well prepared to express the duties of Husbands towards Wives as of Wives towards Husbands for the Scripture is full of both which service I will readily do for any of your Sex who shall desire it and will be pleased to signifie so much unto the Printer hereof who will soon give me notice accordingly But I am loath to leave you sad and melancholy for notwithstanding this great transgression committed by your Grandmother there remains comfort to your self and to your Off-spring To your selves in that thorow-bearing of Children ye shall be saved to your off-spring in that God telleth the Devil thus Thou shalt break his head and he shall bruise thy heel Moreover Cornelius Agrippa writing in commendation of Women hath four notable Arguments to prove the nobleness of Women 1. From the more excellent Name which God who knew all Creatures before he named them gave to the first Woman thus Adam had his name from Earth but Eve hers from Life 2. From the order of time for God made Woman last and with her finished his work leaving off at his best and most perfected piece 3. From the place of her Creation Man was made without and was afterwards brought into the Garden of Eden but Eve was created even within Paradise it self 4. From the Matter Adam was formed out of Matter inanimate vile Clay but his Wife of a Matter purified and animated But I will draw to a conclusion and humbly entreat a favorable and charitable construction to be made of what I have here conceived and that I may not be so unhappy as to be stiled or so much as thought to be an enemy unto Women whom I love and honor and from whom I had my beginning sucking the Paps of my own Natural Mother and having been the Husband of two Wives and the Father of many Children both Sons and Daughters yet living Lastly I must acknowledge that I entred into the consideration of these things upon observation of the lives disposition and conversation of two Gentlewomen nearly related to me and both of my intimate acquaintance for divers years last past And therefore as some Almanack-makers write thus That their Book was calculated for the Meridian of such a place but may serve generally for all Great Britain so I hope and pray That this poor work of mine being principally intended only for the good of the two particular Gentlewomen before mentioned may speed as well and be useful in all places and then this Widows mite being accepted and having that operation will encourage me to publish another Work of a far higher concernment almost ready for the Press So commending it and all of you to Gods blessing I take leave and rest Your much devoted Servant WILLIAM HILL From Grays-Inn 20 Dec. 1659. THE WOMANS Looking-Glass I Must crave leave for method sake to rank Women into three sorts and to discourse of them in order one after another 1. Good and vertuous Women those I admire and adore confessing their price is above Solomons Rubies as being loving and obedient to their Husbands and being as fruitful Vines on the Walls of their Houses and their Children as Olive Plants round about their Tables and such who do their Husbands good and not evil all the days of their lives 2. Marthaes who cumber themselves about many things and forget that unum necessarium that one thing which is necessary and are onely for the things of this World and by Worldlings deemed and accounted the best Wives 3. Leud and vitious Women who are neither good for this World nor for the World to come To these of the first and best