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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13823	The revvard of religion Deliuered in sundrie lectures vpon the booke of Ruth, wherein the godly may see their daily and outwarde tryals, with the presence of God to assist them, and his mercies to recompence them: verie profitable for this present time of dearth, wherein manye are most pittifully tormented with want; and also worthie to bee considered in this golden age of the preaching of the word, when some vomit vp the loathsomnes therof, and others fall away to damnable securitie.	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 24127; ESTC S105980	250,925	363

were imploied in their own busines let not the new soddaine vp start wealthy men among vs disdaine at poore laboring persons or thinke it any disgrace to do as their fathers did faithfully to labour in the meanest vocation Secondly after Boaz came to the field he saluteth the reapers saith The Lord be with you they answered The Lord blesse thee where wee see the first thing he doth he prayeth for the labourers in this his godly salutation for he wisheth the presence of God to be with them which is his fauour for his presence signifieth his fauour and blessing as absence betokeneth his iudgments and cursings This we may see in the dedication of the temple by Salomon the glory of the Lord so filled it that y e priests were not able to sacrifise in it the angel saluteth Mary the mother of Christ w t the selfe same wordes The Lord be with thee wherin he signified the wonderfull fauour of God vnto her which should be the mother of the Messiah And on the contrary the absence of the Lord is the heauy wrath of his maiesty as appeareth by that complaint of Dauid Wil the Lord absent himselfe for euer or hath he forgotten to be mercifull and Paul saith that the wicked are separated with euerlasting destruction from the glory presence of God By the which we learn how reuereÌ„tly we must vse our salutations least when we wish the fauour of the Lord to be present with others his mercy through our vnaduised praier be absent froÌ„ our selues for how lamentable is it to heare in many places with one breath prayers to be powred out for other and bitter blasphemyes against the maiesty of God with wofull curses to the death of their soules May wee gather any comfort by these salutations when men in derision passing by other shall vse the salutation of Boaz other wishing they know not what do as well by their ignorant greetings pray for their owne destruction as their neighbours prosperitie such precious balmes let them not come vpon the heads of the righteous for this is as certaine as the world shall haue an end that all their supplications either at morning noone or euening are but mere customary speeches proceding of the vsage manner of men not of the spirit or religion of the faithful Yet let it not grieue vs to vse this language of Canaan the phrase of the scripture in our ciuill and godly comunication and though al the world cry out puritanisme puritanisme yet blessed is hee that is not offended at Christ Let the SamaritaÌ„s worship in their mountaines but we will worship at Ierusalem in spirit in truth and let vs vse in despight of the world y e weighty wordes of God his spirit that they may be our owne mother speech we the children of the church the heires of saluation But in this it is noted to be the duety of all men to salute them whome they meete to pray for the successe of laborers and workmen For wel we must remember that except the Lord doe build the house the builders build but in vaine and except the Lord do giue the victorie what though millions of horses be prepared of y e battel surely it is in vain to rise early and to go late to bed eate the bread of carefulnes to labour hard coÌ„passe the world by a thousand deuises except their own prayers the prayers of the faithful appeare in the presence of the eternall for theÌ„ And this noteth the carnal constitutions of many mens harts among vs which rashly enterprise their workes without calling on the Lord vnprofitably end theÌ„ to their owne destruction Oh how it grieueth God his Saintes dayly to heare his name abused by swearing euen among them that husband the earth They crye out on theyr seruants morning and euening abroad abroad to worke to the field but who sayth come let vs first fall downe together and humble our selues in the presence of God and call for a blessing vppon our labours or saie thus much The Lord bee with vs no no that will hinder their dayes worke they hire theyr seruants to labour and not to praie Therefore the prophet sayth You sowe much but you bring but little in you eate but you are not filled you drinke and are not satisfied you cloath your selues but you are not warmed and he that receiueth wages putteth it into a broken bag therefore thus sayth the Lord Hearken vnto my wayes This is the plague vppon vs that minde our wealth and not the welfare of God his Church therefore we labour lyke slaues but other receiue the benefite by vs wee imagine the earth bringeth forth of it selfe children are borne by nature the cloudes must needes raine and our fruites must needs increase thus wee make many Gods while wee ascribe the power of God to his creatures But be not so rude as brute beasts the dogge will craue his meate at the hands of his master more accursed are they which pray not for a blessing at the hands of God the father Thirdly by this salutation of Boaz wee obserue the dutie of elder persons or superiors which is first to salute or speake to their inferiors as masters to seruants magistrates to subiectes and pastours to their people yet against this in outward behauiour we haue many and dayly offences for you shall haue Gentlemen and yeomen which will hardly speake to a poore man being asked a question by him much lesse when they meet him will they giue anie curteous or friendly greeting But heere we see Boaz though honorable yet humble saluteth his poore and hired reapers who condemneth ten thousand that are contrarie minded for proud and surly persons Olde Eli would speake to young Samuel a little boy though hee were the high priest yet hee scorned not so gentle a child what then shall become of these stately person which being saluted will not salute againe as if euery word were gold that commeth from them so sparing are they to speake to a poore or a simple man whereas with their betters their tongs are too bigge for their mouthes whome they wearye with their vnprofitable bablings This kind of euill spirite wil not be cast out till the heart be humbled pride abated sorrowe for sin increased and the whole man perfectly regenerated for by thy wordes thou shalt bee iustified and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned for an humble heart will shew it with meeknes but a proud heart will looke strangely Fourthly as Boaz praied for the reapers so the reapers returned to him and sayd The Lord blesse thee Where wee see a mutuall salutation much commended for as hee saluted so was hee resaluted like to the Queene of Shebah which gaue princely gifts to king Salomon and Salomon gaue royall rewardes to her againe so that inferiours are bound by the same lawe with as kind affection to pray for

The first is the perswasion of Naomi in the 15. verse to make Ruth to returne by the example of her sister The second is the answere of Ruth in the two next verses consisting of two partes the first is the petition shee maketh to her mother in these words Intreat me not to leaue thee c. which she amplifieth by the resolution of her minde in the next wordes First that for her life she would dvvell vvith her and goe vvith her Secondly for her profession her people and God shoulde be Naomies Thirdly for her death that she vvould die and be buried vvith her The last part of this aunsvvere of Ruth is the confirmation of it by an oth in these wordes the Lorde doe so vnto me and more also if ought but death depart thee and me Beholde thy sister is returned Novv Naomi goeth forward to deale with Ruth alone for the Castle may seeme almost wonne where one halfe of the souldiers are ouercome the vnitie betweene these two sisters being brokeÌ„ and Horpah being departed what was poore Ruth able to doe alone surely this was a greater discouragement vnto her then any she had yet namely that her sister being departed shee should lay before her her sisters example to drawe her likewise to fall And truely thus the Spirite of God dealeth most times with those that labour to come vnto him setting some in the way like the Disciples which forbadde young children to come vnto Christ and as the prease of people kept the poore man diseased of the palsy from comming to our Sauiour euen so many scandals stumbling blockes lettes interruptions and hinderances come between the godly Christ as did betweene Naomi and Ruth But here we note that the examples of our kindred and especially of those that seemed any thing in Religion are dangerous argumentes to drawe vs from Christ Wee see in this place Naomi taketh not example of one vngodly sister to draw away the other which when our Sauiour forelawe he gaue this commaundement that for his sake we must forsake both father and mother brother and sister wife children or else we are not worthie of him And in another place one desiring of him but a little space to burie his father he saide vnto him let the dead burie their dead This is a verie profitable doctrine for these dayes wherein men are thus discouraged from Religion for feare of their friendes for now Satan stirreth vp one brother against another to hinder them from hearing the sauing worde of God now they crie out against vs Are you wiser then your forefathers Hath not all thy friendes before thee beleeued on this wife And wilt thou be singular And surely beloued we knowe it is the greatest argument that popish atheists haue their auncestours fathers mothers their masters and mistresses haue misliked this preaching and these new doctrines wherein many repose their greatest felicitie and God send vs saye they to liue no worse then they did and to die no more blessed then they But woulde you so rather be followers of your popish and ignoraunt predecessours then of the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles reueiled in his worde this is to builde your selues vpon another foundation which when the fire commeth will vtterly consume it But they say are all our predecessours damned which did as we doe to whome I may well aunswere How doe you know that all your fathers were of your mindes but wee are not in God his place to iudge and araigne them but say with the Apostle The time of this ignoraunce did not God regard but nowe hee admonisheth all men euery where to repent Because hee hath appointed a day to iudge the world in righteousnesse So that if God seeme not to regarde it why shoulde we stande vpon it And seeing now the trumpet of the Gospell is sounded by the Lordes Ministers let vs not with Marie lament ouer the graues of the dead But leauing them at their rest trudge trauaile to the mount of the Lord that of him we may freely receiue that which many kings prophetes could neuer obtain Though Moses went not into the land of Canaan yet he saw it so it may be the Lord let our predecessors see the light of y e gospel though they could not inioy it But as Peter Iohn wer with Christ wheÌ„ he was traÌ„sfigured saw his kingdom yet could not enioy the continuall presence of his glory but beeing warned of Christ tolde it to no man so many godly in time of darknesse not onely saw but imbraced the trueth which it may be is forgotten of their graceles posterity Let the parents eate the sowre grapes shal the childrens teeth be set an edge if they made cakes to the host of heauen shal we worship the sun the moone what discredite is it to a blinde father that hath a son well sighted no more is it to idolaters whose children are the appointed heires of the lande of Canaan Let vs abide with him that hath the wordes of eternall life as the wealth of our parentes is deare vnto vs yet many thousand times more dearer is the health of our soules Secondly by this we note that to sticke by our frendes to go with them from the Lord is to commit idolatry for Naomi saith Thy sister is gone to her people and to her Gods as if she had said indeed for kindredssake she is gone backe but it is vnto idols false Gods Yea more also vnto deuilles this is a worthy lesson for our naturals to learne who will forsake gospel church prayer preaching some for the loue of their wiues to keepe them company at home when God calleth for them in one congregation or other some their idolatrous frendes which are notable recusants yet because they should thinke well of theÌ„ they will falsifie their faith to the Lorde be vniust in his worke that they may please theÌ„ with their present company some are hindred by their profite some by vnlawfull gaming and many by bare idlenes Thus men make gods some of their people some of their wiues some of their popishe frends some of their profit some of their pleasures and some of their idlenes few or none are to be found that are both able willing to follow Christ when he calleth theÌ„ as litle Zacheus did but euery one hath some excuse to keep them from the Lords supper who shal neuer tast of his heauenly pleasures seeing they mind earthly things making their glory their shame their bely their God let their end be damnation But oh my beloued let vs be warned by the danger of others wheÌ„ Peter rebuked Christ bid him fauor himselfe Christ rebuked him called him sathan eueÌ„ so wheÌ„ our deerest frendes would haue vs be slacke in preaching fauour our bodies come to the church seldome make no toile of it agree with the most

Lord resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble and meeke the prodigal son by speaking most vilely of himselfe purchased his fathers fauour Euen so these hard speeches of our selues and other penitent sinners are as faithfull messengers to reconcile vs vnto God Secondly by this wee note how we must be inabled to encounter or resist the examples of others that are laid against vs to draw vs froÌ„ God euen as Ruth doth in this place Naomi telleth her Horpah is turned away and therefore shee must also Ruth answereth Where thou dwellest I will dwell as if shee had said if thou turne backe I will turne backe also but I know thy constancy is such as thou wilt neuer yeld therefore all the examples of my slippery sister and fearefull falawaies in the world shal neuer moue me it is thy constancy that I looke vpon nothing els which is as a safe ship for me to saile in through the waues of my vnstedfast minde so that by this you perceiue how she opposeth the stedfastnes of her mother against the backsliding of her sister depending vpon the surest hold not vpon a broken staffe Euen so must we against the examples of vngodly ruffians set the examples of sober minded Match the world and Christ together what shall the world get If it say be ignorant the other saith if the gospel be hid it is to them that be lost if it say folow the ways of thy own hart the other saith for this thou shalt come to iudgment if the world say bee couetous inrich thy self by gaming cosning carding dising buying selling the other saith such shal not inherit God his kingdome if the world say seeke honor the church saith it is vanity if it say esteem best of thy selfe the other saith thinke better of another if it wish thee prosperity the church saith rather suffer aduersity with God his children then to enioy the pleasures of sin for a season So the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh if thou be tempted to insidelity remember Abraham that beleeued in hope vnder hope and beyond hope if to incontinency remember Ioseph the mirror of chastitie if to impatiency thinke vpon Iob if to vniust dealing remember Iacob if to idlenes think on the pismire if to drunkennesse remember what Dauid did with the water of the well of Bethleem This is vsual in the scripture to exhort by examples Peter wisheth godly women to looke vpon Sara her obedience Iames willeth the poore in his dayes to take the prophets for an example of patieÌ„ce Paul exhorteth the Corinthians to liberality by the example of the Macedonians euen so on the contrary threatnings are denounced by the example of others as we may often read in the Gospel The Lord saith the Queene of Sheba shall rise in iudgment against the nation of the Iewes which came to heare the wisdome of Salomon likewise he prouoketh them by the exaÌ„ple of the publicans harlots telling them they shall bee preferred in the kingdome of God I thinke there is none so simple but they know they ought rather to followe the wise than the foolish virgines But some will say now the world is altogether corrupted the most part is the worst part therfore they must needs follow their manners and be defiled To whom I answere if thou were in a litle bark vpon the greatest sea sawest a thousand mighty waues about thee like huge mountaines woldest thou forsake thy litle barke which is alone leap into the middest among the waues because they are many so thou shouldest worke thy own destruction eueÌ„ so wilt thou forsake the maners life company of a few godly persons with whom is safety to wallow in the millions of worldly men with whom is no peace but is like the raging sea y t cannot rest shalt not thou be tossed with them I will not say troubled but euerlastingly confounded I grant we should liue by precept not by example but seeing we must needs see the Gospell before we beleeue it let vs looke on the liues of the purest fewest among vs ioine our selues to them as Noah to his arke that the water flouds of euerlasting destruction ouerwhelme vs not in eternall damnation Thy God By these wordes it may seeme that Ruth is not so wel grounded in the knowledge of God as she ought to be in that she dependeth vpon her mother in saying thy God is my God as if she had said if thou worship the true God so wil I if thou be an idolater so wil I if thou turne backward so will I if thou go forward so wil I. But I take it far otherwise that these words proceed froÌ„ a hart fully grounded vpon the truth as if she had said I know Naomi thou wilt neuer worship any Gods but the true God thou art constant in that which thy selfe hast taught mee I remaine stedfast in that which I learned of thee and therefore I can neuer forsake thee The which interpretation is confirmed by the wordes that follow Thy people my people who were Naomies people but the Iewes which alwayes worshipped the true God so that if Naomi could change her birth parentage people and country then also in the mind of Ruth she could change her God and as shee was persuaded she knew her people so she knew her God and as she thought she could not change her people so she conceiued she wold neuer alter her worship so that these words proceed of a stedfast persuasion in the knowledge of God and an assured hope of her mothers continuance Euen as wheÌ„ the king of Babel calleth the almighty by the name of the God of Shadrach Meshach Abednego was persuaded he was the true God by y e miraculous deliuery of those his seruants froÌ„ the fâ—ry furnace And as the king of Media called him by the name of Daniels God because he had deliuered him froÌ„ the hungry lions euen so Ruth called the true God by the name of Naomies God because she was instructed by her But some wil say is it not lawful for vs to depend von our fathers or elder frends in religion or to beleeue as the church or as catholique men beleeue I answere if the question bee made of the necessary pointes to saluation as the knowledge of the trinitie the worke of our redemption with such like it is by no meanes lawfull for vs to depend vpon men though they be the chiefest in knowledge and the greatest in authority in al the world if they teach it neuer so truly yet we must haue recourse to the word of God For Paul wished the Corinthes that they should be followers of him as he was of God as if he had said where I agree with God and his word consent with me where I disagree dissent from me We know what commendation the Lord giueth the Iewes of

baser they will enuie them this mischiefe had godly Ioseph noted when hee commanded his seruants to vse his brethren so kindly and Dauid by a seruant was whetted on to bee reuenged vppon Saul Therefore right worshipfull and yet our brethren in Christ as you are careful in your owne persons to do good to the godly euen so followe this Boaz in commanding your seruants to deale friendly also I knowe you shall neuer choose all your seruants of your owne disposition yet if you often warne them you maye chance to winne them for the beginning of religion is the loue of them that professe it euen as hunger in a sicke person is a token of recouerie Then shall you cheerefully receiue Christ into our houses in his poore members and ioyfully assure your consciences you haue vnfainedly loued him for hee which hath giuen his Angels charge ouer vs willeth also that we should giue our seruantes charge ouer our brethren the vnkindnesse which many poore soules haue receiued at the handes of your churlish and stubborne seruantes hath discomforted them more than all your liberalitie hath comforted them What accesse coulde the little children haue to Christ wheÌ„ the disciples forbad them euen so how shal we repaire to your dwellings when your owne seruants so much as in them lyeth diswarn vs of your houses keepe vs from your presence enuie our meetings and deride our profession Wherefore she fell This verse concerneth Ruth and her answere to those wordes of Boaz first her gesture is described that she fel vpon the earth bowed hir selfe to the ground that is with all shewe of humilitie secondly she commendeth this his kind curtesie because she was a stranger so that by outward behauiour shee gratifieth his gentlenes and exalteth his liberality toward hir by the consideration of her own person which was a stranger therefore vnworthy of so great kindnes Out of the which we chiefely obserue first that it is a dutye of the poorer sort not onely to acknowledge their thankfulnes by woordes but also to testifie it by outward submission for Abraham himselfe vsed it euen to the idolatrous Hithits wheÌ„ they gaue him leaue to bury his dead twise together This noteth a greater thankfulnes then all the wordes of the worlde in somuch as it is accounted a speciall duetye belonging to superiors as wee may see in Bathshebah to her husband when shee came to tell him how Adoniah raigned and likewise in king Salomon towarde her when she came to aske Abisag Now if these stately persons bowed themselues but in curtesie much more ought wee of duety Then is heere condemned the vnciuill behauiour of many stout personnes which are so farre from bowing that they will hardly thanke theyr brethren for their liberalityes accounting it their duty as they say to giue as if also it were not their dutie to bee thanfull The knowne example of the ten leapers doeth much commend this kind of thankfull behauiour and also condemne the ingratefull affection Other there bee that are in such loue with this cap and knee that it doth them more good to see the poore people bende vnto them then they reioyse that they haue giuen for Christes sake insomuch as they giue that themselues and not the Lord might bee honoured This lacke of reuerence in the one and loue of honour in the other are both vnlawfull because they both proceed from one roote which is the pride of our owne heartes and the conceit of our owne persons But some will say wee do but as that godly Mordecai did which refused to honour the wicked Haman so wee abstaine from doing reuerence to the proud and vaineglorious because wee will not feede their disposition Vnto whom I answere that there were manye causes for which Mordecai refused to bend vnto Haman which they can neuer alledge for themselues the first because he was a wicked Amalekite of a nation whom the Lord commanded the Iewes vtterly to destroy neyther to spare man woman or child as appeareth in the historye of Saule who because he transgressed this commandement of God in sauing Agag their king and certaine oxen to sacrifise it cost him his kingdome and displeasure of God Because of this lawe of the Lorde Mordecai woulde do no honour to this childe of destruction and was blameles Secondly it is thought that the honour which Haman obtained was proper onely to God because hee was aduanced aboue all other and such kind of reuerence we must alway beware of for Shedrach Meshach and Abednego had rather dye then fall downe before the image of the king of Babylon euen so wee must not giue more to man then is his owne but vnto Caesar the thinges which are Caesars and vnto God the things which are Gods And if any for these causes defend their stately behauiour let them consider that the Lord bids vs not to destroy but rather to loue our enemyes And though they require such worship as is due onely to God yet we must not refuse to giue them that which belongeth to man Other can be content to honour them whom they knowe to be godly but the wicked they thinke vnworthy of reuerence because our sauiour would do none to Herod or Pilate Paule to the high Priest when hee called him painted wall To whom I answere that Christ though he called Herode a foxe and woulde do no miracle before him because hee desired but to wonder and not to gloryfie God by it Yet gaue to Herod that duety which pertained vnto him Likewise vnto Pilate when hee tolde him his power came of the Lorde so Paule did reuerence not onely the high priest but also Felix Festus Agrippa who were heathen men though magistrates and therefore were honourable by the lawe of God So then this must remaine for a grounded truth that our betters must bee honoured as men not worshipped as God wee must with Abraham bende as well to the idolatrous Hebron as with Bathshebah to godly Dauid if they receiue more then they are worthy it is not our default but their danger let vs giue to the prophanest person his right and vngodliest caytife that which is his owne Secondly by this wee note that the godlye in giuing must haue no respect of persons countrey or kindred strangers or neyghbours children as Boaz did heere to Ruth who by her owne confession was a stranger and therefore vnworthy but wee shewed you this in the first chapter by the example of the Moabites to Elimelech and his family to bee a thing incident to very naturall men and by them condemned that vse it not much more in them that haue known the truth The which Abraham did to angelles wherevppon the Apostle wisheth to keepe hospitalitie for so some haue receyued angelles in steede of men The Lorde commaunded verie sharplye that no violence bee done to strangers neither yet that any should oppresse

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