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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

their insteritâ—â—ice to multiplie their Fathers family for wordly honour the Rewarde of the Religion THE REVVARD OF RELIGION Ruth Cap. 1. ver 1 2 3 4 5 6. 1. In the time that the Iudges ruled there was a famine in the land and a certain man of Bethleem Iudah went for to soiourne in the countrie of Moab hee and his wife and his two sonnes 2. And the name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wyfe Naomi and the names of his two sonnes Mahlon and Chilion Ephrathites of the lande of Iudah and when they were come into the land of Moab they continued there 3. Then Elimelech the husbande of Naomi died there and shee remained with hir two sonnes 4. Which tooke them wiues of the Moabites the name of the one was Horpah the name of the other Ruth they dwelled there about ten yeres 5. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both twaine so the woman was lefte destitute of her two sonnes and of her husband 6. Then she arose with her daughters in lawe and returned from the countrie of Moab for she had heard saie in the countrie of Moab that the Lord had visited his people giuen them bread ALthough the author of this booke of Ruth hath not expressed his name yet there is no doubt but it proceedeth from the spirit of God as well as the bookes of the Iudges Kings Chronicles which haue not the names of their authors described but if it may be lawfull to iudge or giue anie sentence thereof it was either Samuel or some other godly prophet vnder the raigne of Saul which is proued by the genealogies in the last chapter where Dauid is by name mentioned testifying vnto vs that it was then written when he was chosen from his bretheren and anointed king ouer Israell and yet before his raigne or els there had bene added vnto it the title of a King for the aduauncing of the name of Ruth who was his grande mother vppon whom this history following dependeth for the sumne and scope hereof is to shewe the pedigree or ancestry the naturall progenitours of Christe from Iudah the fourth sonne of Iacob vntill the time that he beganne to challenge the princelye seate the royall scepter the right of gouernment ouer the people of Israell which was at that time when Dauid was chosen from his fathers house anoynted king by Samuel Againe in this history there is deliuered vnto vs the hope which the fathers had concerning the calling of the Gentiles for this mariage of Ruth into the kindred of Christ who was a Gentile by nature none of the people of God did plainely foretell that the Gentiles shoulde be called in Christ for as hee tooke parte of his humane nature of them so he shewed vs that hee would giue the same for them that there might be no difference in his bodye between Iewes gentiles but that the power of his death the graces of the spirite and the knowledge of redemption might redounde to all Now the occasion of this history is deliuered vnto vs in this first Chapter which is the soiourning of a certaine Iew in the land of Moab by reason there was a famine in the land of Iudah with his familye and the returne of them that liued which were onely Naomi his wyfe and one other Ruth the Moabitesse the widdowe of his eldest sonne This wandering or soiourning is described with all the circumstuances thereof in these first sixe verses lately read and generally containe in them these two parts the first is theyr trauaile to the land of Moab the second those things that happened vnto them after they came thither The first parte is expressed in these two first verses first by the occasion which is declared by the time and by the thing that moued them thereunto in these wordes In the time that the Iudges ruled there was a famine c. Secondly by the persons that trauayled who are described by the place froÌ„ whence they were namely of Bethlehem Iudah these were the parents and the children which are named in the 2. ver The second part of these woordes is in the foure other verses following and it concerneth eyther the parents or the children the parents that one of them euen Elimelech the father of the familye dyed there shorâ—y after their arriuall the children first that they married ver 4 secondly that they likewise dyed ver 5 Then remained onely Naomi with hir two daughters in lawe and the time of her a bode in Moab is set downe to be ten yeares ver 4 secondly the occasion of hir departure because shee heard say that God had visited his people giuen them bread ver 6 of these partes let vs speake in order as the spirite shall giue vttrance and the time permit In the dayes that the Iudges ruled In these wordes the holy Ghoste after his accustomed manner for the more certaintye of the historye beginneth at the time as Moses beginneth his booke of Genesis from the first creation of the world so the prophets in the beginning of their bookes set downe vnder what king or kings they prophesied so also in the newe Testament we may see how three of the Euangelists beginne their Gospels from the preaching of Iohn Baptist and the raigne of king Herod The which order they vndoubtedly learned of the olde writers the same spirite guiding them to one and the same trueth vseth but one and the same manner of speaking For the almighty desiring to meete with the wrangling obiections of humane inuentions so tempereth the texte of euerie scripture as if question were made who did such a thing He nameth the persons where it was done He quoteth the place and when it was done Hee mentioneth the time The cause heereof is that hee might staie the waues of our sickle mindes vpon the piller of truth his euerlasting word But in this place he chiefly mentioneth the time of the Iudges to shew vnto vs that wheÌ„ religion was corrupted the worship of God decaied and idolatrye aduannced when the Lord was forgotten of his owne people when his lawes were no more obserued but euery man did that which seemed good in his owne eyes yea when there were almost as many Gods among them as they were men then euen then did the Lord send this plague of famine among them For Salomon sayth the blewnes of the wounde serueth to purge the euell and the stripes within the bottome of the belly as if he had sayd as the rypenes of a wounde calleth for a corasiue so the fulnes of sinne cryeth for vengeance by this therfore we note that the corruption of religion neglect of the worship of God is the cause of all his iudgments that are exercised in the world For the idolatry of Ieroboam and his sinnes whereby hee induced Israell to sinne did the Lord threaten by Achia the prophet to

in not redeeming the inheritance before this day that his couetousnes was so great that he had forgot the very lawe of God and finally he might haue called vpon the Magistrates for some punishment to be inflicted on him for his disobedience to the lawe of God and neglect of his duetie towarde Naomi But he doeth none of these but soberly in the presence of the elders hee turneth his gentle speech to the partye and hauing propounded the matter requireth a present answere Whereby wee are admonished that with the like charitie wee handle our neighbours if wee haue them at any aduantage for this is that meekenes that causeth to inherit the earth for thereby we follow Christ with whome we shall find rest for our soules for loue dealeth not churlishly it seeketh not his owne it is not bitter it thinketh no euill Therefore as Paule intreated the Ephesians so must I intreate you that we so walke as is worthy our vocation vnto the which we are called in all modestie meekenes and gentlenes of minde bearing with one another through charitie Oh how vngodly are these clamorous accusations among vs for which many lye in wayte that they might haue any cause to draw their bretheren as it were starke naked into the presence of the magistrates that is with most impudent and shamelesse vntruthes to charge and examine them vpon their owne suspitions neuer thinking on the iniuries they offer vnto them or looking for the same measure againe at the hands of other Some there arâ— also which for euery trifling farthing will call their neighbors before the Magistrate delighting in their owne iniuries the troubles of their friends the disquietnes of the Magistrates and the abuse of the lawe whose impatient constitution calleth for vengeance at the hands of the Lord and the curse of the land is gone out against them nothing is wanting but that the braunches of their vnquiet spirits should be pruned by the sword of iustice by them to whome they make their complaints Secondly by this example of Boaz we gather that the onely cause of bringing suites before the elders and magistrates was the peace and quietnes of the people not for the kindling but the quenching of contention before it arose that the dayly brawling rayling chiding and quarrelling might be preuented by the wisedome of the Magistrates for as the Philistines tooke away all the armour from the Israelites to keepe them from rebellion so Magistrates hearing of causes with seueritie and iustice should take away the instruments of oppressions and the weapons of contentious persons from the common wealth Thirdly by this also we gather the diuersitie of proceeding in iudiciall causes in these dayes and the times past Then men in their owne persons did pleade in iudgement their owne causes but now others make gaine of it then suites were not so tedious as now they are then men sought not out such sliding shifts to couer their falsehood but they did as Boaz and his kinseman doeth the one simply propounded his griefe and the other gently answered his question for so should euery one vtter the truth indifferently both to their benefit and damage then the world was not troubled with writs fees or counsellors but euery man brought his cause and his witnes so the iniury was quickly confessed easily tried and speedily remedied finally we retaine almost nothing of the auncient manners in this point but only the bare and outward names By the which we are admonished of humane misery for as the world groweth the troubles thereof are increased in the first age they had no warres in the second age they had no certaine dwellings in the third age they had no chargeable suits in the fourth age they had no quietnes and euer since warres haue multiplied bloud one countrey caried to another mens lawfull inheritances are taken by violence the Church is spoyled of her libertie the world of her peace our bodies of their health our goods of their continuance our names of their credit our corne of increase our lands of their fruits and all our liues of their naturall benefites Our Sauiour shewed vs that before the end the loue of many should waxe cold but surely it is not onely cold but frozen in our lamentable age the Apostle hath shewed vs that men should be louers of themselues and louers of pleasures more then God when shall these dayes be if they be not now may we not see that euery man raketh for his profite as the Eagle raueneth for her pray if they may get house or land leases or farmes goodes or carrels money or meate apparell or ease they care not though all other lye harborles in the fields naked in the streetes and pining in their weary and dayly labours Doeth not now the Gentleman make more accompt of his worship then the worship of God the Merchant of his profit then of Iesus Christ the husbandman of his fruits then of the feare of the Lord the labourer of his wages then the wealth of his soule the begger of his almes then of vnfained deuotion euery craftesman of his trade more then of true religion when shall the day of vengeance come for the Church of God trauaileth with child of these miseries and euery day is a thousand till she be deliuered surely the day cannot be long before the small remedy appeare But Boaz. said After he had entred with the land and the other had graunted to redeeme it he proceedeth also to the second part of his speech telling him if he redeeme it he must redeeme it at the hand of Ruth the Moabitesse the wife of the dead with whome he must marry to rayse vp the name of the dead vpon his inheritance This law for a man to marry with the widdow of his deceased brother as it is commaunded by the Lord so it had a speciall regard to many things first for the continuance of the first borne in euery family who were the Lords by the law signifying thereby that Christ the first borne of the almightie should remayne with all his Church like the first borne of this world and be the heyres of grace for euer and euer And as he would not suffer any family to want a first borne because it was the Lords so not one of the faithfull can be lost because they are the Lords Secondly because it was an image of the resurrection for as a man being dead without issue his brother taketh his wife begetteth a sonne which shall be called the sonne of the deceased and he which is dead shall liue in him in as much as his name is reuiued euen so the body layd dead in the graue shall be reuiued at the last day by the powerfull working of the almighty for as the first is wonderfull so the second is admirable Thirdly by this lawe of subrogation is signified the great care which the Lord had for the temporall augmenting of euery family among the Israelites

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