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A84659	Theion enōtikon, A discourse of holy love, by which the soul is united unto God Containing the various acts of love, the proper motives, and the exercise of it in order to duty and perfection. Written in Spanish by the learned Christopher de Fonseca, done into English with some variation and much addition, by Sr George Strode, Knight.; Tratado del amor de Dios. English	Fonseca, Cristóbal de, 1550?-1621.; Strode, George, Sir, 1583-1663.	1652 (1652)	Wing F1405B; Thomason E1382_1; ESTC R772	166,624	277

then Esau the elder I and Jacob affected his two youngest Joseph and Benjamin more then his first born Reuben and Simeon and King David placed the crown on the head of Salomon contrary to the Jews law and custome though he had six sons elder then Salomon and a great part of this act in King David we may ascribe to the affection policy and power of Batsheba the mother as that other the like act of Isaac in preferring Jacob to Esau may be attributed to Rebecca Now from this root of love in the parents shoot out the branches of their care in nursing breeding and providing for their children all which are so naturall and necessary that who neglects the performance of these duties deserves not the name of father and mother nor yet so much as to be called Syre or Damme for beasts and birds generally performe these cares for their young untill they are able to provide for themselves for did we ever know or read that an Ewe a Doe or a Sow put out her young to nurse or would suffer any other to give their young suck but themselves so long as themselves were able to do it and must we conceive that nature hath less power or works less in a woman which hath reason then in a beast or will ye have me think that reason and grace which add unto and strengthen the gifts of nature do both weaken nature in the woman and if not which indeed cannot be thought by any indued with grace or reason why then think we that nature hath given the mother breasts and fountains of milk if not to suckle her young or why think ye that a strange womans milk should be so naturally and properly good for the child as the mothers which brought it into the world and why rather consider you not that as children with the milk draw that humour which makes for the good or ill of their bodies so many by sucking cruell drunken unchast women have become such in quality and condition as their nurses were It may be instanced in Tiberius Commodus Emperors of Rome and divers others but not to be long on this subject remember that Sarah is said to have given her son suck from which act I shall draw no other inference but that of S. Peter 1 Pet 3.6 whose Daughters ye are as long as ye do well doing as she did who gave suck to her child But the mothers duty ends not in this but that she with the husband and each and both must labour with the soonest to administer the spirituall milk of the knowledge and fear of God thereby to nourish the childs soul to everlasting life and this duty lies more straightly and strongly upon the parent in as much as the soul the Temple of God is more excellent of greater esteem then the body which is but an house of clay The father and mother of Samson inquire of the Angell of the Lord saying Judge 13 12. How shall we order the child and bow shall we do unto him and that the child Samuel may be ordered aright his mother brings him very young to the house of the Lord and she lent saith the text or returned him to the Lord 〈◊〉 1 2●.8 to be his as long as he lived and what follows so good an entrance and beginning I Sam. 2.11 as in the very next chapter that the child according to his matriculation did ever after minister unto the Lord. And what the further duties of parents are in this kind S. Paul intim●●es in one place when he saith I Thes 2.11 I exhort and not only so but I charge you as a father doth his children that ye walk worthy of God who hath called you to his Kingdome and in another text he expresseth it more plainly as a precept to parents fathers bring up your children in the nu●ture and fear of the Lord. and if you will have a more especiall and particular account of the severall lessons to be taught this child you may read them set down by the wise man in his Proverbs ●●ov 4. where that whole chapter contains the full instruction of a child in the ways of godliness and the fruit thereof the parents shall find in the same book where it is said Prov. 23. ●4 The father of the righteous shall have great joy and be shall rejoyce that hath a wise son And that Parents may receive this joy Prov. 22. ● the wise man counsels them Train up or catechise the child in his youth in the way he should go Prov. 23.13 14. and with hold not correction from the child for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not die but thou shalt deliver his soul from hell Prov. 29. ●5 Whereas a child left to himself brings his mother to shame I have read of a son who on the Gallows called to speak with his father where he bit off his eare telling him that if he had done the part of a Father in training him up with due correction he had never come to that end And was not Eli to blame suffering his sons to behave themselves wickedly when all the correction he gave them was Why do ye so my sons And what was it leste if not more in Lot to drink immoderat●ly with his daughters whereby he came to uncover both their nakednesse and Jacob himself deserved to be reprehended for suffering his daughter Dinah to ramble among the strange young men whereby she caught that clap which caused so much bloud-shed the Apostle therefore saith what son is he whom the father chastneth not Heb. 12.7 8 9. yea and if the son be without chastisement then is he a bastard and no son but if chastned he gives his father reverence and the mother saith S. Paul 1 Tim. 5.10 that hath brought up her children in the faith is well reported of whereas the Prophet tells us that it became a proverb Ezek. 16.44 as is the daughter so is the mother which appeared true in David whose children after himself had committed folly and murder were found loose rebellious and murderers And yet to this admonition lest Parents grow too severe and rigid I must give this caution that Parents be not like Rehoboam to threaten or use scorpions that is whips having sharp thongs like points of thorns or stings of Serpents but ever that they remember the counsell of the Apostle Eph. 6.4 Fathers provoke not your children unto wrath lest that as himself speaks they may be discouraged Col. 3.21 correction with discretion and moderation is the chastisement required in a father to his child for that as S. Gal. 4 ● Paul speaks the heir as long as he is a childe differeth not from a servant And yet the duty of the Parent ends not here but extends it self to a further point that he provide for his child the Apostle is expresse herein when he saith

an honorable person he is laid in the grave and his glory shall not descend after him where he summes up all in the last verse saying Man that is in honour and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish v. 20. And now you have heard at what expence of travail cost trouble and danger this honour is purchast now see what the thing called honour is and whether it be worth mans love or the halfe of that which man daily proffers for it The Psalmist saith Ps 39.7 He walketh in a vain shew or as other translations have it in a vain image or shadow so that honour being properly and causally in the affection of him that gives the honour and in the breath of the people as in the trumpet that proclaims it what can this honour be in the person honoured more then a shadow of the Kings favour or an echo of the peoples voice and that this may appear so when you see the picture of a King and a begger if this of the begger though in ragges be better drawn and shadowed then that of the King though with a Crown and Scepter yet this picture we commend and preferre before that and that only for the well laying on of the colour and shadow Or if you will you may liken this worldly honour to a man in a gilded or laced coat who to many may seem a noble man yet indeed is but a lackey or a page to run on his Masters errands or to doe base services for him who thus arrayed him or compare this honour to a coloured butterfly after which ignorant boyes and silly fooles hunt and tire themselves taking many a fall and repulse in the pursuit which if they misse they lye down and as Ahab failing of Nabaoths vinyeard they cry out and grieve and if perchance they get it yet what have they in very deed more then a coloured butterfly Or it is such a picture or shadow that the same hand that gave it the honour can with the turne of the hand dash it out again and the same breath of the people that proclaimed him honourable can with another breach make him ugly and cry hang him What then shall we conclude of this honour other ways then the wise man counsels us saying ●●●l 7.4 Seek not preheminence nor the seat of honour from the King And yet as I spake in seeking riches so I must say of honour 1. So you seek not more then is justly due to you or your abilities 2. So you seek it not inordinately by wicked and corrupt means 3. So you seek it not thereby to grow proud over others and to oppresse them or thereby to heap up unjust gotten goods and to spend them on your lusts seek honour in Gods name First for this seeking that and only that and so much as is due to you 2. that seeking it by just and lawfull means 3. that it may serve for the advance of Gods glory and the relief of thee poor and oppressed seek it in Gods name and as from God Who as he is the first spring and clear fountain of true honour and so proclaimed 1. Sam. 2.20 1 Chr. 16.27 Those that honour me I will honour and again Honour and glory are from the Lord So he can and will when he seeth time and cause either immediately and by his own hand give thee honour as he did to Meses the Judges and the Kings of Judah or else mediately and by the hands of others he will cause Kings whose hearts are in his hands as Pharaoh to lay honour on Joseph and Nebuchadnezar on Daniel or rather then fail he will cause Ahasuerus to dishonour his favorite Haman and to double that honour on faithfull Mordecai and he that seeks honour by that rule and means which S. Paul hath prescribed that is by well doing Rom. 2.7 either he shall receive it here on earth or a farre better in heaven 2 Cor. 4.17 which the same Apostle calls a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory And this many holy men not only in sacred order but Nobles Princes and Kings earnestly longing after and labouring for have voluntarily and freely either renounced the taking of honourable and royall places in Church or State or have resigned them that they might intentively pursue that other honour in heaven above Yea not only these Godly and holy men prosessors of Christs lowliness have done this but even many heathens and among them as well Poets as Philosophers have neglected and abandoned the golden fetters and gilded rayes of worldly honour and in stead thereof have betaken themselves to contemplative lives studious of virtue and well doing which under God in a morall sense is the right parent of all true honour CHAP. XXXIII Pleasures and delights are not worthy of mans love NOt only the heathen generally were carried away with the sin of pleasure and luxury as Sardanapalus the founder of Tarsus where S. Paul was born upon whose tombe it was written that which S. Paul alludes unto Let us eat and drink 2 Cor. 15 22. for to morrow we shall dye but some kinde of Philosophers as the Epicures placed mans chief good in the pleasures and delights of this life Yea King Salomon seemeth to joyn and close with these when he saith I commended mirth because a man hath no better thing under-the Sun Eccles 8.15 then to eat drink and be merry s●●● that shall abide with him of his labour And to speak truth though it redound to the shame of men this sin hath had more followers then any other exceeding covetousnesse or ambition the woman in the Revelation with a cup of fornication in her hand sits upon waters by which waters are understood multitudes of people and that which some have observed of the Diamond that the hardest of them is mollified broken by the milke of the Goat a luxurious or lacivious beast holds true oft times w th the strongest and otherwise the wisest men for not only Samson in holy writ Gen. 6.2 and Hercules in profane writers but the Sons of God and King Salomon have been overtaken and carried captive herewith And no marvaile for the Heathen and their Philosophers as the Sadduces held no resurrection nor immortality of the soul and therefore hoping for no joy after this life they would be sure to have it here Yet I will not think that Salomon though his writings seem too much to savour of this leaven was wholly infected with this beastly opinion but that his speeches may be taken ironically by way of jeer and scorn as that speech of God is Behold man is become like one of us and this may appear to be so when you compare other passages of Salomons in the same book with this mentioned as if he said I will prove thee with mirth Eccles 2 1. therefore injoy pleasure but behold saith he this it vanity and vanity is sin

makes them gadders abroade For of what other use is beauty but to shew it self thereby either to inamour or insnare the beholders or to gain some windy praise of their shadow of beauty faire Dinah will be gadding and though she say it is to visit the Daughters it is to intangle and to be taken by the men of the land Again we say as by way of proverb or common speech fair and foolish or ordinarily not so wise at others which proves natures equity that if she denies beauty to the hard favoured she makes her amends with wisdome which she denyeth to the fair But indeed the fair piece so much confides in her beauty that she hath neither time wit nor will to study the beauty of the minde which is judgement and discretion And for want of wit or judgement it often falls out with these fair snouts that if they have not what they long for or desire they grow above others impatient and impetuous Rachel must have children Gen. 31. else she will dye Herodias will not be pleased no not with half a kingdome nor any thing can content her but the head of John Baptist nor will our grandame Eve be quiet till she have the forbidden fruit though it be purchast at no less rate then the death of mankind When S. Peter counsels men to honour women as the weaker vessels some have thought that counsell fit in this case to temper such proud lust full women with good words and gentle usage as the best remedy and I remember that when Christ was plain with S. Peter saying Come behind me Satan though Peter counselled his Master to be good to himself yet when Zebedees wife indiscreetly would require the precedency for her children above all the other Apostles yet Christ mildly answers her You know not what you ask and gives her a reason for his refusall adding it is not mine to give Fooles and children we see must be pleased or fooled with fair words or else their haughty beauty will make them above others mad That these kind of women are inconstant fickle and false one day loving and another hating like the Chamaeleon or the planet Mercury which are of that colour or disposition as is the plant or planet with which they are in conjunction is so ordinary a theme with Poets as other wise men that they have compared women to fortune which is said to be constant and certain in nothing but levity and inconstancy And if they be constant in any thing else it is in coveting and ill getting that they may as vainly spend it as S. James saith on their lusts and they who would more exactly know in what kind these lusts are conversant let them read the Prophet Isaiah Ch. 3.16 who in seven verses together tells us and that in the first place of their neeks bare and stretched forth with the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet their caules their round tires like the Moon their chains bracelets and musters the bonets head-bands rings changeable suits of apparell the mantles wimpels crisping pins the glasses fine linnen hoods and vailes and to these as additionalls of our later pride S. Peter hath added the plaiting of the hair 1 Pet. 3.3 wearing gold and rich apparell and hence it comes that S. Peter speaks of their eyes full of adultery 2 Pet. 2 as though all this cost and wast were to shew by their eyes what their hearts desires You may read that Asa destroyed the stately and rich temple of Belphegor 1 King ● 15 2 Chro. 2. or Priapus wherein were the most abominable uncleannesse used and not to be named by the most impudent and profligate men yet this was built by women at their cost and charges and so was that golden calse which the Isaelites adored made out of the car-rings and Jewels of the women which though they loved above all outward things of fortune yet these they would part withall to please themselves in Idolatry lust and vain delightes yea the Prophet tells us of women who at their husbands costs give gifts to their lovers and hire them that they may come in unto them Ezek. 16.33 I would I could truly say that oft-times in these womens hearts malice envy revenge murder were not lodged though the face pretends and holds forth as many an house the sign of an Angel or a fair maid the wiseman said Ecclus. 25.15 1 King 17.9 There is no wrath above that of a woman if she be an enemy the Prophet found it so who fled from Jezebel haz-arding death by famine or wild beasts rather then to fall under her implacable anger and mercilesse revenge and no lesse did John Baptist see when Herodias would rather refuse the half of Herods kingdome in Judea then not to be revenged on the head of John Baptist So immortall is their enmities when they hate as their affections are mortall and short lived where they love King Salomon said that beauty in such a woman as this Prov. 12 is like gold or pearl in a swines snout which defiles the gold and that which is precious her beauty by her routing and wallowing in the stinking dunghils of uncleannesse and filthy lusts A Legend tells us of a young child taken and kept by an Eremite in the wildernesse at last when he grew to be a young man he saw goodly fair women and asked the Eremite what they were who told the youth as to disswade him from the love of them that they were Devils yet so it was that not long after the Eremite asked the young man what pleased him best of all that ever he had seen who readily answered that those Devils which he lately saw delighted him most That women known to be little better then Devils or their Imps have thus overtaken men is not to be denyed or doubted and can any man conceive that the man who hath brains in his head or an heart in his bosome can be so mad or destitute of all grace and understanding as to set his love or affection on such a Saint-like Devill Which that they may not do let me tell them that as there hath been virtuous good women such as Sarah Rebecca the widow of Sarepta and the old poor woman that cast in the mite to the treasury Mary Magdalen Dorcas with many others in the new Testament so there have been and are with us Daughters of Sarah as S. Peter calls them and such as are not taken with the outward adorning in plaiting hair naked breasts and necks gold and silken clothes but in the inward dresse of a quiet and meek spirit and these these love in Gods name but of the other beware and as we say look before you leap for a woman if good deserves the love of all if ill of all creatures she is most dangerous and oft-times worse then the Devill Gen. 6.2 The Devill did not but the daughters of men