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A73427	The merchant royall A sermon preached at White-Hall before the Kings Maiestie, at the nuptials of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay and his Lady, vpon the Twelfe day last being Ianuar. 6. 1607.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1607 (1607)	STC 25658.5; ESTC S123341	16,628	46

holy woman is noted to haue receiued from Jsaac a holy man euen earings abilments and bracelets of gold Genes 24. Therefore this it is wee teach for rules of Christian sobrietie that if a woman exceede neither decencie in fashion nor the limits of her state degree and that she bee proud of nothing wee see no reason but she may weare any thing It followeth She is like a ship But what ship a shippe of Merchants no doubt a great commendation For the kingdome of heauen is like a Merchant Mat. 13. and Merchants haue bin Princes Esay 23. and Princes are Gods Psal 82. The Merchant is of all men the most laborious for his life the most aduentrous in his labour the most peaceable vpon the sea the most profitable to the land yea the Merchant is the combination and vnion of lands and countries She is like a ship of Merchants there fore first to bee reckoned as ye see among the Laitie not like a fishermans boate not like S. Peters ship for Christ did call no she Apostles Indeed it is commendable in a woman when she is able by her wisedome to instruct her children and to giue at opportunities good counsell to her husband but when women shall take vpon them as many doe to build Churches and to chalke out discipline for the Church this is neither commēdable nor tolerable for her hands saith Salomon must handle the spindle vers 19. the spindle or the cradle but neither the Altar nor the Temple for S. John commendeth euen to the elect Ladie not so much her talking as her walking in the commandements 2. loh. 5. 6. Therfore to such preaching women it may bee answered as S. Bernard sometime answered the Image of the blessed Virgin at the great Church at Spire in Germany Bernard was no sooner come into the Church but the Image straight saluted him and bad him God morow Bernard Whereat Bernard well knowing the iugling of the Friers made answere againe out of S. Paul Oh saith he your Ladiship hath forgot your selfe It is not lawfull for women to speake in the Church Againe the Merchant is a profitable ship to teach a wife in all things to endeuour her husbands profit but many women are like water-pageants made onlie for shew like pictures in a table good for nothing but to please the eye no longer to be liked than they be looked on yea so vnprositable and dissolute in the house as no man would thinke them to bee wiues but that at meales he findes them sitting at the vpper end of the table whereas of the good wife it is said heere that she will doe her husband good and not euill vers 12. Again the Merchant is a painfull ship and she must bee a painfull wife not like a running pinnace to skoure from coast to coast from house to house as many Athenian women do who giue themselues to nothing but idly wantonly to heare and tel newes for he that hath such a wife may thinke himselfe married to an Intelligencer whereas S. Paul aduiseth such busie bodies to gouerne their owne houses 1. Tim. 5. as if intermedling with other mens did make them idle in their owne Againe being like a Merchants ship that is hee being the Merchant and shee the ship she must needs conclude she was made for him and therfore a ship of traffique to enrich him but not a pirate to spoile and rob him To spoile and rob as if a woman could robbe her husband Indeede it hath ost been held a question disputable though I in truth haue little minde to dispute it yet I heare what is said to that purpose from the mouth of Eue VVe eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden genes 3. VVe therefore she puts in her selfe and she eates of the trees indefinitely therfore of all the trees in the garden and therefore all was hers as well as Adams and the womans in right as well as the mans To which I answere that all is hers in participation to vse but Adams onely in discretion to dispose which appeareth by two reasons first because the beasts were named by Adam and not by Eue and to name is a note of dominion and authoritie as when Joseph became Pharaohs seruant and Daniel a captiue to the Chaldeans they receiued from them other names and we in our baptisme receiue our names to acknowledge that we belong in right to Christ Secondly the whole world was giuen to Adam before Eue was made so as hers was but an after-right and if she haue any tenure at all she holds in Capite she hath no title but by her husband she therefore that vsurpeth absolute authoritie in the house is no Merchant but a pirate to the Merchant Lastly she is like a Merchants ship that is a friendly fellow and peaceable companion to him but not a man of warre to contend with him For he that made her neuer built her for battaile sure she was built for peace and not for warre for Merchants weepe to thinke of warre therefore she must not for euery angrie word of her husband betake her selfe into the gunne-roome ftraight and there to thunder to charge discharge vpon him with broad words or as marriners say at sea to turne the broad side like Zipporah the wife of Moses to raile vpon him Thou art indeede a bloudie husband Exod. 4. this is no shippe of Merchants this is the Spite I thinke and therfore no marucile if many men thus shipt doe wish themselues a shore and that vntimelie death might take such a wife for a prize When Eliezer went a wooing for Isaac his masters sonne the triall by which he proposed to prooue a fit wife for Jsaac was this that if saith hee when I say to a maide Giue mee drinke she say againe Drinke and I will giue thy Camels also shee without more adoe should bee a wife for Isaac Genes 24. that is as Theodoret expoundeth it If shee were gentle not like that woman Ioh. 4. Christ asked her water and she called him Iew How is it that thou a Jew askest water of me a Samaritane For though there bee many sinnes incident to women as there bee to speake vnpartiallie as many to men yet no vice in a woman so vnwomanly as this yet if Adam had been furious the matter had been lesse for he was made of earth the mother of iron and steele the murthering mettals but the woman shee that was made of so tender mettall to become so terrible the weaker vessell so strong in passion yea to looke so faire and speake so foule what a contrarietie is this There was great reason sure to cōpare a good woman to a snaile not onely for her silence and continuall keeping of her house but also for a certaine cōmendable timorousnes of her nature which at the least shaking of the aire shrinks back into her shell and so ought the wife to do if her husband but speak to

searse it was needfull to shew not only what she is but also what she is like too for how shall he finde her that neuer saw her that neuer had her that scarse heard of her how shall he find her but by some sensible resemblance of her and therefore as Cantic s. when the Church cried her husband I charge you O daughters of Jerusalem if you finde my welbeloued c. she described him by resemblance My welbeloued is white and ruddie the chiefest of ten thousand his head is like a gold his eyes like doues his cheekes like a bed of spices his lippes like lilies his legges like pillers of marble euerie thing was like something so of the vertuous woman it is said heere that she is like a shippe and Prou. 12. she is like a crowne and in the Canticles sometime like a Rose sometime like a Lilie sometime like a garden of flowers sometime like a spring of waters In a word she is like to many things but as it is said vers 10. Pearles and precious stones are not like to her She is like a ship saith Salomon and it may well be for the world is like the Sea for so saith S. John Before the throne there was a sea of glasse Reuel 4. and that was the world transitorie and brittle as glasse tumultuous and troublesome like the sea wherein as the wind raiseth vp the waues and one waue wallowes in the necke of another so this troublesome life of ours begins in weeping goes on in sorrow and the ende of one woe is but the entrance of another O what time might a man aske to set downe all the miseries of this life the feare the care the anguish that daily accompanieth the bodie and soule of man the labours sorowes certaine the causualties vncertaine the contentions and vnquietnes of them that liue among vs sharpe assaults and oppositions of them that hate vs but chiefly the vnfaithfulnes and treacherie of them that seeme to loue vs against these stormes to saue men from drowning did God ordaine the woman as a ship vpon the sea that as Noah made an Arke and by that Arke escaped the flood so man by marrying with the woman might passe thorough all the labours of this life vnto which doubtlesse God had respect when he said It is not good for man to bee alone let Vs make him a helpe meete for him as much as to say a ship to saue him therefore he which hath no wife may seeme to be like Jonas in the sea left in the midst of a miserable world to sinke or swim or shift for himselfe but then comes a wife like a ship and wasts him home but ye must still remember that Salomon speaketh here of a good wife as vers 10. VVho shall finde a Vertuous woman For otherwise if shee which was made to comfort in euerie storme be stormie and troublesome her selfe then is she not like a Ship but like the sea and then to bee so shipt it were better with Ionas to be cast into the sea But if she be good she is like a Ship indeed and to nothing so like as to a Ship for she sits at the sterne and by discretion as by Card and Compasse shapes her course her countenance and conuersation are ballased with sobernes and grauitie her sailes are full of winde as if some wisedome from aboue had inspired or blowne vpon her shee standeth in the shrowdes and casteth out her leade and when she hath sounded she telleth as Michol did to Dauid of depth and danger 1. Sam. 19. 11. If by default she be grounded she casteth out her ankers as Rahab did and by winding Joshua 2. 21. of her selfe she gets afloate againe If she spie within her kenning any trouble to bee nigh either she makes forward if she finde her selfe able or else with Pilats Matth. 27. 19. wife she sets saile away She commands and countermaunds each man to his charge some to their tackling some to the mast some to the maine top as if she and none but she were Captaine Owner Master of the ship and yet she is not Master but the Masters mate a royall Ship she is for the King himselfe takes pleasure in her beautie Psal 4s and if shee bee a Merchantstoo then is she the Merchant royall Againe as she is like a ship considered in her self and in her proper vertues so is she likewife being cōpared with her owner too She is like a Ship indeed for first who soeuer marries ventures he ventures his estate hee ventures his peace he ventures his libertie yea many men by marriage aduenture their soules too for which cause the Israelites were forbidden to match their daughters with the Cananites lest they should turne them from God to serue other gods Deut. 7. which Salomon notwithstanding did and therefore made as some men thought a shrewd aduenture of his soule And therfore euen to preuent too much aduenture likewise is marriage compared to a ship which of all artificiall creatures is the most deliberatiue for she sailes not but by sounding lest by her vnheedines she runne her selfe aground In like maner neither man nor woman will at any time if they bee wise resolue either of mariage or of any thing in mariage but vpon the weightiest deliberation He is set out for the image of a foole that said Villam emi c. I haue bought a farme and I Luk. 14. 18. must needes goe out to see it for hee should haue seene it first and bought it after as it is said of the vertuous woman here She considereth a field and gets it vers 16. that is she thinkes of it first and makes her purchase after and when either man or woman forget this in mariage they purchase ioy enough for the day of their mariage and repentance enough for all the time after It is said of Jepthaes daughter Iudg. 11. that she went out to bewaile the daies of her virginitie but in truth many mens daughters may goe out to bewaile the daies of their mariage yea and many men too looke back to the single life as the Egyptians in the red sea looked backe to the land Exod. 14. and so they are punisht with late repentance like those foolish mariners Act. 27. who because they tooke not counsell in the hauen were forced to aduise vpon a wracke and what is the cause of this lack of forecast because they sound not first whether it bee fit to marrie or yet to marrie or whether he bee fit or she be fit fit in degree in disposition in religion and therefore as Salomon saith of vowing so say we of marrying Be not rash with thy mouth but sound first and saile after that is deliberate first and marrie after Again she is like a ship for her vniuersall vse A house is indeed to dwell in but not to trauaile in but a shippe is both to trauaile in and as it were to