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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

play all hid and vnder hatches and to put out a flag of truce as Abigail did to Dauid and to say to her husband as Rachel to her father Let not my Lord be angrie Gen. 31. Like a lilie among thornes saith Salomon so is my loue among the daughters Cantic 2. Like a lilie first not like a nettle againe like a lilie among thornes as shewing patience in the sorest pouocation Sara indeede was peaceable and so were many more yet their praise was lesse in as much as they had meeke husbands for she is a monster that liueth not meekly with a meek husband but she that is yoakt with a Nabal a churle a foole as Abigail was and beares that patiently shee may say with Deborah in the fifth of the Iudges O my soule thou hast marched Valiantly And there shall more true honor grow to you by such patience than if souldierlike yee did preuaile by furie violence and the worse your husbands bee the more shall your vertue shine which in affliction shineth most like starres twinckling in the night if it be grieuous to finde matter of patience there where ye lookt for comfort and protection yet it shall haue in tho end a reward and in the Interim a singular admiration and as Mary saith of her self All generations shall call such blessed It followeth in the text She bringeth her sood from a farre As ye haue heard what she is like so now likewise what she doth too for being is knowne by doing as the tree is knowne by the fruite Alas it is a small thing yea it is nothing to bee like for copper oft times is like good coyne and the diuell is like an angel of light and if euill women were not like to many things which indeede they are not they could not deceiue so many as they doe therefore the next thing is to consider what she doth She bringeth her foode from a farre she bringeth first therefore described pacie aduer sa non auersa with her face not with her backe toward for when a ship goeth foorth euery man murmureth for that it carrieth the Merchant himselfe feareth lest it miscarrie but when it returneth there is ioy for that it bringeth And where Salomon saith she bringeth hee meaneth not that shee bringeth in with her as if a wife were to bee chosen by her dowrie for the worst wiues haue many times the best portions and the best wiues such as Ester was haue oft times none at all Indeede the manner of the world is now to seeke wiues as Judas betrayed Christ with Quantum dabis What will yee giue and if the father chance to say with Peter Aurum argentum non est mihi let her thē be as obedient as Sarah as deuout as Anna as vertuous as the Virgin Mary yetal this is nothing Quaerenda pecunia primùm est other things may mend it but monie makes the match Therefore this was not it which Salomon meant by bringing for a good wife though she bring in nothing with her yet through her wisedome and diligence great things come in by her she brings in with her hands for she putteth her hands to the wheele saith Salomon vers 19. and indeed if her worke doe not counteruaile her meate then is euery finger of her hand like a theese in the house Againe if she be too high to staine her hands with bodily labour yet she bringeth in with her eye for she ouerseeth the waies of her household saith Salomon and eateth not the bread of idlenes vers 27. Againe she bringeth in by her frugalitie for she holdeth it a point of conscience neither to fare more daintily nor to attire her self more trimly than may stand with her husbands state for if shee waste more than she bring in her victualling amount to more than her whole voiage that Merchant was ill aduised that manned her foorth and it had been good for him to be alone But as the saying is that many men marrie their executors so is it true likewise that many men marrie their executioners and as the sinne of Adam began at Eue so the ruine and confusion the extortion oppression griping of tenants yea and sacriledge of many men beginneth at the pride of the woman for now euerie Ladie of the latest edition if her husband haue bribed out but an end of an office yet she reuels playes Rex and she must haue her Coach though but to crosse from the Church-stile to the Church-porch and whereas those Israelitish women Exod. 38. when the Instruments of the Tabernacle were to bee made gaue in their deuotion their very Looking-glasses toward it yet now the forbidden apple is pulled the Church is robbed and spoiled a Patrone will scarse passe away a poore Parsonage but with a reseruation of his owne tithes and all to maintaine French Hoods Ruffes Lawnes and Looking glasses whereas of the vertuous wife it is said vers 11. of the Chapter that her husband shall have no neede of spoile But what bringeth she in She brings in foode in which word Salomon pointeth her out a houseworke as she is a housewife and the worke assigned is the feeding of the household for wee reade that Abraham fetcht a calfe from the field but Sarah had her charge to dresse it in the Tent Genef 18. and Samuel telleth the people that their King when they had him would take not their sonnes but their daughters and make them Cookes and Bakers 1. Sam. 8. and in the fifteenth verse of this Chapter it is said directly that shee giueth the portion to her household and the ordinarie to her maides But that which we reade food some translate it bread she bringeth her bread and it may well be for bread is the staffe of life and when like Merchants we haue runne round about the world to fetch in the riches of euery countrie yet all is but to clothe the backe and feed the bellie therefore hauing foode and raiment saith S. Paul let vs there with bee content 1. Tim. 6. Againe as he is not the best Merchant to the Common-wealth which bringeth in toyes and trifles but he which bringeth in such things as best may serue necessitie so neither is shee alwaies the best wife which is most adorned with trickes and qualities but she that endeuoureth most to that which is most necessarie And I thinke surely that bread is expresselie named here as to frame her whole conuersation so chiefly her mouth with sobrietie for many women are of the minde of the Israelites in Egypt Manna is no meate with them but they must haue Quatles and all must bee daintie though to the vndoing of all like Eue the wife of Adam whom of all the trees in Paradise none might serue but that which was the bane of her husband and the lesse they want the more wanton and daintie mouthed they be Now sure if Cyrus had had such a wife hee must needes haue worshipt her for he