A
Lasting
Iewell
,
FOR
RELIGIOVS
WOEMEN
.
PROV.
31.30.31
.
Fauour
is
deceitfull
,
and
Beautie
,
vanitie
;
but
a
woman
that
feareth
the
Lord
,
she
shall
be
praysed
;
giue
her
of
the
fruit
of
her
hands
,
and
let
her
owne
workes
prayse
her
in
the
gates
.
THis
portion
of
Scripture
,
Right
Worshipfull
,
Men
,
Fathers
,
and
Brethren
(
all
dearely
beloued
)
in
the
best
beloued
Christ
Iesus
,
is
part
of
a
Prophecie
,
see
the
first
verse
of
the
Chapter
,
and
therefore
certaine
;
In
the
whole
Chapter
,
you
haue
first
generall
directions
for
a
good
King
,
and
in
him
,
for
any
that
truely
feare
God
,
and
desire
to
order
their
life
according
to
his
word
;
and
they
are
especially
three
,
conteined
in
the
nine
first
verses
:
First
to
deale
iustly
with
euery
one
;
Giue
vnto
God
the
things
that
are
Gods
;
honour
,
glory
,
with
vniuersall
obedience
;
giue
vnto
Caesar
,
and
with
him
to
euery
other
man
,
what
belongs
vnto
them
,
Secondly
to
bee
temperate
in
the
vse
of
wine
,
alie
.
Metamorphosis
,
thinkes
himselfe
able
to
wage
warre
with
nature
,
procures
such
a
habit
in
it
,
as
will
not
be
remooued
without
great
difficulty
,
forgets
God
,
his
seruice
,
himselfe
,
wife
,
Children
,
soule
and
all
:
let
all
starue
for
bread
,
soe
hee
may
haue
drinke
enough
;
makes
himselfe
vnseruiceable
,
and
consequently
a
slaggering
burthen
,
both
to
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
layeth
himselfe
nakedly
open
to
the
fierce
wrath
of
God
Almightie
,
to
all
the
danger
and
disgrace
can
possibly
bee
thought
on
:
as
by
many
wofull
examples
we
haue
seene
in
euery
age
:
and
finally
looseth
all
his
friends
,
good
name
,
estate
,
health
,
and
saluation
,
without
speedy
,
and
speciall
repentance
:
read
at
your
leasure
,
1.
Sam.
25.37
,
38.
Prou.
33.19.20
,
21
,
29.
Prou.
30.31
,
32
,
33.
Esay
5.22
.
1.
Cor.
6.10
.
Gal.
5
21.
then
consider
how
vile
a
vice
drunkennesse
is
,
and
how
hard
to
be
left
.
Thirdly
,
to
be
resolute
in
resisting
all
the
deceitfull
baytes
of
feminine
beauty
;
vnruly
appetite
,
would
betray
our
strength
,
and
make
vs
yeeld
at
the
sight
of
euery
weake
woman
;
did
we
not
heare
another
voyce
from
heauen
,
Giue
not
your
strength
to
woemen
,
nor
your
wayes
to
that
which
destroyeth
Kings
.
It
is
reported
that
Alexander
would
not
looke
on
the
wife
of
Darius
,
least
hee
that
had
ouercome
many
men
should
be
shamefully
vanquished
by
one
woeman
;
one
wanton
eye
may
let
in
more
ruines
to
the
soule
,
then
two
hands
can
thrust
out
:
gaze
not
on
beautie
,
it
is
vanitie
;
listen
not
to
the
voice
of
fauour
,
it
is
deceitfull
;
let
not
your
hearts
be
insnared
with
such
knowne
traps
;
the
gaine
of
the
flesh
,
is
in
this
sense
the
losse
of
the
soule
:
reade
what
is
written
:
Secondly
,
wee
haue
in
this
Chapter
an
exact
description
,
and
Commendation
of
a
vertuous
woeman
,
beginning
at
the
tenth
verse
:
which
I
would
commend
to
all
that
are
,
or
desire
to
be
good
wiues
:
that
you
would
peruse
it
once
a
weeke
;
not
omitting
set
Tymes
,
for
reading
other
parts
of
holy
writ
:
my
Text
is
the
conclusion
of
it
,
wherein
you
may
obserue
with
me
,
1.
The
fading
Condition
of
outward
endowments
comprised
in
,
-
Fauour
is
deceitfull
,
and
-
Beautie
vanitie
.
2.
The
lasting
worth
and
dignity
of
inward
grace
,
contained
in
,
-
But
a
Woman
that
feareth
the
Lord
shee
shall
bee
praised
.
3.
The
dutie
of
all
men
,
towards
vertuous
women
,
Exprest
in
the
last
words
,
-
Giue
her
the
fruite
of
her
hands
,
&c.
Wherein
I
shall
briefly
touch
these
particulars
:
-
1.
Who
they
are
must
be
praised
,
-
Woemen
.
-
2.
For
what
?
-
The
feare
of
the
Lord
.
-
3.
How
they
must
be
praised
.
-
By
the
fruit
of
their
hands
,
and
their
owne
worthes
.
-
4.
By
whom
?
-
By
their
Children
,
Husbands
,
Neighbours
;
all
are
enioined
to
giue
good
woemen
their
due
praise
.
Of
all
which
in
their
order
,
and
first
by
way
of
Explication
.
The
censure
of
Nature
and
naturall
endowments
,
-
Fauour
is
deceitfull
.
Fauour
,
may
be
taken
2.
wayes
:
first
,
for
inward
affection
,
which
is
a
motion
of
the
mind
,
stirred
vp
by
the
apprehension
of
some
excellencie
in
the
partie
fauoured
,
as
when
wee
say
this
,
or
that
great
man
fauours
vs
,
smiles
vpon
vs
,
loues
vs
entirely
:
then
this
fauour
what
more
deceitfull
?
who
can
tell
when
hee
hath
it
?
or
discouer
a
false
heart
vnder
a
flattering
forehead
?
did
not
Cain
commune
with
his
brother
,
whom
he
meant
to
kill
?
was
not
Ioabs
speech
peaceable
,
when
his
purpose
was
to
smite
Abner
?
how
sweet
were
his
words
to
innocent
Amasa
?
Art
thou
in
health
my
Brother
?
when
a
sword
was
in
his
hand
to
free
him
from
all
diseases
?
Absalon
inuites
his
brother
Ammon
,
to
feast
with
him
,
but
the
guest
must
be
slaughtered
by
him
:
Iudas
cries
haile
Master
,
when
he
came
to
betray
the
sonne
of
man
with
a
kisse
:
What
apish
Complements
,
bowing
,
becking
,
scraping
,
the
foolish
froth
of
feigned
loue
,
doe
we
behold
amongst
men
?
while
there
is
no
correspondencie
betweene
the
heart
and
the
hand
?
what
promises
haue
wee
had
?
what
protestations
haue
wee
heard
?
which
haue
proued
abortiues
,
liuing
and
dying
in
the
same
moment
:
who
relyes
thereon
in
these
daies
,
builds
on
sandy
ground
.
Beleeue
them
that
speake
out
of
experience
;
trust
not
fauour
,
it
is
deceitfull
:
so
true
is
that
of
the
Psalmist
,
mens
words
may
be
smoother
then
oyle
,
when
there
is
no
truth
in
the
inward
parts
:
Or
suppose
one
to
haue
it
;
who
can
tell
how
long
he
shall
enioy
it
?
health
,
and
sicknesse
,
life
and
death
,
sun-shine
and
stormes
,
day
and
night
change
not
so
often
,
as
this
deceitfull
fauour
;
to
day
wee
may
heare
Iacobs
voice
,
to
morrow
feele
Esaus
hands
;
the
least
error
,
rumor
,
or
conceit
of
one
,
crushes
this
affection
:
rich
words
with
an
ayery
issue
,
proclaimes
the
Parents
folly
.
This
fauour
of
wicked
men
and
women
,
is
nothing
worth
:
like
smoake
to
the
eyes
;
or
the
reede
of
Egypt
to
the
hand
:
what
extremity
of
folly
driues
worldly
Polititians
then
,
or
boone
companions
and
good
fellowes
(
as
they
are
tearmed
)
to
preferre
it
before
the
fauour
of
God
,
to
seeke
more
greedily
for
it
then
reconciliation
with
God
in
the
blood
of
Christ
?
The
fauour
of
great
men
may
be
sought
,
preserued
,
good
vse
made
of
it
,
yet
one
dram
of
Gods
fauour
in
Christ
is
more
worth
then
the
fauour
of
all
the
Princes
in
the
World
.
Let
mee
be
Gods
fauorite
,
I
care
not
whether
the
World
smile
or
frowne
;
let
others
pursue
this
deceitfull
fauour
;
but
Lord
,
doe
thou
lift
vp
the
light
of
thy
countenance
vpon
vs
.
Secondly
,
fauour
may
be
taken
for
outward
proportion
,
in
bodie
,
and
face
;
ioyned
with
a
iustly
tempered
complexion
;
when
all
the
humours
manifest
an
equall
power
,
without
any
selfe-ruining
desire
of
dominion
:
this
is
the
fauour
here
meant
,
and
is
deceitfull
two
wayes
.
First
actiuely
,
when
it
deceiues
others
,
and
that
either
in
regard
of
iudgement
,
when
men
thinke
woemen
to
be
such
as
they
seeme
to
be
,
perfect
for
parts
,
beautifull
,
healthie
,
sober
,
chaste
,
temperate
;
there
being
indeede
and
truth
not
any
one
,
but
the
shadow
of
these
qualities
in
them
:
or
in
regard
of
loue
,
and
liking
,
when
men
suffer
themselues
to
bee
ensnared
with
the
very
outward
fauour
;
making
Sense
the
guide
vnto
reason
,
and
beautie
the
ground
of
their
affection
:
Hamor
,
Sampson
with
Dalilah
;
Secondly
,
passiuely
,
deceiuing
it selfe
;
promising
constancie
,
when
nothing
is
more
fraile
;
see
if
it
euer
could
indure
the
shining
of
the
Sun
,
blowing
of
the
wind
,
falling
of
the
raine
,
the
least
inward
griefe
;
two
or
three
fits
of
an
Ague
,
the
small
pocks
,
bearing
of
Children
,
consume
and
leaue
it
no
place
;
this
day
it
lookes
as
if
it
would
bee
alwayes
soe
;
to
morrow
,
as
if
it
had
neuer
beene
so
;
and
is
it
not
deceitfull
?
a
meanes
it
is
to
coozen
many
of
the
foode
of
life
.
They
cannot
goe
to
Church
in
Summer
for
heate
,
nor
in
winter
for
cold
,
it
will
spoile
their
complexion
;
and
is
it
not
deceitfull
?
what
meane
the
multitude
of
vailes
and
maskes
,
the
closer
you
keepe
it
,
the
lesser
while
it
will
last
,
and
is
it
not
deceitfull
?
Beautie
is
vanitie
:
here
wee
haue
a
more
liuely
expression
of
the
former
:
I
know
no
great
difference
betweene
fauour
and
beauty
:
in
our
ordinary
speech
they
are
often
put
one
for
another
:
except
this
fauour
is
refer'd
to
proportion
,
beautie
to
complexion
:
though
in
strictnesse
of
speech
,
beautie
being
something
arising
from
both
.
Beautie
is
twofold
.
1.
Inward
of
the
heart
and
mind
mentioned
.
Psal.
29.2
.
Rachel
,
Sarah
,
Rebecka
,
Vaisthi
,
Ioseph
,
Dauid
,
Abigail
,
Absalon
,
Bathsheba
with
many
others
:
giuen
to
good
ones
,
lest
it
should
be
thought
euill
:
giuen
to
the
wicked
,
lest
it
should
be
esteem'd
more
then
is
meete
:
yet
in
both
it
is
truely
said
to
be
vanitie
;
vnprofitable
and
soone
fading
,
like
some
pleasant
flower
,
that
stoopes
to
the
first
sharpe
blast
:
Beautie
and
vanitie
may
be
compared
to
Zacheries
two
staues
,
one
is
no
sooner
broken
,
The
prayse
of
grace
and
gracious
Actions
.
But
a
woman
that
feareth
the
Lord
.
What
woman
soeuer
,
young
or
old
,
maid
or
wife
,
that
feares
the
Lord
:
not
with
a
slauish
feare
,
that
may
be
in
Diuels
and
Reprobates
which
is
to
feare
with
hatred
;
nor
with
a
seruile
feare
onely
,
A
good
woeman
was
neuer
barren
;
shee
cannot
but
bee
a
mother
of
many
Children
,
in
one
sense
or
other
:
her
comforts
and
lessons
,
workes
of
pietie
and
charity
,
her
speech
and
behauiour
:
what
are
they
all
but
so
many
issues
of
grace
?
Praised
shall
she
be
of
God
,
his
word
and
seruants
,
had
in
honour
of
all
that
are
round
about
her
(
if
men
were
silent
,
the
stones
would
cry
out
)
and
her
good
name
shall
remaine
for
euer
.
Least
a
good
action
should
miscarry
in
the
manner
,
the
holy
Ghost
in
the
last
clause
of
this
booke
and
Chapter
describes
how
she
must
be
praised
:
By
the
fruit
of
her
hands
,
by
her
owne
workes
:
The
hands
of
a
gracious
woman
walke
faster
then
her
tongue
,
the
tongue
is
not
idle
,
nor
ill
employed
;
exercised
often
in
the
prayses
of
her
God
:
giue
her
the
reward
of
her
hands
,
not
withholding
the
fruit
of
her
lips
.
The
fruit
of
the
hands
,
growes
on
three
branches
;
in
feruent
praying
;
diligent
working
:
charitable
giuing
:
the
first
lookes
vnto
God
;
the
second
to
her
house
and
familie
;
the
last
to
the
poore
and
needy
:
her
owne
workes
they
are
called
,
because
done
by
her selfe
;
enabled
with
Gods
grace
,
during
life
.
Let
others
build
Trophes
to
preserue
their
memory
,
after
death
:
a
godly
woman
erects
alasting
monument
with
her
own
hands
:
whence
we
may
note
by
the
way
;
first
,
that
it
is
one
propertie
of
the
feare
of
God
to
make
woemen
fruitfull
in
euery
good
,
both
of
nature
and
grace
;
the
want
of
this
makes
barren
in
each
degree
.
Secondly
,
that
works
of
charity
,
truely
praise-worthie
,
should
be
done
during
life
;
let
her
owne
works
praise
her
;
not
the
works
of
others
,
though
done
by
her
appointment
.
Thirdly
,
to
detaine
the
iust
reward
of
praise
from
such
good
woemen
,
is
iniustice
:
giue
them
the
fruit
of
their
hands
:
let
such
wiues
freely
inioy
the
benefit
of
their
owne
labour
;
let
them
sit
vnder
the
vines
of
their
owne
planting
,
and
weare
the
cloath
of
their
owne
making
;
Let
husbands
neither
restraine
,
nor
suspect
such
as
feare
God
;
either
they
doe
not
euill
,
or
would
not
doe
it
;
the
will
must
be
accepted
for
the
deede
:
let
their
large
prouision
and
ample
portion
,
publish
their
iust
demerit
in
all
assemblies
;
it
is
the
greatest
pitie
and
iniustice
that
men
should
suffer
vertuous
woemen
to
want
competent
maintenance
;
incouragement
,
by
due
praise
,
and
commendation
;
he
may
be
punisht
with
a
bad
wife
,
that
deales
vnkindly
with
a
good
one
.
Conclusions
,
or
obseruations
doctrinall
hence
naturally
arising
for
our
instruction
are
three
.
First
that
fauour
and
beauty
,
as
formerly
described
,
are
vanitie
;
a
seemely
proportion
with
the
best
complection
,
is
but
a
sandy
foundation
whereon
to
build
our
affection
;
whether
we
consider
desire
,
or
praise
;
Beautie
alone
is
like
a
pleasant
baite
with
a
poysoned
hooke
,
to
catch
and
gall
vs
,
not
to
feed
and
comfort
vs
;
neither
for
this
can
any
merit
praise
:
For
first
it
is
the
worke
and
gift
of
God
;
not
to
vs
,
but
to
him
especially
appertains
the
praise
.
Secondly
,
it
is
a
thing
common
to
good
and
bad
:
the
worst
women
haue
often
the
greatest
share
:
most
beautie
,
least
grace
;
they
dote
so
much
of
what
they
haue
,
as
that
they
neuer
thinke
of
what
they
want
;
as
also
with
reasonable
and
vnreasonable
Creatures
:
how
farre
doe
some
flowers
exceed
the
fairest
face
.
Thirdly
,
beautie
alone
is
very
vnseemely
;
like
a
gold
ring
in
a
Swines
snout
,
so
(
saith
Salomon
)
is
a
faire
woeman
without
discretion
.
Fourthly
,
it
is
deceitfull
,
both
actiuely
,
and
passiuely
:
besides
,
beautie
and
fauour
in
their
best
apparell
;
are
but
shadowes
of
Good
comparatiuely
;
as
may
be
gathered
from
diuers
passages
of
the
Preacher
;
and
therefore
none
should
rely
on
them
,
whether
owners
,
or
beholders
:
First
,
because
they
are
not
lasting
,
as
hath
beene
noted
in
the
exposition
;
that
cannot
make
man
happie
,
which
is
capable
of
not-being
:
secondly
,
they
can
giue
no
satisfying
content
,
while
they
doe
last
:
beautie
and
fauour
fill
not
the
heart
,
though
obtained
:
the
eye
is
not
satisfied
with
seeing
;
The
vse
of
this
may
serue
for
instructiue
information
to
men
and
woemen
.
First
,
let
faire
woemen
learne
hence
to
esteeme
so
of
their
beautie
;
bee
not
mistaken
in
your
face
;
if
you
haue
nothing
better
,
you
are
but
as
painted
Sepulchres
;
your
outward
structure
couers
a
masse
of
foule
Corruption
:
a
flower
may
be
wondrous
faire
to
looke
vpon
,
yet
wee
say
it
is
but
a
flower
,
and
accordingly
to
bee
esteemed
:
so
beautie
,
though
iustly
admired
,
expressing
in
some
part
the
excellence
of
the
workeman
;
yet
Salomon
tels
vs
,
it
is
but
vanitie
,
compared
to
the
beauty
of
the
inner
man
:
nay
,
what
is
more
vgly
then
a
faire
face
,
with
a
foule
,
proud
,
lustful
heart
?
the
fairer
any
are
,
the
more
carefull
should
they
be
;
not
to
offend
by
it
,
themselues
or
others
,
and
the
more
thankfull
for
it
,
many
good
things
of
nature
require
more
seruice
to
glorifie
the
author
thereof
:
beauty
with
grace
,
a
faire
face
with
an
humble
holy
heart
,
are
Iewels
of
inestimable
worth
.
Did
faire
woemen
know
how
highly
outward
beauty
is
set
forth
by
the
presence
of
inward
grace
,
Secondly
,
men
may
hence
learne
wisedome
in
two
respects
.
First
to
recall
this
truth
into
minde
,
when
they
are
tempted
with
beautie
;
shall
we
trust
what
is
knowne
to
bee
deceitfull
?
Secondly
,
that
they
doe
not
so
much
delight
in
,
and
admire
it
,
as
to
make
it
the
chiefest
motiue
,
or
ground
worke
of
their
loue
and
liking
,
hee
is
accounted
in
the
iudgement
of
wisedome
a
foolish
man
that
builds
on
a
sandie
foundation
;
Secondly
,
this
censures
and
condemnes
the
practice
of
many
amongst
vs
,
both
men
and
woemen
;
woemen
,
who
hauing
and
seeking
nothing
else
but
fauour
and
beautie
,
bestow
all
,
or
most
part
of
their
time
about
it
,
curling
and
cutting
the
haire
,
painting
,
pinning
,
lacing
,
dressing
,
adorning
,
&c.
it
argues
great
lightnesse
,
and
want
of
the
loue
of
grace
,
to
toyle
so
about
a
knowne
vanitie
:
how
light
then
many
of
our
English
Dames
are
,
their
practice
shewes
,
looking
more
on
the
Glasse
then
on
the
Bible
:
being
more
carefull
of
their
faces
,
then
their
hearts
:
pitty
it
is
faire
Creatures
should
so
befoole
themselues
,
onely
with
a
meere
out-side
of
good
.
Men
that
are
carried
away
most
with
beauty
,
let
them
learne
to
see
,
and
acknowledge
their
youthfull
error
,
as
they
desire
to
be
saued
:
are
not
you
one
cause
of
their
misery
?
offences
may
come
;
but
woe
to
them
by
whom
they
come
.
I
see
not
how
it
can
be
auoyded
:
for
,
did
not
woemen
by
experience
see
,
men
preferring
outward
endowments
to
inward
graces
,
we
should
quickly
finde
a
generall
change
;
woemen
would
striue
to
be
good
,
did
they
see
men
affect
goodnesse
:
it
is
ordinary
policie
to
vse
that
baite
which
the
fish
most
delight
to
play
with
:
in
this
worst
age
of
ours
,
what
is
most
looked
after
in
woemen
but
beautie
,
riches
,
or
both
?
are
they
rich
,
beautifull
,
of
rich
parentage
;
is
there
any
hope
of
preferment
by
them
in
the
world
?
(
Religion
the
chiefest
linke
between
man
and
wife
)
grace
and
a
vertuous
education
is
little
respected
:
this
makes
woemen
admire
the
one
,
as
their
chiefest
good
,
neglect
the
other
,
as
little
worth
:
Let
such
men
know
,
a
day
will
come
,
when
they
shall
confesse
,
and
bewayle
this
pleasing
and
selfe-deceiuing
error
;
if
they
bee
not
arraigned
as
guiltie
in
part
of
Female
folly
.
Thirdly
,
here
is
comfort
for
such
as
settle
their
affection
on
better
ground
,
vpon
the
image
of
Christ
,
and
the
graces
of
the
spirit
,
shining
in
the
partie
affected
:
this
Foundation
is
rockie
,
durable
:
the
proportion
will
neuer
change
,
nor
the
beautie
decay
,
the
gates
of
hell
shall
neuer
preuaile
against
it
;
by
vse
it
increases
,
and
out-liues
the
nipping
blasts
of
all-consuming
time
:
fauour
is
deceitfull
,
and
beautie
is
vanitie
:
why
should
any
bee
proud
that
haue
it
,
or
grieue
that
want
it
?
a
wrinckled
forehead
,
swarthy
complexion
,
a
person
in
bodie
or
in
face
any
wayes
deformed
;
with
a
vertuous
,
religious
mind
,
appeares
more
beautifull
to
the
eye
of
iudgement
,
then
the
fairest
Creature
in
the
world
:
Not
so
,
since
Eue
assented
to
the
craftie
Serpent
,
none
of
her
posterity
appeare
beautifull
;
but
such
as
are
dipt
in
the
blood
of
Christ
,
and
cloathed
with
his
righteousnesse
:
For
the
censure
of
some
scornefully
foolish
in
bewraying
their
owne
ignorance
;
passe
it
ouer
,
it
cannot
harme
you
;
a
good
soule
shall
not
be
denyed
entrance
into
heauen
for
want
of
beautie
.
Let
me
therefore
exhort
you
(
my
dearely
beloued
in
the
Lord
,
men
and
woemen
)
affect
not
fauour
,
it
is
deceitfull
;
dote
not
on
beautie
,
it
is
vanitie
.
To
Professors
of
Christs
Gospell
I
speake
;
fashion
not
your selues
to
this
world
,
mispend
not
precious
time
in
pampring
foode
for
wormes
;
the
greatest
gallant
,
and
fairest
face
,
shall
stoope
ere
long
to
lodge
in
clay
:
beleeue
it
now
,
or
else
you
will
one
day
find
it
so
,
when
it
is
too
late
:
build
not
your
affection
on
such
a
sandie
foundation
,
the
sturdie
windes
will
ruinate
whatsoeuer
you
erect
thereon
:
Salomon
spake
out
of
experience
deare
bought
;
you
haue
wisedome
offered
you
at
a
cheape
rate
,
and
it
may
be
as
good
as
that
which
is
further
fetcht
;
contemne
,
nor
flight
it
not
;
Consider
what
is
truth
,
and
the
Lord
blesse
it
vnto
you
.
Secondly
,
in
that
the
feare
of
the
Lord
is
here
opposed
to
fauour
and
beautie
,
and
by
opposition
preferd
;
we
learne
,
that
the
feare
of
the
Lord
with
good
workes
,
are
woemens
chiefest
Iewels
,
things
of
greatest
worth
.
I
ioyne
these
two
,
because
they
cannot
well
be
seperated
;
no
filiall
feare
of
God
without
good
workes
;
no
good
workes
without
the
feare
of
the
Lord
:
these
are
wo●mens
chiefest
Iewels
,
and
of
greatest
worth
;
in
regard
they
last
longest
,
and
become
them
best
,
yeelding
certaine
comfort
,
with
a
free
reward
:
that
soule
which
once
feeles
the
benefit
,
will
not
part
with
it
for
all
the
world
.
The
Scripture
is
euery
where
full
to
this
purpose
;
the
feare
of
the
Lord
is
excellent
,
and
endures
for
euer
;
the
feare
of
the
Lord
is
a
treasure
;
a
gracious
woman
retaines
true
honour
,
better
is
a
little
with
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
then
great
treasure
:
better
is
a
little
beautie
with
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
nay
fairer
is
the
foulest
face
,
with
inward
grace
,
then
Helens
beautie
,
with
a
proud
,
wanton
luxurious
mind
:
Let
common
woemen
gull
themselues
and
others
,
with
paynted
shewes
,
euery
vertuous
matron
knowes
good
workes
to
be
a
better
ornament
then
cut
or
plaited
haire
,
pearles
,
gold
,
or
costly
array
:
many
simple
ones
,
either
know
not
,
or
beleeue
not
this
,
obserue
them
strutting
with
their
spangled
foreheads
,
as
peacocks
vse
to
doe
with
their
tailes
,
haue
nothing
to
glory
in
but
what
is
borrowed
from
the
Creature
,
wanting
the
chiefest
Iewell
,
all
the
rest
are
as
filthy
rags
.
This
truth
will
further
appeare
vnto
vs
,
if
we
consider
first
that
which
the
Scripture
speakes
of
,
the
feare
of
the
Lord
in
those
seuerall
places
cited
,
Thirdly
,
The
continuance
of
this
Iewell
,
it
endures
for
euer
,
hauing
the
promise
of
both
Kingdomes
,
this
of
grace
the
other
of
glory
:
when
fauour
deceiues
,
and
beauty
failes
,
the
feare
of
the
Lord
endures
without
change
;
when
all
other
pleasures
leaue
a
dampe
behind
,
the
feare
of
the
Lord
onely
makes
rich
,
and
hee
addes
no
sorrow
with
it
.
Fourthly
,
the
desire
of
the
best
woemen
in
euery
age
,
seeking
to
attaine
it
,
rather
then
beautie
,
riches
,
foode
,
or
rayment
;
whose
actions
,
are
for
your
imitation
;
let
others
pin
,
plait
,
and
paint
,
spend
you
these
precious
howers
in
prayer
:
Let
Martha
bee
troubled
with
many
things
,
take
you
Maries
choice
,
it
will
bring
Marthaes
gaine
without
her
trouble
.
Like
as
Salomon
asking
wisedome
,
obtained
also
honour
,
riches
,
long
life
;
so
fals
it
out
with
those
that
feare
the
Lord
,
it
brings
with
it
all
other
necessaries
:
fauour
and
beautie
may
bee
without
the
feare
of
God
:
the
feare
of
God
not
without
them
:
and
as
it
was
a
chiefe
part
of
wisedome
in
Salomon
to
desire
wisedome
:
so
is
it
a
speciall
part
of
holy
policie
in
woemen
to
chuse
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
In
the
application
of
this
doctrine
wee
find
matter
first
to
informe
woemen
,
what
they
should
most
earnestly
seeke
after
:
if
they
would
be
good
wiues
,
and
bring
a
lasting
portion
with
them
to
their
husbands
,
The
feare
of
the
Lord
.
They
are
helpefull
,
hopefull
,
euery
way
beautifull
;
I
want
Epithetes
to
expresse
their
excellency
;
a
woman
with
this
Iewell
,
is
one
of
the
greatest
outward
blessings
to
man
on
earth
;
prouided
it
hang
not
in
the
tounge
,
nor
at
the
eare
onely
,
but
in
the
heart
.
The
Question
onely
here
will
be
;
how
this
Iewell
may
be
knowne
?
Answere
.
By
these
,
or
some
of
these
three
things
.
First
,
by
antecedents
,
or
things
going
before
:
First
,
knowledge
of
God
,
his
will
,
presence
,
iustice
,
mercie
;
of
our selues
,
what
we
haue
,
wee
should
not
haue
,
what
we
want
,
that
we
should
haue
.
Secondly
,
sorrow
of
heart
,
for
what
we
perceiue
amisse
.
Thirdly
,
desire
of
amendment
,
which
we
must
feele
before
we
can
attaine
it
.
Fourthly
,
enquirie
after
,
and
diligently
vse
the
meanes
,
hearing
,
and
reading
of
the
word
of
God
,
with
prayer
and
meditation
.
Secondly
by
some
properties
;
which
are
,
first
to
inlighten
the
vnderstanding
in
some
measure
according
to
the
capabilitie
of
the
subiect
.
Secondly
,
to
purifie
the
heart
,
not
from
the
being
,
but
from
the
raigne
of
sinne
.
Thirdly
,
to
heate
,
and
enkindle
zeale
in
the
affection
,
for
Gods
glory
.
Fourthly
,
to
direct
in
the
right
way
to
heauen
;
like
as
the
Load-stone
turnes
the
singer
towards
the
North
;
soe
this
feare
of
God
makes
women
still
looke
vnto
Christ
,
that
they
may
safely
saile
,
betweene
the
dangerous
rockes
,
of
doubtfull
,
and
vnlawfull
things
.
Thirdly
,
by
some
Consequents
as
first
to
hate
euery
sinne
,
and
foule
fashion
of
the
world
,
so
soone
as
knowne
.
Secondly
,
to
delight
in
the
practice
of
sincere
obedience
:
without
partialitie
,
hypocrisie
,
formalitie
,
or
temporizing
neuteralitie
:
to
be
more
in
deedes
then
words
;
to
doe
more
at
home
,
then
abroade
.
Thirdly
,
to
make
conscience
of
both
these
,
to
eschew
euill
,
and
doe
good
in
obedience
vnto
God
.
2.
Question
.
But
how
may
this
Iewell
bee
attained
?
Answere
.
First
,
by
meditation
vpon
the
former
particulars
:
secondly
,
by
practice
;
and
that
is
first
remotion
of
all
lets
and
hinderances
,
with
the
wise
Merchant
,
we
must
part
with
all
wee
haue
to
buy
this
pearle
.
Secondly
resolution
,
to
doe
what
euer
the
Lord
commands
vs
in
his
word
,
both
for
time
and
manner
,
without
distinction
,
pretence
,
or
exception
.
Secondly
,
to
teach
men
what
they
should
most
affect
and
praise
in
woemen
;
not
riches
or
beautie
,
though
both
the
gifts
of
God
:
Did
you
know
the
worth
of
a
vertuous
wife
,
her
fidelity
,
sedulitie
,
sobrietie
,
humilitie
,
patience
,
sweet
carriage
and
behauiour
,
you
would
seeke
her
more
greedily
then
any
hungry
Spaniard
doth
the
Indian
gold
,
or
any
amorous
wanton
,
his
deceitfull
minion
:
know
this
further
,
woemen
would
not
offend
so
much
about
their
faces
,
did
not
men
offend
first
in
excessiue
praises
of
their
fading
beauty
.
Thirdly
,
to
stirre
vp
the
parents
care
,
by
their
godly
endeauour
,
to
leaue
this
portion
to
euery
one
of
their
Daughters
:
you
would
haue
your
children
doe
things
praise-worthy
,
then
giue
them
good
example
,
teach
them
the
feare
of
the
Lord
;
and
they
shall
bee
praised
:
God
hath
spoken
:
the
present
sight
of
a
vertuous
face
is
more
delightfull
,
then
gold
or
laud
;
the
one
as
vncertaine
respects
the
body
only
:
the
other
as
a
lasting
Iewell
;
regardes
both
body
,
and
soule
.
But
alas
,
the
greatest
care
in
many
parents
is
,
to
sowe
in
their
Children
the
seedes
of
pride
,
and
idlenes
,
by
keeping
them
in
the
fashion
for
their
haire
,
face
,
attire
,
gesture
,
complement
,
&c.
neglecting
the
old
fashion
,
after
which
God
made
them
;
to
set
them
vp
on
high
,
the
churlish
thistles
daughter
,
must
marry
with
the
Cedars
sonne
,
only
for
his
height
;
plodding
to
leaue
them
rich
,
though
gracelesse
:
a
greater
fault
there
is
in
some
other
parents
,
whose
indeauour
is
to
dishearten
and
hinder
their
forward
children
in
good
courses
;
like
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
will
neither
enter
heauen
,
nor
suffer
those
that
would
.
I
aduise
children
to
honour
their
parents
,
because
of
our
precept
,
but
God
more
,
because
of
many
,
parents
are
deare
,
Christ
dearer
;
their
loue
precious
,
his
inestimable
,
the
parents
care
may
adorne
the
body
,
this
feare
of
the
Lord
is
the
soules
ornament
.
Secondly
,
this
serues
to
vnuaile
the
deformed
pouertie
of
such
women
as
want
this
Iewell
;
though
faire
,
yet
faithlesse
;
and
may
be
compared
to
an
Irish
bogge
or
quagmire
,
which
appeares
greene
and
solid
,
till
it
be
tried
;
then
opens
her
mouth
to
deuoure
the
passenger
:
such
are
faire
rich
women
without
grace
;
to
looke
vnto
they
are
like
a
bed
of
downe
;
to
touch
,
like
a
bundle
of
the
sharpest
thornes
:
whosoeuer
deales
with
them
,
had
better
grapple
with
a
nest
of
snakes
:
their
ornaments
are
all
outward
,
and
such
as
are
indeede
,
the
disgrace
of
Christianitie
,
borrowing
,
poudering
,
frizeling
,
and
cutting
of
their
haire
;
naked
breasts
,
ear-rings
,
nose-iewels
,
with
strange
fantasticke
fashions
:
yet
what
a
gay
show
doe
such
make
;
esteeming
themselues
no
meane
persons
,
(
no
more
they
are
not
;
for
they
are
alwaies
in
extreames
)
how
haughtie
are
they
,
walking
with
stretched-forth
neckes
,
wanton
eyes
,
tripping
nicely
,
as
they
goe
?
how
are
they
admired
by
simple
ones
,
that
know
them
not
?
when
as
there
is
nothing
in
them
praise-worthy
;
it
must
needs
bee
folly
,
fl●ttery
,
or
both
to
commend
them
:
if
wee
giue
them
the
fruit
of
their
hands
,
and
let
their
owne
workes
speake
for
them
,
what
a
haruest
must
they
reape
?
will
they
not
blush
to
heare
and
see
pride
,
idlenesse
,
lust
,
drunkennesse
,
laid
before
them
as
their
owne
?
Oh
,
consider
this
,
yee
back-sliding
proud
wanton
,
wine-bibbing
,
loud-speaking
daughters
;
the
fruit
of
your
hand
shall
be
giuen
you
,
when
nothing
can
be
spoken
of
you
but
will
dispraise
you
here
,
and
after
death
;
your
name
and
memory
shall
rott
away
:
it
is
not
a
bare
out-side
will
praise
you
,
nor
painting
that
can
preserue
you
;
your
muffes
,
ruffes
,
laces
,
lawnes
,
perfumes
,
rings
,
bracelets
,
with
the
rest
of
that
deceitfull
burthen
,
(
a
compleatly
fashionable
woman
in
our
age
,
beares
a
little
packe
about
her
)
laid
aside
,
what
is
left
,
but
a
barren
carcasse
,
that
neuer
did
,
nor
is
like
to
receiue
any
good
without
speedy
repentance
and
reformation
.
Let
no
vertuous
Matrons
,
be
discouraged
hereby
,
nothing
is
spoken
against
;
yea
,
I
haue
comfort
for
them
in
store
:
Feare
not
yee
;
I
know
you
feare
and
seeke
the
Lord
Iesus
:
and
what
can
daunt
you
?
should
pouertie
?
Christ
is
your
riches
:
sicknesse
?
Christ
is
your
health
;
contempt
in
this
world
?
honoured
you
are
,
and
shall
be
in
heauen
,
want
of
a
good
complexion
?
alas
,
it
is
nothing
;
and
it
may
be
,
it
is
in
mercy
those
that
haue
it
,
sinne
more
about
it
,
and
encrease
sinners
amongst
men
,
or
of
due
proportion
,
amongst
the
partes
of
the
body
?
mee
thinkes
a
little
grace
doth
abundantly
supply
all
defects
in
nature
:
a
woeman
that
feares
God
,
appeares
alwaies
most
amiable
and
louely
;
though
in
bodie
neuer
so
deformed
:
let
this
Iewell
of
the
soule
comfort
you
against
all
other
crosses
,
though
you
had
nothing
else
in
this
world
,
glorie
in
this
,
that
you
know
and
feare
the
Lord
.
I
may
stay
no
longer
here
:
let
me
exhort
you
that
haue
heard
,
or
by
any
other
meanes
,
shall
heare
what
I
haue
deliuered
this
day
,
to
affect
true
prayse
:
bee
wiues
indeed
,
and
truth
,
like
helpfull
parts
in
a
liuing
body
,
not
in
name
and
shew
onely
like
artificiall
eyes
,
which
supplying
the
roome
,
performe
no
part
of
the
office
of
an
eye
:
wiues
neglecting
their
dutie
;
when
they
should
be
helpfull
,
become
hurtfull
;
are
but
the
shadowes
of
wiues
,
and
were
they
shadowes
onely
,
it
were
well
with
those
that
haue
them
,
if
you
would
haue
the
reward
,
doe
the
worke
of
good
wiues
:
seeke
the
chiefest
Iewell
,
weare
the
best
ornament
;
then
know
,
though
fauour
be
deceitfull
,
and
beautie
vanitie
;
yet
a
woeman
that
feares
the
Lord
shall
be
praised
.
We
all
stand
bound
to
acknowledge
this
grace
in
those
woemen
,
on
whom
God
hath
bestowed
it
;
husbands
,
children
,
neighbours
;
yea
,
the
whole
Church
must
giue
them
the
fruit
of
their
hands
:
whence
arises
for
our
instruction
this
third
and
last
conclusion
.
That
it
is
a
necessary
,
no
arbitrary
action
,
to
giue
vertuous
women
their
due
commendation
:
beautie
is
vanitie
,
and
fauour
deceitfull
;
not
worthy
naming
;
but
a
woman
that
feares
the
Lord
,
shee
shall
bee
praised
;
that
is
,
acknowledged
for
such
,
and
commended
:
besides
this
precept
we
find
the
spirit
of
God
hath
practised
it
else-where
:
it
is
storied
of
Ruth
,
Neither
is
it
without
Gods
guiding
prouidence
,
but
by
speciall
direction
,
that
humane
histories
,
haue
beene
such
faithfull
records
,
of
the
acts
of
vertuous
woemen
(
I
confesse
some
haue
impiously
dipt
their
pens
ouer-deepe
in
the
waters
of
Marah
,
going
to
describe
the
female
sexe
,
so
painfully
publishing
their
owne
disgrace
,
)
Suetonius
makes
mention
of
Claudia
,
who
seeing
her
father
,
riding
through
the
streets
of
Rome
,
to
be
pluckt
from
his
triumphant
Chariot
by
the
Tribunes
,
with
a
masculine
boldnesse
freed
him
from
their
hands
,
placed
him
againe
in
his
seate
,
and
neuer
left
till
shee
saw
him
,
receiued
withall
magnificent
pompe
into
the
Capitoll
.
Solinus
mentions
another
Romane
Lady
who
when
her
mother
was
committed
to
straight
prison
by
the
Triumuiri
,
there
to
be
starued
to
death
,
shee
nourisht
her
with
the
milke
of
her
owne
brest
:
Plinie
tels
vs
of
another
who
did
the
like
vnto
her
owne
condemned
Father
.
Wee
read
of
Alceste
,
that
died
to
saue
the
life
of
her
husband
Admetus
;
drawing
from
her
owne
chaste
breast
,
such
,
and
so
many
solid
drops
of
blood
,
as
erected
for
her selfe
a
liuing
monument
of
honour
to
out-last
time
;
the
like
instance
I
find
in
Iulia
,
the
wife
of
Pompey
,
mentioned
by
Plutarch
:
in
Portia
the
wife
of
Brutus
,
commended
to
vs
by
Valerius
Maximinus
:
and
in
Pompeia
Paulina
,
the
wife
of
Seneca
:
with
many
others
,
whose
names
deserue
to
bee
engrauen
in
pillars
of
Marble
,
and
all
to
teach
vs
the
necessity
of
this
duty
.
Which
will
further
appeare
if
wee
consider
these
enforcements
.
First
,
there
are
many
that
haue
had
and
doe
deserue
this
praise
,
you
haue
read
or
heard
(
I
presume
)
of
Rachel
,
and
the
pillar
Iacob
erected
in
memory
of
her
,
of
Deborah
.
Hannah
,
Ester
,
Iudeth
,
Marie
,
Martha
,
Lydia
,
Sarah
,
&c.
whose
names
,
and
condions
,
are
registred
by
a
neuer-erring
Historian
;
to
tell
vs
,
God
is
as
wel
pleased
with
the
gracious
actions
of
good
woemen
,
as
with
the
best
of
any
of
the
sonnes
of
men
;
and
that
we
,
as
he
,
ought
to
giue
them
their
due
commendation
:
who
can
passe
ouer
in
silence
the
renowned
names
of
our
two
famous
English
Elizabeths
,
without
admiring
the
one
for
valiant
doing
,
the
other
for
patient
suffering
,
many
calamities
(
the
Lord
in
mercy
,
put
an
end
vnto
them
in
his
time
)
and
praysing
both
for
their
vertues
;
many
others
I
could
name
where
I
liue
,
and
haue
liued
,
who
deserue
it
,
but
desire
it
not
;
let
their
owne
workes
praise
them
in
the
gates
.
Secondly
,
this
makes
much
for
Gods
glory
,
whose
power
is
most
seene
in
weakenesse
,
what
is
praise
worthy
,
is
the
speciall
worke
of
God
:
their
weakenesse
magnifies
his
power
;
when
they
are
praised
for
good
workes
,
hee
is
glorified
.
Thirdly
,
it
is
a
meanes
to
augment
that
which
is
commended
in
them
:
vertue
increases
by
praise
,
if
it
be
in
an
humble
minde
;
or
else
indeed
it
is
not
vertue
.
Fourthly
,
it
is
a
necessary
part
of
distributiue
Iustice
,
to
giue
to
euery
one
their
owne
,
praise
to
whom
praise
belongs
.
Fiftly
,
it
is
beneficiall
to
all
others
,
as
to
excite
and
stirre
them
vp
earnestly
,
to
seeke
after
that
Iewell
,
yea
,
to
sell
all
they
haue
,
to
buy
it
,
which
is
so
highly
and
generally
commended
:
so
also
it
will
serue
as
a
patterne
to
shew
them
how
they
must
liue
,
if
they
would
be
praysed
;
and
although
none
would
be
praised
,
yet
all
must
doe
things
worthy
praise
.
Sixtly
,
it
is
comfortable
to
suruiuing
friends
:
by
this
meanes
though
death
haue
depriued
you
of
the
presence
of
many
good
and
vertuous
woemen
;
yet
of
the
presence
of
their
vertue
and
good
workes
,
it
cannot
:
a
good
name
is
left
still
,
yea
,
a
fresh
memory
,
which
will
speake
in
their
praise
,
when
they
are
turned
to
clay
,
grace
our-liues
death
;
it
stoopes
not
to
the
graue
,
but
wa●tes
on
the
soule
to
the
throne
of
glory
;
beauty
and
fauour
moulder
into
dust
,
the
feare
of
the
Lord
indures
for
euer
.
It
cannot
be
but
a
great
comfort
to
heare
wise
men
,
and
religious
woemen
,
speake
truly
in
prayse
of
our
departed
friends
;
to
see
the
pens
of
strangers
employed
as
Gods
instruments
to
publish
their
due
praise
,
a
reward
to
them
,
an
example
to
others
.
In
the
application
of
this
Lesson
,
we
find
matter
of
direction
,
teaching
vs
,
as
to
practise
what
is
here
inioyned
for
the
time
to
come
;
so
to
be
sorry
for
former
neglects
:
we
may
not
,
we
must
not
be
silent
in
the
praise
of
good
woemen
:
their
number
is
small
,
the
fault
may
be
ours
:
when
goodnesse
is
slighted
or
disesteemed
by
most
,
weake
woemen
seeke
it
not
at
all
:
let
others
be
condemned
for
not
seeking
it
when
they
should
;
rather
then
any
of
vs
,
for
not
praysing
it
,
where
it
is
:
But
stay
;
are
wee
not
too
forward
in
this
point
?
doe
not
most
bedaube
the
dead
with
vndeserued
praises
?
too
many
no
doubt
:
but
then
the
rule
set
downe
here
is
not
obserued
:
they
praise
them
,
but
doe
not
giue
them
the
workes
of
their
owne
hands
:
they
rob
one
to
enrich
another
,
take
Iewels
from
the
Israelites
,
and
giue
them
to
the
Egiptians
:
as
in
Rome
common
strumpets
haue
beene
highly
extold
;
so
amongst
vs
,
those
are
often
praysed
after
death
,
both
in
funerall
Orations
and
ordinary
talke
,
who
neuer
yeelded
any
fruit
praise-worthy
during
life
:
by
this
fauning
stile
,
God
is
highly
dishonoured
,
good
men
and
woemen
discouraged
,
and
the
vildest
wretches
countenanced
in
euill
:
I
speake
not
this
as
condemning
al
those
which
haue
,
or
do
cast
a
few
flowers
vpon
the
coffin
of
the
dead
,
it
may
be
they
saw
more
in
them
then
all
others
did
:
but
could
wish
men
in
this
kind
,
where
sin
raignes
euidently
,
aboue
the
feare
of
God
,
to
be
wisely
sparing
for
feare
of
future
danger
.
If
any
demand
here
how
a
good
woeman
may
be
knowne
,
that
so
they
may
praise
her
and
giue
her
the
worke
of
her
hands
without
offence
to
any
?
I
answere
;
for
this
end
you
must
make
vse
both
of
your
eye
and
eare
,
a
good
woeman
may
be
knowne
,
partly
by
what
you
see
in
her
,
partly
by
what
you
heare
of
her
:
First
,
by
what
you
see
in
her
,
that
she
be
(
as
farre
forch
as
is
possible
for
man
to
discerne
)
first
vertuous
,
inricht
with
competencie
of
knowledge
,
and
a
good
vnderstanding
agreeable
to
her
Sexe
:
able
to
discerne
betweene
good
and
euill
morally
;
and
accordingly
to
make
choyce
,
both
for
speculation
and
practice
;
with
wisedome
(
which
consists
in
seeking
for
)
finding
out
,
following
and
maintaining
the
truth
,
according
to
abilitie
,
place
,
and
calling
;
with
iustice
,
ready
to
giue
vnto
euery
one
their
owne
:
pietie
to
God
,
fidelitie
to
her
husband
,
charitie
to
the
needie
,
and
diligent
industri●
to
her
charge
in
familie
:
with
temperance
,
a
vertue
fetching
backe
all
extreames
to
a
mediocritie
,
and
is
employed
in
euery
vertuous
woman
,
about
these
particulars
especially
.
First
,
her
wordes
,
that
they
be
not
rash
,
hastie
,
loud
,
nor
many
,
especially
in
the
presence
of
her
husband
.
Secondly
,
her
pleasure
,
that
she
seeke
not
so
much
as
is
desired
by
the
vnregenerate
part
,
nor
any
at
all
,
as
the
flesh
desires
it
:
let
that
which
is
reported
of
Semiramis
,
Pasiphae
,
Faustina
,
Messalina
,
with
many
other
filthy
woemen
amongst
the
Gentiles
,
both
Grecians
and
Romanes
,
Marke
Anthonie
.
Fourthly
,
about
her
apparell
,
that
she
be
neither
garish
nor
sluttish
,
that
she
passe
not
the
bounds
of
her
Husbands
calling
,
and
abilitie
,
either
in
the
matter
,
or
manner
,
ground
or
fashion
of
her
attire
.
Secondly
,
it
is
required
she
be
religious
in
affection
,
profession
,
and
conuersation
;
that
she
delight
in
the
hearing
of
Gods
word
,
obserue
due
howers
of
prayer
publique
with
the
Church
,
especially
on
the
Lords
day
,
not
slighting
it
at
other
appointed
times
;
priuate
by
her selfe
,
and
after
with
her
familie
,
so
ordering
her
houshold
businesse
,
that
this
dutie
may
not
be
omitted
,
or
interrupted
through
her
default
:
that
shee
loue
Gods
seruants
,
countenancing
with
her
best
indeauour
the
best
things
;
without
this
all
the
rest
are
little
worth
:
chuse
no
wife
,
praise
none
chosen
,
without
some
signes
of
grace
,
some
manifestation
of
the
power
of
Religion
.
Thirdly
,
it
is
required
,
she
be
obedient
,
humble
,
chaste
,
sober
,
discreete
in
her
carriage
,
and
outward
behauiour
:
obserue
a
woman
in
her
house
,
table
,
and
furniture
,
for
order
and
dsposition
of
things
left
to
her
trust
,
in
her
cloathing
,
going
,
laughing
,
and
talking
;
and
you
may
quickly
discerne
her
what
she
is
in
these
as
in
a
glasse
,
the
minde
is
represented
,
formall
hypocrites
,
faile
manifestly
in
some
of
these
,
when
an
honest
heart
keepes
a
decorum
in
all
.
Secondly
,
you
may
iudge
of
a
woman
by
what
you
heare
of
her
;
not
from
euery
tongue
;
some
inuent
to
publish
what
may
please
their
owne
,
or
the
itching
fancie
of
an
il-willing
neighbour
;
some
passe
sentence
rashly
,
without
Iudgement
or
experience
,
vpon
heare-say
from
others
as
bad
as
them selues
;
so
fame
becomes
a
liar
)
but
from
the
best
and
most
iudicious
,
who
are
so
obseruant
of
good
things
,
that
a
gracious
woman
cannot
misse
a
good
report
,
where
ere
she
liues
.
Feare
not
,
omit
not
to
giue
such
a
one
the
fruit
of
her
hands
,
and
let
her
owne
workes
praise
her
in
the
gates
.
A
sort
of
men
there
haue
beene
,
and
are
(
a
viperous
broode
of
degenerating
Adamites
)
who
doe
so
basely
deiect
woeman-kinde
,
as
to
thinke
and
say
,
nothing
they
can
doe
,
is
praise-worthy
:
so
their
actions
,
though
painfull
and
pious
,
neuer
come
in
remembrance
to
be
spoken
of
,
or
in
a
cold
slight
,
and
scornefull
manner
onely
:
how
highly
these
offend
and
dishonour
God
Almightie
,
in
denying
them
the
worke
of
their
owne
handes
,
and
disesteeming
that
exact
part
of
his
workemanship
.
I
would
they
knew
:
enuying
the
good
they
might
see
in
them
,
or
fretting
at
their
praise
.
Notwithstanding
this
vnnaturall
spight
and
wicked
behauiour
of
some
men
,
in
denying
women
due
praise
,
and
giuing
them
the
heauy
fruit
of
their
vnmanly
hands
,
beating
in
stead
of
praising
,
who
haue
their
reward
:
what
comfort
and
encouragement
should
the
consideration
of
this
Scripture
,
yeeld
to
godly
,
vertuous
,
and
religious
woemen
;
though
men
should
not
,
yet
God
you
see
doth
respect
you
;
hee
hath
done
it
,
and
will
continually
raise
vp
others
to
giue
you
the
fruit
of
your
hands
:
onely
remember
to
doe
worthily
in
Ephrata
,
Of
the
Text
hitherto
.
And
now
for
conclusion
,
it
may
bee
expected
,
and
is
,
as
it
hath
beene
a
commendable
custome
in
this
and
other
Churches
(
in
the
purest
season
)
I
should
adde
something
in
particular
,
concerning
the
occasion
of
our
meeting
;
which
is
to
interre
the
Corps
(
ere-while
containing
a
vertuous
soule
)
of
Mistris
Marie
Crosse
:
And
were
not
my
purpose
such
,
I
should
be
iniurious
to
her
name
,
vniust
to
her
desert
,
and
first
of
all
giue
ill
example
in
thwarting
my
owne
Doctrine
;
which
I
hope
(
through
Gods
grace
enabling
)
I
willingly
neuer
shall
.
It
is
no
arbitrary
,
but
a
necessary
dutie
,
to
giue
this
good
woeman
some
part
of
her
due
commendation
,
for
the
comfort
of
the
shruiming
friends
,
and
the
encouragement
of
many
vertuous
Matrons
left
behinde
.
To
name
the
Text
onely
were
sufficient
,
Fauour
is
deceitfull
,
and
beautie
vanitie
,
but
a
woman
that
feares
the
Lord
shall
be
praysed
.
You
are
all
perswaded
(
I
doubt
not
)
she
was
a
woman
that
feared
the
Lord
heartily
,
and
therefore
must
be
praised
:
deale
iustly
with
her
;
giue
her
the
fruit
of
her
hands
,
and
let
vs
permit
her
owne
good
workes
to
speake
for
her
,
and
praise
her
in
the
gates
.
For
my
owne
part
,
as
Peter
and
Iohn
answered
the
Scribes
and
Rulers
,
As
a
Woman
;
(
with
her
Birth
and
Parentage
I
was
neuer
acquainted
)
this
I
know
,
what
the
Scripture
speakes
of
Abigail
,
applies
it selfe
vnto
her
;
she
was
a
Woman
of
a
good
vnderstanding
;
wise
,
iust
,
sober
,
chaste
,
louing
,
discreete
in
all
her
actions
,
temperate
in
wordes
,
in
pleasure
,
diet
,
apparell
;
from
faults
I
exempt
her
not
;
sinnes
shee
had
,
inward
corruptions
,
whereof
she
would
often
complaine
with
teares
,
else
we
nor
shee
had
beene
here
to
day
.
As
a
Wife
;
you
haue
beene
eye-witnesses
of
her
dutifull
obedience
,
submissiue
and
reuerend
behauiour
;
indued
she
was
with
a
great
measure
of
patience
,
carefull
to
content
her
Husband
,
gouerne
her
house
,
and
to
bring
vp
her
children
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
reading
to
them
,
examining
of
them
in
the
grounds
,
and
principles
of
Religion
,
(
the
practice
of
euery
good
woman
,
according
to
abilitie
)
so
spending
spare
houres
,
when
others
were
at
the
Gossips
play
;
neither
was
it
labour
in
vaine
,
Gods
blessing
in
her
Children
was
one
of
her
chiefest
comforts
to
her
dying
day
.
As
a
Christian
?
she
hath
beene
an
ancient
Disciple
,
a
professour
of
Religion
in
the
power
thereof
,
and
a
practitioner
of
pietie
in
truth
and
sinceritie
;
this
was
her
onely
ioy
,
comfort
else
,
being
wondrous
sickly
,
shee
had
but
little
in
this
world
;
ornaments
,
with
other
feminine
toyes
shee
esteemed
none
;
in
comparison
of
this
Iewell
:
much
good
I
haue
obserued
in
her
my selfe
,
but
haue
heard
much
more
,
admiring
the
truth
and
power
of
God
,
that
some
should
praise
her
for
her
pious
deuotion
and
religious
behauiour
,
who
yet
were
neuer
guiltie
of
any
good
.
Three
things
especially
are
reported
of
her
by
faithfull
witnesses
:
First
,
that
she
spent
constantly
some
part
of
euery
day
in
reading
,
and
meditating
on
the
word
of
God
,
and
that
shee
read
ouer
the
Bible
this
last
halfe
yeare
before
her
death
;
as
if
her
commission
had
run
thus
;
read
my
will
once
more
,
and
then
come
home
:
a
shame
to
such
who
haue
liued
in
health
many
whole
yeares
,
and
hitherto
haue
neuer
read
it
ouer
:
many
vse
their
booke
a
little
on
the
Lords
day
,
turne
to
places
,
cited
,
as
if
they
would
note
them
for
future
meditation
:
but
returning
home
,
the
booke
is
laid
vp
in
a
spare
roome
,
nere
troubled
more
till
some
seruant
come
to
shake
off
the
dust
,
that
it
be
fit
for
publike
vse
in
the
eye
of
the
Church
;
with
such
formalities
God
is
not
pleased
:
if
she
be
blessed
for
delighting
in
the
law
of
God
day
and
night
,
as
she
did
;
what
are
they
?
Secondly
,
that
she
would
not
sleepe
on
the
Lords
day
;
no
,
not
in
the
greatest
extremitie
of
her
last
sicknesse
,
notwithstanding
that
her
weake
body
was
chiefly
sustained
by
sleepe
,
and
her
friends
and
Children
would
often
perswade
to
it
,
vrging
Gods
gracious
acceptance
of
the
will
for
the
deed
,
where
abilitie
was
wanting
to
actuate
good
desires
:
howsoeuer
,
in
the
iudgement
of
the
strictest
Diuines
,
it
is
very
lawfull
and
tolerable
,
yet
in
the
exuberance
of
her
zeale
,
her
answere
still
was
thus
,
or
to
this
effect
:
no
she
would
not
yeeld
that
day
to
sleepe
,
it
was
the
Lords
day
,
the
Soules
market-day
:
if
I
lose
this
day
,
what
shall
the
Soule
feede
on
all
the
weeke
after
?
How
should
I
answere
it
if
my
Lord
should
come
and
call
to
take
mee
hence
,
finding
mee
this
day
sleeping
?
I
will
not
doe
it
;
can
I
not
watch
one
houre
?
the
health
of
body
I
both
respect
and
desire
,
preferring
still
the
welfare
of
the
soule
,
and
though
I
cannot
spend
it
as
I
would
,
being
Gods
prisoner
,
yet
my
endeauour
shall
not
be
wanting
in
heart
and
minde
,
to
ioyne
with
the
publike
assembly
,
and
such
indeed
her
manner
was
to
spend
the
whole
day
when
she
could
not
goe
to
Church
(
her
lingring
disease
did
stay
her
long
and
often
)
in
prayer
,
reading
and
meditation
:
a
shame
to
such
among
vs
,
that
prophanely
mis-spend
the
Lords
day
,
sleeping
all
the
morning
securely
,
till
the
Bell
cals
them
:
as
if
putting
on
of
our
best
cloathes
,
and
running
away
,
were
all
,
nothing
else
required
,
when
some
preparation
is
as
necessary
as
the
seruice
:
he
shall
bring
home
but
little
good
,
that
goes
to
market
without
money
in
his
purse
;
greater
shame
to
such
as
come
to
sleepe
in
the
Church
:
her
zeale
would
not
permit
her
to
sleepe
in
great
weakenesse
,
on
her
bed
alone
,
where
none
could
be
offended
.
Gods
awfull
presence
cannot
keepe
you
from
sleeping
in
health
,
in
Gods
house
,
amongst
a
multitude
,
where
many
are
offended
thereby
:
if
her
vigilancie
bee
to
be
admired
,
take
heede
least
Iudgement
finde
you
napping
.
Thirdly
,
that
she
obserued
constant
houres
euery
day
for
priuate
prayer
on
her
knees
;
euen
when
for
very
weakenesse
shee
could
not
rise
againe
,
till
some
came
in
to
helpe
her
vp
.
Oh
happy
Soldier
!
thy
warre
is
ended
,
victory
wonne
,
and
the
crowne
obtained
;
sing
deare
Saint
the
songs
of
Zion
:
thy
teares
are
washt
away
,
enioy
thy
rest
.
I
could
delightfully
stay
here
to
admire
this
free
prisoner
,
in
her
heauenly
conuersation
,
till
the
houre
of
her
desired
dissolution
.
To
behold
in
a
weake
,
leane
,
dying
body
,
true
beautie
and
to
obserue
the
picture
of
pietie
in
this
spirituall
anatomie
:
how
welcome
is
weakenesse
,
when
accompanied
with
such
strength
of
grace
?
but
me
thinkes
I
see
already
your
eyes
full
,
and
the
glasse
emptie
,
I
may
not
stay
.
One
thing
I
would
request
of
her
Husband
and
Children
,
before
I
leaue
,
and
that
is
,
they
would
make
knowne
vnto
the
world
,
their
loue
,
dutie
,
and
respect
vnto
her
,
by
imitation
of
her
in
pietie
,
humilitie
,
sobrietie
,
frugalitie
and
loue
towards
Gods
Children
,
follow
her
in
grace
,
you
shall
follow
her
to
glory
,
and
let
this
be
ingrauen
on
her
Tombe
.
-
As
she
liued
,
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
.
-
So
shee
dyed
,
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
.
Lastly
,
to
conclude
in
a
word
to
you
all
my
right
dearely
beloued
,
if
you
like
this
that
you
haue
heard
to
day
;
and
desire
so
much
might
be
spoken
of
you
after
death
,
goe
home
,
and
do
likewise
:
sell
all
you
haue
for
this
Iewell
;
shake
off
your
dearest
sinne
;
liue
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
you
shall
dye
in
his
fauour
,
the
fruit
of
your
hands
shall
bee
giuen
you
,
and
your
owne
workes
shall
praise
you
in
the
gates
.
Soli
Deo
Gloria
.
FINIS
.