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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02527	Contemplations vpon the principal passages of the holie historie. The third volume: in three bookes. By I. Hall, Doctor of Diuinitie; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 3	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1615 (1615)	STC 12654; ESTC S103660	101,087	468

vnto her people and to her Gods returne thou after her This one art-lesse perswasion hath preuailed more with the world then all the places of reason How many millions miscarry vpon this ground Thus did my fore-fathers Thus doe the most I am neither the first nor the last Doe any of the rulers We straight thinke that either safe or pardonable for which we can plead a precedent This good woman hath more warrant for her resolution then anothers practise The minde can neuer be steddy whiles it standes vpon others feet and till it be setled vpon such grounds of assurance that it will rather lead then follow and can say with Ioshua whatsoeuer become of the world I and my house will serue the Lord. If Naomi had not been a person of eminent note no knowledge had been taken at Bethleem of her returne Pouerty is euer obscure and those that haue little may go and come without noise If the streets of Bethleem had not before vsed to say There goes Naomi they had not now asked Is not this Naomi She that had lost all things but her name is willing to part with that also Call mee not Naomi but call me Marah Her humility cares little for a glorious name in a deiected estate Many a one would haue set faces vpon their want and in the bitternesse of their condition haue affected the name of beauty In all formes of good there are more that care to seeme then to be Naomi hates this hypocrisie and since God hath humbled her desires not to bee respected of men Those which are truely brought downe make it not daintie that the world should thinke them so but are ready to bee the first proclaimers of their owne vilenesse Naomi went full out of Bethleem to preuent want and now shee brings that want home with her which shee desired to auoide Our blindnesse oft times carries vs into the perills wee seeke to eschew God finds it best many times to crosse the likely proiects of his dearest children and to multiply those afflictions which they feared single Ten yeares haue turned Naomi into Marah what assurance is there of these earthly thinges whereof one houre may strip vs What man can say of the yeares to come Thus I will be How iustly doe we contemne this vncertainty and looke vp to those riches that cannot but indure when heauen and earth are dissolued Boaz and Ruth WHiles Elimelech shifted to Moab to auoide the famine Boaz abode still at Bethleem and continued rich and powerfull He staide at home and found that which Elimelech went to seeke and missed The iudgement of samme doth not lightly extend it selfe to all Pestilence and the sword spare none but dearth commonly plagueth the meaner sort and balketh the mightie When Boaz his store-house was emptie his fieldes were full and maintaine the name of Bethleem I do not heare Ruth stand vpon the termes of her better education or wealthy Parentage but now that God hath called her to want she scornes not to lay her hand vnto all homely seruices and thinkes it no disparagement to finde her bread in other mens fields There is no harder lesson to a generous minde nor that more beseemes it then either to beare want or to preuent it Base spirits giue themselues ouer to idlenesse and miserie and because they are crossed will sullenly perish That good woman hath not been for nothing in the schoole of patience shee hath learned obedience to a poore stepmother shee was now a widdow past he reach of any danger of correction besides that penurie might seeme to dispense with awe Euen children doe easily learne to contemne the pouertie of their owne Parents Yet hath shee so inured her selfe to obedience that shee will not so much as goe forth into the field to gleane without the leaue of her mother in law and is no lesse obsequious to March then shee was to Naomi What shall wee say to those children that in the maine actions of their life forget they haue naturall Parents It is a shame to see that in meane families want of substance causeth want of dutie and that children should thinke themselus priuiledged for vnreuerence because the Parent is poore Little do we know when wee goe forth in the morning what God meanes to doe with vs ere night There is a prouidence that attends on vs in all our waies and guides vs insensibly to his owne ends That diuine hand leads Ruth blindfolded to the field of Boaz That shee meets with his reapers and falls vpon his land amongst all the fields of Bethleem it was no praise to her election but the gracious disposition of him in whom wee mooue His thoughts are aboue ours and do so order our actions as we if wee had knowne should haue wished No sooner is she come into the field but the reapers are friendly to her no sooner is Boaz come into his field but he inuites her to more bountie then shee could haue desired now God begins to repay into her bosome her loue and dutie to her mother in law Reuerence and louing respects to Parents neuer yet went away vnrecompenced God will surely raise vp friends amongst strangers to those that haue been officious at home It was worth Ruthes iourney from Moab to meet with such a man as Boaz whom wee finde thriftie religious charitable Tho he were rich yet he was not carelesse hee comes into the field to ouersee his reapers Euen the best estate requires carefull menaging of the owner He wanted not officers to take charge of his husbandrie yet he had rather be his owne witnesse After all the trust of others the Masters eye feeds the horse The Master of this great houshold of the world giues vs an example of this care whose eye is in euery corner of this his large possession Not ciuilitie only but religion binde vs to good husbandrie We are all stewards and what account can we giue to our master if we neuer looke after our estate I doubt whether Boaz had been so rich if he had not been so frugall Yet was he not more thriftie then religious He comes not to his reapers but with a blessing in his mouth The Lord be with you as one that knew if hee were with them and not the Lord his presence could auaile nothing All the businesse of the familie speeds the better for the masters benediction Those affaires are likely to succeed that take their beginning at God Charitie was well matched with his religion without which good words are but hypocrites no sooner doth hee heare the name of the Moabitesse but he seconds the kindnes of his reapers and still he rises in his fauours First she may gleane in his field then shee may drinke of his vessells then shee shall take her meale with his reapers and part of it from his owne hand Lastly his worke-men must let fall sheaues for her gathering A small thing helps the needie an handfull of gleanings

would but now that shee shall conceiue a Sampson her choice must be limited There is an holie austerity that euer followes the speciall calling of GOD The worldling may take his full scope and deny his backe and belly nothing but he that hath once conceiued that blessed burden whereof Sampson was a type must bee strict and seuere to himselfe neither his tongue nor his palat nor his hand may runne riot Those pleasures which seemed not vnseemly for the multitude are now debarred him We borrow more names of our Sauiour then one As wee are Christians so wee are Nazarites the consecration of our God is vpon our heads and therfore our very haire should be holie Our appetite must be curbed our passions moderated and so estranged from the world that in the losse of parents or children nature may not make vs forget grace What doth the loosenes of vaine men perswade them that God is not curious when they see him thus precisely ordering the very diet of his Nazarites Nature pleades for liberty religion for restraint Not that there is more vncleannesse in the grape then in the fountaine but that wine findes more vncleannesse in vs then water and that the hie feede is not so fit for deuotion as abstinence Who sees not a ceremony in this commaund VVhich yet carries with it this substance of euerlasting vse that God and the bellie will not admit of one seruant that quaffing and cramming is not the way to heauen A drunken Nazarite is a monster among men We haue now more scope then the ancient not drinking of vvine but drunkennesse with wine is forbidden to the Euangelicall Nazarite wine wherein is excess Oh that euer Christian should quench the spirit of GOD with a liquor of Gods owne making That they should suffer their hearts to bee drowned with wine and should so liue as if the practice of the Gospell were quite contrary to the rule of the law The mother must conceiue the onely Giant of Israel yet must drinke but water neither must the child touch any other cup. Neuer wine made so strong a Champion as water did heere The power of nourishment is not in the creatures but in their Maker Daniel and his three companions kept their complexion vvith the same diet where-with Sampson got his strength he that gaue that power to the grape can giue it to the streame O God how iustlie doe wee raise our eyes from our tables vnto thee which canst make water nourish and wine enfeeble vs Sampson had not a better mother then Manoah had a wife she hides not the good newes in her owne bosome but imparts it to her husband That wife hath learned to make a true vse of her Head which is euer reade to consult with him about the messages of God If shee were made for his helper hee is much more hers Thus should good women make amends for their first offence that as Eue no sooner had receiued an ill motion but she deliuered it to her husband so they should no sooner receiue good then they should impart it Manoah like one which in those lend times had not lost his acquaintance with God so soone as hee heares the newes falls downe vpon his knees I do not hear him call forth and addresse his seruants to all the coasts of heauen as the children of the prophets did in the search of Elias to finde out the messenger but I see him rather looke straight vp to that GOD which sent him My Lord I pray thee let that man of God come again As a straight line is the shortest the neerest cutte to any blessing is to goe by heauen As we may not sue to God and neglect meanes so wee must sue to GOD for those meanes which we shall vse Whē I see the strength of Manoahs faith I maruell not that hee had a Sampson to his sonne he saw not the messenger hee heard not the errand hee examined not the circumstances yet now hee takes thought not whether he shal haue a sonne but how he shall order the sonne which hee must haue and sues to God not for the son which as yet hee had not but for the direction of gouerning him when he should be Zachariah heard the same message crauing a signe lost that voice wherwith he craued it Manoah seekes no signe for the promise but counsell for himselfe and yet that Angel spake to Zachary himselfe this onely to the wife of Manoah that in the Temple like a glorious spirit this in the house or fielde like some Prophet or Traueller that to a Priest this to a woman All good men haue not equall measures of faith The bodies of men haue not more differences of stature then their graces Credulity to men is faulty and dangerous but in the matters of GOD is the greatest vertue of a Christian Happy are they that haue not seene yet belieued True faith takes all for granted yea for performed vvhich is once promised Hee that before sent his Angel vnasked will much more send him againe vpon intreatie those heauenly messengers are readie both to obey their Maker and to relieue his children Neuer any man prayed for direction in his duties to God and was repulsed rather will God send an Angel from heauen to instruct vs then our good desires shall be frustrate Manoah prayed the Angel appeared againe not to him but to his wife It had been the shorter way to haue come first to the man whose prayers procured his presence But as Manoah went directlie and immediatly to GOD so God comes mediatly about to him and will make her the meanes to beare the message to her husband who must beare him the sonne Both the blessing and the charge are chiefely meant to her It was a good care of Manoah whē the Angel had giuen order to his wife alone for the gouerning of the childs diet to profer himselfe to this charge How shall we order the child As both the Parents haue their part in the being of their children so should they haue in their education it is both vnreasonable and vnnaturall in husbands to cast this burden vpon the weaker vessel alone it is no reason that she which alone hath had the paine of their birth should haue the pain of their breeding Thogh the charge be renued to the wife yet the speech is directed to the husband the act must be hers his must be the ouer-sight Let her obserue all that I haue commanded her The head must ouer-look the body it is the duty of the husband to be carefull that the wife do her dutie to GOD. As yet Manoah saw nothing but the out-side of a man and therfore offers the Angel an answerable entertainment wherein there is at once Hospitality and Thankfulness No man shal bring him good newes from GOD and goe away vnrecompenced How forward he is to feast him whom hee tooke for a Prophet their feet should be so much more beautifull