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A40658	Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2420; Wing F2476; ESTC R210330	100,765	342

have any benefit by them and are so farre from suffering the Poore to gleane that even they themselves gleane from the Poore and speake much like to churlish Nabal 1 Sam. 25. 11. Shall I take my Wheat my Rye and my Barley which I have prepared for my Family and give it to the Poore which I know not whence they be Yea some have so hard hearts that they would leave their Graine to be destroyed by Beasts and Vermine rather then that the Poore should receive any benefit thereby Cruell people which preferre their Hogs before Christs Sheep Mice before Men Crow●s before Christians But withall Poore people must learne this Lesson to know the meaning of these two Pronoun●s Mine and Thine what belongs to their rich Masters and what pertaines to themselves The Sheep which had little spots those were Iacobs Fee so the little spots the loose straggling and scattered Eares those are the Poores but as for the great ones the handfulls the arme-fulls the Sheaves the Shocks the Cocks these are none of theirs but the ●ich Owners and therefore let the Poore take heed how they put forth thei● hand● to their n●igh●ours goods Motive One forcible Motive to perswade the Rich to suffer the Poore to gleane may be this Even the greatest in respect of God is but a gleaner God he is the Master of the Harvest all Gifts and Graces they are his in an infinite measure and every godly man more or lesse gleanes from him Abraha● gleaned a great gleane of Faith Moses of Meeknesse Iosh●ah of Valour Samson of Strength Solomon of Wealth and Wisdome S. Paul of Knowledge and the like Now if we would be glad at our hearts that the Lord would give us free leave and libertie ●or to gleane Graces out of his Harvest let us not grudge and repine that poore people gleane a little gaine from our plentie To conclude when God hath multiplyed our five Loaves that is when of our little Seed he hath given us a great deale of increase let poore people like Ruth in the Text be the twelve Baskets which may take up the fragments of gleanings which are left Vers. 8 9 10. Then said Boaz unto Ru●h Hearest thou my Daughter goe to no ●ther field ●o gather neither goe from hence but abide here by my Maidens Let thy eyes be on the field which they doe reape and goe after the Maidens Have I not charged the servants that they touch thee not Moreover when thou art thirstie go unto the vessels drink of that which the servants have drawn Then she fell on her face and bowed her selfe to the ground and said unto him Why have I found favour in thy eyes that thou shouldst know me since I am a stranger MOthers and Nurses are very carefull tenderly to handle Infants when they are but newly borne So Ruth Christ was newly formed in her a young Convert a fresh Proselyte and therefore Boaz useth her with all kindnesse both in workes and words Hearest thou my Daughter Observation Aged persons may terme younger people their Sonnes and Daughters 1 Sam. 3. 6. And if they were persons in Authoritie though they were well-nigh equall in age they used the same expression Thus Ioseph to his Brother Benjamin Gen. 43. 29. God be mercifull to thee my Sonne Let young people therefore reverently observe their dutie and distance to their Seniors in Age and Superiours in Authoritie Yet I am afraid men keepe not the method of Iacobs Children the eldest sitting downe according to his Age and the youngest according to his Youth but fulfill the Complaint of the Prophet The young presume against the aged and the base against the honourable Let aged persons strive to deserve their respect by demeaning themselves gravely and striving to adde gracious hearts to gray haires otherwise if they discover any lightnesse loosenesse wantonnesse in their carriage young men will hereupon take occasion not onely to slight and neglect but also to contemne and despise their paternall distance and Father-like authoritie Now as for young Ministers they have not this advantage to speake unto young people in the phrase of Boaz Hearest thou my Daughter but must practise S. Pauls Precept 1 Tim. 5. 1. Rebuke not an Elder but exhort him as a Father and the younger men as Brethren the elder women as Mothers the younger as Sisters in all purenesse But abide here by my Maidens Observation Hence we g●ther 't is most decent for women to associate accompanie themselves with those of their owne Sexe Miriam Exod. 15. 20. with a feminine Quire with Timbrels and D●nces answered the men and the Disciples wondred Iohn 4. 27 th●t Ch●ist t●lk●d with a woman sh●wing hereby th●t it w●s not his ordinarie course to converse alone with one of another Sexe For herein the Apostles Precept deserves to take place namely to avoid from all appearance of evill Have I not commanded the servants that they should not touch thee Boaz had just cause to feare lest some of his servants might wrong her to prevent which he gave them strict charge to the contrarie Observation Here we see that servile natures are most prone and proclive to wrong poore strangers Indeed generous spirits disdaine to make those the subjects of their crueltie which rather should be the objects of their pittie but it complyes with a servile disposition to tyrannize and domineere over such poore people as cannot resist them Like pettie Brookes pent within a narrow Channell on every dash of Raine they are readie to overflow and wax angry at the apprehension of the smallest distast The Locusts Revel 9. 10. had tails like Scorpions and stings in their tails which by some is expounded that of those people which are meant by the Scorpions the poorest were the proudest the meanest the most mischiveous the basest the bloodiest And surely he that readeth the story of our English Martyrs shall find that one Alexander a Iaylor and one drunken Warwick an Executioner were most basely and barbarously cruell to Gods poor Saints Secondly From these words observe That it is the part of a good Master not onely to doe no harm himselfe but also to take order that his Servants doe none Gen. 12 20. 26. 11. When Elisha would take nothing of Naaman 2 Kings 5. 20. Gehazi said As the Lord liveth I will run after him and take something of him Thus may base Servants if not prevented with a command to the contrary wrong their most right and upright Masters by taking Gifts and Bribes privately The water though it ariseth out o● a most pure Fountain which runneth through Mine●alls of Lead Copper Brimstone or the like hath with it a strange taste and rellish in the mouth So Justice which should runne downe like a streame though it ariseth out of a pure Fountaine out of the breast of a sincere and incorrupted Judge yet if formerly it hath passed through the Mines of Gold and Silver I meane through bad

which Dinah like go only to see the Customes of severall Countries and make themselves the L●ckie● to their own humorou● curiosity henc● commeth it to p●sse when they returne it is justly questionable whether their Clothes be disguised with more foolish fashions or bodies disabled with more loathsome Diseases or souls defiled with more notorious vices having learned Jealousie from the Italian Pride from the Spaniard Lasciviousness● from the ●rench Drunkennesse from the D●tch and yet what need they go so farre to learn so bad a lesson when God knows w● have too many Schooles where it is taught here at home Now if any do demand of me my opinion concerning our Brethren which of late left this Kingdome to advance a Plantation in New England surely I thin● as St. Paul said concerning Virgins He had received no comma●dment from the Lord so I cannot find any just warrant to incourage men to undertake this removall but think rather the counsel best that King Ioash prescribed to Amaziah tarry at home yet as for those that are already gone farre be it from us to conceive them to be such to whom we may not say God speed as it is in 2 Ioh. vers 10. but let us pitty them and pray for them for sure they have no need of our mocks which I am affraid have too much of their own miseries I conclude therefore of the two Englands what our Saviour saith of the two wines Luk. 5. 39. No man having tast●d of the old presently desireth the new for he saith the old is better He and his wife and his two sons Vers. 2. And the name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion Ephrathites of Bethlehem-Judah and they came into the Country of Moab and continued there THese words contain first The principall party that undertook the journey 2ly His company described by their relations his Wife and Children and by their names Naomi Mahlon and Chilion 3ly The successe of his journey When he came into the Land of Moab he continued there Now whereas Elimelech took his Wife and Children along with him from his practise we gather this Observation Observ. It is the part of a kind Husband and of a carefull Father not onely to provide for himselfe but also for his whole Family Gen. 2. 24. A man shall cleave to his wife and they two shall be one flesh Ephe. 5. 25. Husbands love your wives for no man as yet hated his own flesh 1 Tim. 5. 8. If any one provideth not for his own Family he denyeth the faith and is worse than an Infidell this made Abraham to take with him at his removal his meek Sarah Isaac his wife Rebecca Iacob his fair Rachel and fruitfull Leah and Ioseph Mat. 2. took with him Mary his espoused wife and our Saviour his supposed Sonne And when Pharoah Exod. 10. 9. offered Moses with all the men of Israel to go out of Egypt but on condition they should leave their Wives and Children behind them Moses refused the proffer he would either have them all go out or else he would not go out at all Vse It confuteth such cruell Husbands and carelesse parents who if so be with Iobs Messengers they onely can escape alone they care not though they leave their wives children to shift for themselves like the Ostridge Job 39. 14. who leaveth her Eggs in the sand and so forsakes them Surely the two Kine which drew the Arke of God out of the Land of the Philistines to Bethshemesh 1 Sam. 6. 12. shall rise up at the day of Iudement and condemn such cruell Parents for it is said of them That as they went along the high way they did pittifully low by that querulous ditty as nature afforded them utterance with witnessing and expressing their affection to their Calves shut up at home O that there should be such humanity as I may terme it in Beasts and such beastlinesse in many men Remember this you that fit drinking and bezzling wine abroad whilst your Family are glad of water at home and think thus with your selves To what end is this needlesse wast might it not have been sold for many a penny and have been bestowed on my poor Wife and Children Observ. Secondly Whereas we find Naomi and her Sons going with Elimelech we gather It is the duty of a dear Wife and of dutifull Children to go along with their Husband and Parents when on just cause they remove into a forraign Country It was an unmanly and cowardly speech of Barak to Deborab Judg. 4. 8. If thou wilt go with me then will I go but if thou wilt not go with me then will I not go but it would be a gracious resolution of a grave Matron and her Children Husband if you be pleased to depart I will be ready to accompany you Father if you be minded to remove I will attend upon you but if you be disposed to sta● I will not stir from the p●ace where you abide otherwise if ●he wife refus●th to go along with her Husband what Abraham Gen. 24. 8. said to the Servan● in another case is true in this respect but i● the Woman will not be willing to follow thee then thou shalt be clear from thine Oath if the wife be so peevish and perverse th●t she will not go along with her Husband who propoundeth lawfull means unto her to relieve her wants then is he acquitted from the Oath he made her in Marriage when he plighted his troth unto her in sicknesse and in health to maintain her Question But methinks I hear the Widows and Orphants crying unto me as the Souldiers to Iohn Bapti●● But what shall we do Luk. 3. It is true saith the Widow that kind Husbands a●e to provide for their Wives but alas we have no Elimelech's to carry us into a forraign Country in the time of Famine indeed saith the Orphant it is the Fathers duty to provide for his Children but my Parents are dead long ago I have not as Samuel had a Mother Hannah every year to bring me a new Coate what shall we do in this our distresse Answer Answer Use the best means you can and for the rest relie on Gods providence who is said Psal. 10. 20. To help the fatherlesse and poor to their Right Psal. 68. 5. To be a father to the fatherlesse and to defend the cause of the Widow even God in his holy habitation who will deale with thee as he did with David When my Mother and Father forsooke me the Lord cared for me So much for Elimelech's company described by their relations we should come now to speak of their names where we might take occasion to speak of the Antiquity and use of Names but that hereafter we shall have better conveniency to treat thereof in those words Call me not Naomi but call me Marah We come therefore to the successe of Elimelech's journey

learne that it is a part of good Husbandry in a numerous Family to have one servant as Steward to over-see the rest Thus Abraham had his Eliezer of D●mascus Potiphar his Ioseph Ioseph his man which put the Cup into Benjamin's Sack Ahab his Obadiah Hezekiah his Eli●kim the sonne of Hilkiah Observation Let Masters therefore in chusing these Stewards to be set above the rest take such as are qualified like Iethro's description of inferiour Judges Exod. 18. men of courage fearing God dealing truly hating covetousnesse And how-ever they priviledge them to be above the rest of their servants yet let them make them to know their dutie and their distance to their Masters lest that come to passe which Solomon fore-telleth Prov. 29. He that bringeth up his servant delicately in his youth will make him like his sonne at the last Let Stewards not be like that unjust one in the Gospel who made his Masters Debt●rs write down fiftie measures of Wheat and fourescore measures of Oyle when both severally should have been an hundred but let them carefully discharge their Conscience in that Office wherein they are placed whilest inferiour servants that are under their command must neither grieve nor grudge to obey them nor envie at their honour But let this comfort those underlings that if they be wronged by these Stewards their Appeale lyes open from them to their Master who if good will no doubt redresse their gri●vances Now if Stewards be necessarie in ordering of Families surely men in autho●itie are more necessarie in governing the Church and managing the Common-wealth If a little Cock-Boat cannot be brought up a Tributarie Rivulet without one to guide it how shall a Car●van a Gallioun or Argosie sayling in the vast Ocean be brought into a Harbor without a Pilot to conduct it Let us therefore with all willingnesse and humilitie submit our selves to our Superiours that so under them we may live a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie Whose is this Maid Boaz would know what those persons were that gleaned upon his Land and good reason for we ought not to pros●tute our liberalitie to all though unknowne but first we must examine who and whence they be otherwise that which is given to worthlesse persons is not given but throwne away I speake not this to blunt the Charitie of any who have often bestowed their benevolence upon Beggars unknowne and unseene before but if easily and with conveniencie as Boaz could they may attaine to know the qualities and conditions of such persons before they dispose their liberalitie unto them And the servant which was appointed He herein performed the part of a carefull servant namely fully to informe his Master Servants ought so to instruct themselves as thereby to be able to give an account to their Lords when they shall be called thereunto and give them plenarie satisfaction and contentment in any thing belonging to their Office wherein they shall be questioned Now whereas he doth not derogate or detract from Ruth though a stranger but sets her forth with her due commendation we gather Servants when asked ought to give the pure character of poore people to their Masters and no way to wrong or traduce them Which came and said Let me gather I pray See here Ruths honestie she would not presume to gleane before she had leave Cleane contrarie is the practice of poore people now-adayes which oft times take away things not onely without the knowledge but even against the will of the owners The Boy of the Priest I Sam. 2. 16. when the Sacrifice was in offering used to come with a flesh-hooke of three teeth and used to cast it into the fat of the Sacrifice making that his Fee which so he fetcht out if any gain-say'd him he answered Thou shalt give it me now or if thou wilt not I will take it by force Thus poore people now-adayes they cast their hooke their violent hands gleaning the leane will not content them into the fat the best and principall of rich mens Estates and breaking all Lawes of God and the King they by maine force draw it unto themselves Not so Ruth she would not gleane without leave And stayed here from morning untill now See here her constancie in Industrie Many are very diligent at the first setting forth for a fit and a gird for a snatch and away but nothing violent is long permanent They are soone tyred quickly wearie and then turne from labour to lazinesse But Ruth continued in her labour from the morning till now till Night till the end of the Harvest O that we would imitate the constancie of Ruth in the working out of our salvation with feare and trembling Not onely to be industrious in the Morning when we first enter into Christianitie but to hold out and to persevere even to the end of our lives Onely she ●arried a little in the house No doubt some indispensable businesse detained her there and probable it is that a principall one was to say her Mattins to doe her Devotions commend her selfe with fervent prayer unto the Lord to blesse her and her endeavours the day following A whet is no let saith the Proverb Mowers lose not any time which they spend in whetting or grinding of their Sythes our prayer to God in the Morning before we enter on any businesse doth not hinder us in our dayes worke but rather whets it sharpens it sets an edge on our dull soules and makes our mindes to undertake our labours with the greater alacritie And here may I take just occasion to speake concerning Gleaning Consider first the antiquitie thereof as being commanded by God Levit. 19. 9. and 23. 22. Secondly consider the equitie thereof it doth the Rich no whit of harme it doth the Poore a great deale of good One may say of it as Lot of Zoar Is it not a little one and my soule shall live Is it not a pettie a small exile courtesie and the hearts of poore people shall be comforted thereby Reliquiae Danaum atque immitis Achillis the Remnant which hath escaped the edge of the Sythes and avoided the hands of the Reapers Had our Reapers the Eyes of Eagles and the Clawes of Harpeyes they could not see and I snatch each scattered Eare which may well be allowed for the Reliefe of the Poore When our Saviour said to the woman of Syrophaenicia It is not good to take the Childrens Bread and cast it to the Dogs She answered Ye● Lord but the Dogs eat of the Childrens Crummes that 〈◊〉 from their Table So if any Misers 〈◊〉 It is not meet that my Bread should 〈…〉 unto poore people to gleane Corne upon my Lands yea but let them know that poore people which are no Dogs but setting a little thick Clay aside as good as themselves may eat the falling Crummes the scattered Eares which they gather on the ground Vse It may confute the Covetousnesse of many which repine that the Poore should

augmentation of their owne Estat●s from the diminution of their Masters Bountie Question But some may say Why did not Boaz bestow a quantitie of Corne upon Ruth and so send her home unto her Mother Answer He might have done so but he chose rather to keep her still a working Where we learne that is the best Charitie which so relieves peoples wants as that they are still continued in their Calling For as he who teacheth one to swimme though happily he will take him by the Chinne yet he expecteth that the learner shall nimbly ply the Oares of his hands and ●eet and strive and struggle with all his strength to keepe himselfe above water so those who are beneficiall to poore people may justly require of them that they use both their hands to worke and feet to goe in their Calling and themselves take all due labour that they may not sinke in the Gulfe of Penurie Relieve an Husbandman yet so as that he may still continue in his Husbandry a Trades-man yet so as he may still goe on in his Trade a poore Scholar yet so as he may still proceed in his Studies Hereby the Common-wealth shall be a gainer Drones bring no Honey to the Hive but the painfull hand of each privat man contributes some profit to the publike good Hereby the able poore the more diligent they be the more bountifull men will be to them while their bodies are freed from many diseases their soules from many sinnes whereof Idlenesse is the Mother Lazinesse makes a breach in our Soule where the Devill doth assault us with greatest advantage and when we are most idle in our Vocations then he is most busie in his Temptations A reverend Minister was wont to say that the Devill never tempted him more then on Mondayes when because his former Weekes Taske was newly done and that for the Weeke to come six dayes distant he tooke most libertie to refresh himselfe Since therefore so much good commeth from Industrie I could wish there were a publike Vineyard into which all they should be sent who stand lazing in the Market-place till the eleventh houre of the day Would all poore and impotent were well placed in an Hospitall all poore and able well disposed in a Work-house and the common Stocks of Townes so layd out as they thereby might be imployed So she gleaned in the field untill evening The Night is onely that which must end our labours onely the Evening must beg us a Play to depart out of the School of our Vocation with promise next Morning to returne againe Man goeth out to his labour untill Evening Let such then be blamed who in their working make their Night to come before the Noone each day of their labour being shorter then that of S. Lucy and after a spurt in their Calling for some few houres they relapse againe to lazinesse And she threshed what she had gathered The Materialls of the Temple were so hewed and carved both Stone and Wood before that they were brought unto Hierusalem that there was not so much as th● noyse of an Hammer heard in the Temple So Ruth fits all things in a readinesse before the goes home What formerly she gleaned now she threshed that so no noyse might be made at home to disturbe her aged Mother Here we see Gods servants though well descended disdaine not any homely if honest worke for their owne living Sarah kneaded Cakes Re●eccab drew Water Rachel fed Sheepe Thamar baked Cakes Suetonius reporteth of Augustus Caesar that he made his Daughters to learne to spinne and Pantaleon relates the same of Charles the Great Yet now-adayes such is the pride of the World people of farre meaner qualitie scorne so base imployments And it was about an Ephah of Barley An Ephah contained ten Omers Exod. 16. 36. An Omer of Mannah was the proportion allowed for a mans one day meat Thus Ruth had gleaned upon the quantitie of a Bushell such was her Industry in diligent bestirring h●r selfe Boaz his Bountie in scattering for her to gather and above all God his Blessing who gave so good successe unto her Ruth having now done gleaning did not stay behind in the field as many now-adayes begin their worke when others end if that may be termed worke to filch and steale as if the darke Night would be a Veyle to cover their deedes of Darknesse but home she hasteneth to her Mother as followeth Vers. 18 19. And she tooke it up and went into the Citie and her Mother in law saw what she had gathered also she tooke forth and gave to her that which sh● had reserved when she was sufficed Then her Mother in law said unto her Where hast thou gleaned to day And where wroughtest thou Blessed be he that knew thee And she shewed her Mother in law with whom she had wrought and said The mans name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz. And she tooke it up SEe here the shoulders of Gods Saints are wonted to the bearing of Burthens Little Isaac carryed the Faggot wherewith himselfe was to be sacrificed our Saviour his owne Crosse till his faintnesse craved Simon of Cyrene to be his successor Yet let not Gods Saints be dis-heartened if their Father hath a Bottle wherein he puts the teares which they spend sure he hath a Ballance wherein he weighs the Burthens which they beare he keepes a Note to what weight their Burthens amount and no doubt will accordingly comfort them Those are to be confuted who with the Scribes Math. 23. 4. binde heavi● burthens and grievous to be borne and lay them on the backs of others but for their owne part they will not so much as touch them with one of their fingers Yea some are so proud that they will not carry their owne Provender things for their owne sustenance had they been under Ruths Ephah of Barley with David in Sauls Armour they could not have gone under the weight of it because never used unto it And her Mother in law saw what she had gathered Namely Ruth shewed it unto her and then Naomi saw it Children are to present to their Parents view all which they get by their owne labour otherwise doe many Children now-adayes As Ananias and Saphira brought part of the Money and deposed it at the Apostles feet but reserved the rest for themselves so they can be content to shew to their Parents some parcell of their gaines whilest they keepe the remnant secretly to themselves Also she tooke forth and gave to her Learne we from hence Children if able are to cherish and feed their Parents if poore and aged Have our Parents performed the parts of Pelicans to us let us doe the dutie of Storkes to them Would all Children would pay as well for the partie-coloured Coats which their Parents doe give them as Ioseph did for his who maintained his Father and his Brethren in the Famine in Egypt Thinke on thy Mothers sicknesse when thou wast conceived sorrow when