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A sermon preached at Trafford in Lancashire at the mariage of a daughter of the right worshipfull Sir Edmond Trafforde Knight, the 6. of September Anno. 1586. By William Massie bacheler in diuinity, and fellow of Brasennose Colledge in Oxforde
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Massie, William, d. 1610.
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faithfully painefully in that vocation wherein God hath called him Gen. 2.15 So Adam before his fall had this charge of God to dresse the garden of Eden Gen. 3.15 And after his fall this precept In the sweate of thy brows thou shalt eate thy bread The diuine Philosopher Plato sawe so much by the instinct of nature Nemo sibi nascitur Cic. Offic. 1. wee are borne to defend our Country to benefit and gratifie our friendes and neighbours There be foure parts in the commoÌ„ wealth The Prince as the head the honorable and woorshipfull as armes and shoulders the state ecclesiastical as eies the common multitude as the feete O blessed and happie shall that realme be when these foure partes agree in a sweete consort and melody in the amiable and blessed loue of peace and vnity discharging their duties fully and faithfully in the feare of God The Prince in appointing the nobility and gentry in counselling the preachers in feeding and the people in beying 2. King 18. For Princes the imitation of Dauid of Ezechias of Iosias is worth the imitation who al were very diligent in appointing good lawes for the religion of God and also I may not forget the great zeal learning of Alphred king of this laÌ„d Act. and Mon. who diuided the day into three parts some hours he took for his priuat study seruice of god some he reserued for the hearing of matters of state and the common wealth and the rest he left for his rest repast and recreation For counsellers they may imitate Ioseph who vnder king Pharao ruled the land of Aegypt with great and singular wisdom and prouidence Gen. 41.39 Dan. 44.5 they must bee as Daniel was to Darius in whom the enemies coulde finde no fault touching the gouernment of his kingdome For the Clergy to feede by preaching by hospitality by godlines of life Humfred de vita Iuel to follow that reuerend Bishop of Salisbury who followed the noble emperour who said O where should a captaine die but in the fielde so his poesy was O where should a Bishop die but in the pulpit For where preaching faileth there the people perisheth Prou. 29.18 Rom. 13.12 For the common people they must be obedient to their Magistrat to loue and honor their Prince to bear that nature and affection to their soueraign as did the Israelites to Dauid the king of Israel who al made this noble protestation It is better that a thousand of vs dy than Dauid our king God saue Dauid the king if hee die the great light of Israel is quenched So let al faithful and loyal subiectes beare this affection to our most noble and gracious Princesse Elizabeth 2 Sam. 18.3 It is better that a thousand of vs die by the seditious treacheries of our false forsworne and fraudulent countrimen than Elizabeth our Queene God protect and preserue Elizabeth If shee die and miscarie the great light of Israell shall be quenched Now if our husband be any of these four he hath something to doe he must be careful to prouide for his house to feede cloth his family to instruct his wife and children to pay his seruants their wages faithfully and truely and to walke in that vocation with a good conscience whereto God hath called him Ari. oecom lib. 1. cap. 6. The office of the husband is to get the duery of the wife is to keepe the office of the husband is honeslly to maintaine his liuelihood the duty of the wife is prudently to gouerne the househould Such a noble care had the noble Emperor Valerianus of whome thus it is writ Euseb lib. 7. cap. 9. Aula Valeriani erat referta pijs viris Ecclesia Dei facta est The court of Valerianus the Emperour was fraught and furnished with godly men and made the Church of God Such a noble Captaine was Cornelius who hath this report to feare the Lorde with his whole family Act. 10.1.2 Thus if our husband labor in his vocation he shal haue this blessing of the Lord to eate the fruites of his own labours Eccles 1. The most noble and learned King Salomon in those 12. Chapters of his book Ecclesiastes declares most largely and learnedly how all things vnder the cope of heauen are nothing but griefe sorowe vexation anguish griefe of body sorrow of hart â—ixâ—tion of braine and anguish of mind but yet this to bee our part and portion and a blessing of God in this life when wee both sow and trape when we both plant the vine and drink the vine when we build houses and dwell therein when we can be content to liue of our owne for that is our owne that doth vs good when we eat drink without gluttony and drunkennes in sobriety and modesty in the fear of God This is a blessing this is a great blessing this is a great and gracious blessing of God himselfe and such a blessing shal this religious and wise politick husband enioy wheÌ„ I haue described to you wherin because I haue bin longer than either perhaps I should or you expected I wil be the shorter in the description of the wife and children Which thus foloweth in the Text. 3 Thy wife shall bee as the fruitful vine on the sides of thine house thy children like the oliue plants round about thy table Among the trees that be fertil and fruitful the Oliue is commended for his fatnes Iudg 9 9â— the fig tre for his sweetnes the vine for cheerfulnes for wine driues away sorrow is a souerain restoratiue for an heauy and pensiue hart so among all creatures men and weomen be only commended for their learning wisdom godlines The comparison of a woman to the vine I wil not amplify largely but touch it briefly First the vine is weak Plin. lib. 4. must be vnderset and vnderpropped by some sure and strong stay so the wife is the weaker vessell more subiect to infirmities a wise modest man wil not disclose hir infirmities but tolerat the same with good discretion 2. Sa. 11.1.7 so Bersabe was more beautiful than strong when she defiled hir body with Dauid brake her faith and loue with hir good husband Vrias which was the very occasion of his death Eua the mother of all shewed her selfe very weak when shee was beguiled with an aple Gen. 3.6 Gen. 19.26 Lots wife was both weak wicked when she looked back in token she lusted after Sodoma and Gomorra against the commandemeÌ„t of God but she was turned into a piller of salt a terrible spectacle most horrible monument of wicked back-sliders and sinful reuolters Plinie l. 14. to al godly posterity Secondly a vine is not only weak but low too it growes near the earth So a godly wife must not be proud and stately in her owne conceits but humble modest in the presence of her