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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74683	A sermon called A vvife mistaken, or a wife and no wife : or Leah in stead of Rachel; a sermon accused for railing against women; for maintaining polygamie, many wives, for calling Iacob a hocus-pocus. A sermon laught at more than a play (by the ignorant) for many such mistakes : justified by the wise. Wisedome is iustified of her children. / By Tho. Grantham M. Art. curate of High Barnet neer London, invenies aliquem -	Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.	1641 (1641)	Thomason E172_19	9,043	16

take his fill of love with her he may be thinks she is weeping in his absence when she is tumbling in her perfumed bed as you may read there verse 17. I have perfumed my bed with Myrrhe Aloës and Cynamon I have decked it with coverings of tapestry and fine linnen of Egypt no question this woman embraces her husband when he comes home and he discovers nothing for the way of an whorish woman as Solomon saith is like the flight of a Bird in the aire like the passage of a ship upon the sea like a serpent creeping into a rocke no signe of the birds flying of the serpents creeping of the ships passage Look upon Ioseph's Mistresse she hath his coat to shew for honesty Ecce signum Behold the coat of this Hebrew did Sampson thinke those hands would have clipped his lockes that had so often embraced his body Some rash men do maintain that the reason why men thinke there are so many good women is because they are so blinde and ignorant themselves if they had but the eyes of the Wise to see with Solomons eyes may be they would say There was not one good of a thousand and he had told them one by one And how does Solomon define a good woman just as the Philosopher does Vacuum ex supposito quod detur if there be a Vacuum it is Locus non repletus corpore if there be or shall ever be such a thing in the world as a good woman then she is this and that she is like a merchants Ship that bringeth her food from far and what of greater value she is like to precious jewels she is like to them but there is none like to her none of equal value with her Solomon saith She is a crowne to her husband she is the glory of her husband faith Saint Paul the very skarlet she cloathes her servants in does shew her honourable God himselfe cals her an helper and such a helper she is that man could not have been capable of that blessing Increase and multiply without her then it was The Seed of the woman that brake the Serpents head she was Deipora she brought forth a God and here I will bebold to say out of the due honour to that Sexe that there have been women have deserved these praises of Solomon What was that Ester that Cherubin of the Church under whose wings it was safe the Papists call the Virgin Mary Regina Coeli Queen of Heaven and they pray to her to command our Saviour Mater impera Filio Mother command thy Son She hath more Churches dedicated to her than our Saviour than all the Trinity although she paid her Fine in milke but He in blood as a great Divine saith How happy hath this Kingdom been under a Queen there are many eyes now living that have seen it and not a man but knowes it I need not instance in particulars the elect Lady and her sister to whom Saint Iohn writ Priscilla able to informe a learned man Apollos in the Scripture these women were highly honoured by that Apostle called from Heaven Greete Priscilla and Aquila Rom. 16. 3. Aquila and Priscilla salute you 1. Cor. 16. 19. salute Priscilla and Aquila 2. Tim. 4. 19. Priscilla went with him into Syria Act. 18. 18. and thus much for the discovery how long may a man sleep before he knowes with whom or what she is he sleeps withall before he knows whether it be Leah or Rachel I am come now to the division or separation and you see it is a high and great division Iacob begins to word it to fall to termes with Laban who was his Master What is this thou hast done unto me did not I serve with thee for Rachel wherefore then hast thou beguiled me And indeed the inconveniences were very many that be fell Iacob by this wicked act of Laban first of all he made his daughter a whore and a whore is odious to the children of God she was either to be burnt or to be stoned Then the wrong done to Rachel being deceived of her expectation was enough to make her weepe her selfe blear ey'd like Leah then he brought an inconvenience upon Iacob having more wives then one some say it was a sin some hold it a great Inconvenience to have one therefore much more to have two The married man is intangled like a fish in a net he comes merrily in but he is mightily perplext when he cannot get out then this action of Laban was enough to set the sisters at variance and what joy could Iacob have when his wives were devided it was enough to devide his heart then the desire of rule and je●lousies and distrusts that one hath of the other then the charges to m●intaine two whereas Iacob if he had had but one he wou●d never have sought further God made but one for Adam and Lamech was the first that had two Wives and he had no more then two and he was of the posterity of Cain and condemned by the fathers and from Adam to Abraham none of the posterity of Seth had more then one wife that we read of they two shall be one flesh and how can that be if a man have many wives God made onely male and female and he took but one rib and made of one rib One Woman not many I will not say it was a sinne to have many wives for I finde it in the Law Deut. 21. 15. If a man have two wives one that he loveth and another that he hateth and there the Law speakes of both their sons as legitimate Deut. 17. 17. the Law does forbid the King to have many wives which may draw away his minde and Saint Augustine upon that place saith permissum Regi habere plures uxores non plurimas he may have more then one or two but not many and Iehoiada that was a most holy Priest took two wive● for King Ioash 2. Chron. 24. 3. but me thinks I hear some say Laban is unjustly condemned for dealing so strictly with Iacob was it not a great kindnesse in Laban to take Iacob Iacob that had cosined his Father his Brother and to trust him with his flock and then it was a kindnesse that he gave him his daughter and for ought I know the better of the two the fairest as not alwaies the best Beautifull Rachel sold Iacob for Mandrakes whereas blear eyed Leah bought him and went out to meet him Gen. 30. 16. Tender eyed Leah will be weeping at my misfortunes when beautifull Rachel will be laughing with another Abraham went in danger with beautifull Sarah but Iacob liveth secure with tender eyed Leah Rachel stole her fathers gods and could see her Father and husband quarrel the while when Leah was continually weeping Rachel will be impatient if she have not what she desires give me Children or else I dye and what is beauty with such disquietnesse but like a faire house haunted with sprites or