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love_n	child_n	love_v	wife_n	5,735	5	7.1980	4	true

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A73427	The merchant royall A sermon preached at White-Hall before the Kings Maiestie, at the nuptials of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay and his Lady, vpon the Twelfe day last being Ianuar. 6. 1607.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1607 (1607)	STC 25658.5; ESTC S123341	16,628	46

both Application to the maried sexes The cause of this meeting the ioy of this day yea the mysterie and little image of this great intended Vnion Let me be bold I beseech you in termes of modestie to make applicatiō to you You are here met to be matcht that is to bee married and mariage as the Apostle faith is honourable in all but thrice honourable in you first honourable in the institution as in all other secondly in your personages being honourable aboue other but thirdly in your countries the most honourable of all other for simply to marrie ioynes sex and sex to marrie at home ioynes house and house but your marriage ioyneth land and land earth and earth onely Christ goes beyond it who ioynes heauen and earth Therefore first to you the honourable Application to the Bridegroome Merchant of this honourable ship you haue heard what is said that mariage is a sore aduenture and therefore as mariners vpon the sea in the day time look vp to the Sunne and in the night to the Pole starre so looke you vp day and night to God and God shall giue you good shipping therein A married man they say hath the charge of three cōmonwealths for hee is a husband of a wife a father of children and a master of seruants and he hath daily need of God who should guide all these Therefore first loue God and to proue that loue loue also her whom God hath giuen you for if as S. Iohn saith He that loueth not his brother c. how much more he that loueth not his wife whom he daily seeth how shall hee loue GOD whom he neuer saw and indeed there is no religion nor goodnes in that man that loueth not a faithfull and loyall wife And say not you loue vnlesse you loue to the end for much water cannot quench loue Cantic 8. for loue endureth all things beleeueth all things and suffereth all things therfore if there grow by the wife any cause of griefe yet you must remember shee is the weaker vessell God therein exerciseth your wisedome in reforming and your patience in bearing it and with whom will a man beare if not with his owne wife If at any time you haue occasion to exercise your authoritie yet you must remember it is authoritie tempered with equalitie the wife is therefore to be gouerned with loue not ouerruled by tyrannie And let all husbands know this for a rule all things that the wife shall much better do her dutie to her husband when the husband doth his owne dutie in example before And let me speake one word to you Application to the Bride this honourable Ship you are turned by Gods prouidence to the right of a Merchant stranger yet herein happy that you neede not as Pharaohs daughter to sorget either your owne people or your fathers house All the time of your life you haue bin gathering for this day therfore learne to practise now what you haue learned before that is to honour to loue and to obey and then at last you shall come to rule for a good wife by obeying of her husband rules him but she that obeyeth not is like the conspiracy of Corah against Moses and Aaron Besides remember your badge is not as of that ship Act. 28. not Castor and Pollux for I finde neither superstition nor idolatrie in any part of your familie but I finde among other things a sheafe of wheate and a handfull of wheate adunanced vpon your sterne therefore doubtlesse it will be expected that Plentie peace and prosperitie come in with you I might referre you for paternes of true vertue as S. Paul sometime referred Timotly to Lois and Eunica a grandmother a mother and indeed this chapter of Salomon is entituled The prophecy or lesson which his mother taught him and if you remember the many good lessons your mother hath taught you then shall I need to say no more then shall you be like Rachel and Leah which twaine did build vp the house of Israel then shall you bee a ship indeed for you shall bring your selfe and your husband to the hauen euen to that which Sea-men call Promontorium bonae spet The hill or hauen of good hope that is to heauen and when this mariage is dislolued you shall marrie at last with the Lambe In the meane time doe worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Brittanie liue to a hundred grow into thousands and your seede possesse the gate of his enemie And God almightie who brought vs all hither by the institution and helpe of holy marriage hee bring vs at last to that happie and endlesse societie with his Son to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be ascribed al praise power and dominion now and for euer Amen FINIS

dwell in too to eate and drink and sleepe and labour and meditate and pray too as if to bee in a ship were to be in another earth the water-world In like manner a man hath a friend for pleasure a seruant for profit and sor vses to Godward a spirituall instructor too but a wife serues for al these that is for pleasure for profit and if she be good to bring her husband to good too Againe of all these same Vtensilia I meane of moueable instruments a ship is the hugest and the greatest and yet commanded as ye see by the helme or sterne a small peece of wood so ought the wife though a great commāder in the house yet to be turned and ruled by a word of her husband Salomon saith not she is like a house as many women be as good remoue a house as to disswade or weane them from their wils but like a ship not like Vashti the wife of Assuerus whō all the power of the kingdome could not moue to come to her husband no not to the King himselfe Ester 1. but she must follow her husband as the Israelites followed the clowdie piller in the wildernes which Numb 9. when it stood they staied and when it went they followed and so must she Lastly lest any man doate too much vpon this heauenly ship of earthly ioyes we must remember that as a ship is not a place of continuall habitation but onely for passage so is the societie of the wife though comfortable and ioyfull for the time yet lasting only for a time a help to hold him vp comfort him during this transitory short and troublesome pilgrimage but thē there is another a happier a more lasting mariage with the Lambe which neither departure diuorce nor death can separate and for this wee must forsake father mother wife children goods lands c. for this the liuing must renounce his life the King must leaue his crowne the Bridegrome must leaue his Bride and the Bride must leaue her bed because for this the Saints doe crie Come Lord Jesus come quickly But as the saying is in the schooles Similitudo non currit quatuor pedibus Many things may be like yet nothing like in all things Therfore though a woman in many things be like a ship yet in some things she must be vnlike and some qualities of a ship she must not haue As for example one ship may belong to many Merchāts and one Merchant may be owner in many ships yet neither may one woman diuide her loue to many men nor one man diuide himselfe to many women therfore Lamech spake with great incongruitie yea it was like false Latin when he said Heare yee wiues of Lamech Genes 4. 23. for wiues admitno pluralitie when they bee construed with one husband because as the Prophet saith though God at the first had abundance of spirit yet he made but one Mal. 2. but one woman of one rib for the helpe and comfort of one man Secondly of all the goods which men possesse onely a ship cannot be housed a man hath a shop for his wares a barne for his corne a chest for his mony a house wherein to hide his head but no case to couer a ship but so must not a vertuous woman bee for it is a note of the vnchast woman that her feete cannot abide in her house but now she is without now in the street and lies in waite at euery corner Prou. 7. 11. 12. So as who so seeth her seeth her alwaies gadding that hee may salute her as men salute at sea Whither are ye bound But Rachel and Leach are noted to bee in the house while Iacob was abroad in the field Genes 31. onely Dinah was a stragler and set vp saile to Shichem but she came home with shame and made an ill voiage Thirdly a ship of all things is moueable and carried with the winde but so must not a good woman be for of the ill woman it is said Prouerbs 5. Herpaths are moueable thou canst not know them She is inconstant light headed and vaine now she loues anon she hates now she obeies anon she rebels gentle and Kinde to day crooked and vnkinde to morrow for she sailes but by gusts that all her goodnesse takes her by fits like the good daies of an ague and whereas Ruth shewed more Ruth 3. goodnes at her latter end than at her beginning an ill wise she weth more goodnesse in one day of her beginning than in seuen yeeres of her latter end therefore such must remember what Salomon saith of the good woman here she girdeth her loynes with slrength that is her minde with staiednes and constancie ver 17. and vers 12. more plainely She Will doe her husband good and not euill all the daies of her life that is she is as obedient and tractable after twentie yeeres triall as at the day of her marriage But of all qualities a woman must not haue one quality of a ship and that is too much rigging Oh what a wonder it is to see a ship vnder saile with her tacklings and her masts and her tops and top gallants with her vpper deckes and her nether deckes and so bedeckt with her streames flagges and ensignes and I know not what yea but a world of wonders it is to see a woman created in Gods image so miscreate oft times deformed with her French her Spanish and her foolish fashions that he that made her when hee lookes vpon her shall hardlie Know her with her plumes her fannes and a silken vizard with a ruffe like a saile yea a ruffe like a rainebow with a feather in her cap like a flag in her top to tell I think which way the winde will blow Esay made a proffer in the third of his prophecie to set out by enumeration the shop of these vanities Their bonnets and their bracelets and their tablets their slippers and their mufflers their vailes their wimples and their crisping pinnes of some where of if one should say to me as Philip sometime said to the Eunuch Vnderstandest thou What thou readest Act. 8. I might answere with the Eunuch againe How can I without a guide that is vnlessc some Gentlewoman would comment on the text But Esay was then and we are now now that fancy hath multiplied the text of fashions with the time so as what was then but a shop is now increased to a ship of vanities But what saith the Scripture The Kings daughter is all glorious within Psal 45. and as ships which are the fairest in shew yet are not alwaies the fittest for vse so neither are women the more to be esteemed but the more to bee suspected for their faire trappings Yet wee condemne not in greater personages the vse of ornaments yea wee teach that siluer silkes and gold were created not only for the necessity but also for the ornament of the Saints in the practise where of Rebeccah a