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A19624	A lasting ievvell, for religious woemen In the summe of a sermon, preached at the funerall of mistris Mary Crosse, late wife of Mr. Henry Crosse of Barnestaple in the countie of Deuon merchant, Nouemb. 11. 1628. and now published with some additions. With a briefe description of her life and death. By William Crompton, preacher of the Word of God at Barnestaple in Deuon.	Crompton, William, 1599?-1642.	1630 (1630)	STC 6058; ESTC S117122	20,905	44

sowe in their Children the seedes of pride and idlenes by keeping them in the fashion for their haire face attire gesture complement c. neglecting the old fashion after which God made them to set them vp on high the churlish thistles daughter must marry with the Cedars sonne only for his height plodding to leaue them rich though gracelesse a greater fault there is in some other parents whose indeauour is to dishearten and hinder their forward children in good courses like the Scribes and Pharisees will neither enter heauen nor suffer those that would I aduise children to honour their parents because of our precept but God more because of many parents are deare Christ dearer their loue precious his inestimable the parents care may adorne the body this feare of the Lord is the soules ornament Secondly this serues to vnuaile the deformed pouertie of such women as want this Iewell though faire yet faithlesse and may be compared to an Irish bogge or quagmire which appeares greene and solid till it be tried then opens her mouth to deuoure the passenger such are faire rich women without grace to looke vnto they are like a bed of downe to touch like a bundle of the sharpest thornes whosoeuer deales with them had better grapple with a nest of snakes their ornaments are all outward and such as are indeede the disgrace of Christianitie borrowing poudering frizeling and cutting of their haire naked breasts ear-rings nose-iewels with strange fantasticke fashions yet what a gay show doe such make esteeming themselues no meane persons no more they are not for they are alwaies in extreames how haughtie are they walking with stretched-forth neckes wanton eyes tripping nicely as they goe how are they admired by simple ones that know them not when as there is nothing in them praise-worthy it must needs bee folly fl●ttery or both to commend them if wee giue them the fruit of their hands and let their owne workes speake for them what a haruest must they reape will they not blush to heare and see pride idlenesse lust drunkennesse laid before them as their owne Oh consider this yee back-sliding proud wanton wine-bibbing loud-speaking daughters the fruit of your hand shall be giuen you when nothing can be spoken of you but will dispraise you here and after death your name and memory shall rott away it is not a bare out-side will praise you nor painting that can preserue you your muffes ruffes laces lawnes perfumes rings bracelets with the rest of that deceitfull burthen a compleatly fashionable woman in our age beares a little packe about her laid aside what is left but a barren carcasse that neuer did nor is like to receiue any good without speedy repentance and reformation Let no vertuous Matrons be discouraged hereby nothing is spoken against yea I haue comfort for them in store Feare not yee I know you feare and seeke the Lord Iesus and what can daunt you should pouertie Christ is your riches sicknesse Christ is your health contempt in this world honoured you are and shall be in heauen want of a good complexion alas it is nothing and it may be it is in mercy those that haue it sinne more about it and encrease sinners amongst men or of due proportion amongst the partes of the body mee thinkes a little grace doth abundantly supply all defects in nature a woeman that feares God appeares alwaies most amiable and louely though in bodie neuer so deformed let this Iewell of the soule comfort you against all other crosses though you had nothing else in this world glorie in this that you know and feare the Lord. I may stay no longer here let me exhort you that haue heard or by any other meanes shall heare what I haue deliuered this day to affect true prayse bee wiues indeed and truth like helpfull parts in a liuing body not in name and shew onely like artificiall eyes which supplying the roome performe no part of the office of an eye wiues neglecting their dutie when they should be helpfull become hurtfull are but the shadowes of wiues and were they shadowes onely it were well with those that haue them if you would haue the reward doe the worke of good wiues seeke the chiefest Iewell weare the best ornament then know though fauour be deceitfull and beautie vanitie yet a woeman that feares the Lord shall be praised We all stand bound to acknowledge this grace in those woemen on whom God hath bestowed it husbands children neighbours yea the whole Church must giue them the fruit of their hands whence arises for our instruction this third and last conclusion That it is a necessary no arbitrary action to giue vertuous women their due commendation beautie is vanitie and fauour deceitfull not worthy naming but a woman that feares the Lord shee shall bee praised that is acknowledged for such and commended besides this precept we find the spirit of God hath practised it else-where it is storied of Ruth Ruth 3.11 that all the people of the Citie did know her for a vertuous woeman that is acknowledge commend and praise her of Abigail 1. Sam. 25.3 that she was a woman of a good vnderstanding in the booke of Kings 2. Kings 4.9 we find the good Shunamite commended and our blessed Sauiour himselfe enioynes it to bee done of one woman Math. 26.13 for a good worke performed by her wheresoeuer this Gospell shall be preached in the whole world there also shall this that this woman hath done be told for a memoriall of her So of Tabitha the spirit records Acts 9.36 that she was full of good workes and almes-deeds which she did Neither is it without Gods guiding prouidence but by speciall direction that humane histories haue beene such faithfull records of the acts of vertuous woemen I confesse some haue impiously dipt their pens ouer-deepe in the waters of Marah going to describe the female sexe so painfully publishing their owne disgrace Suetonius makes mention of Claudia who seeing her father riding through the streets of Rome to be pluckt from his triumphant Chariot by the Tribunes with a masculine boldnesse freed him from their hands placed him againe in his seate and neuer left till shee saw him receiued withall magnificent pompe into the Capitoll Solinus mentions another Romane Lady who when her mother was committed to straight prison by the Triumuiri there to be starued to death shee nourisht her with the milke of her owne brest Plinie tels vs of another who did the like vnto her owne condemned Father Wee read of Alceste that died to saue the life of her husband Admetus drawing from her owne chaste breast such and so many solid drops of blood as erected for her selfe a liuing monument of honour to out-last time the like instance I find in Iulia the wife of Pompey mentioned by Plutarch in Portia the wife of Brutus commended to vs by Valerius Maximinus and in Pompeia Paulina the wife of Seneca with

A LASTING IEWELL FOR RELIGIOVS WOEMEN In the summe of a Sermon Preached at the Funerall of Mistris MARY CROSSE late Wife of Mr. HENRY CROSSE of Barnestaple in the Countie of Deuon Merchant Nouemb. 11. 1628. and now published with some Additions With a briefe description of her life and death By WILLIAM CROMPTON Preacher of the Word of God at Barnestaple in Deuon Thus shall it be done to them whom the Lord will honour LONDON Printed for EDVVARD BLOVNT 1630. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL CHRISTOPHER BLACKHALL Esquire and to the vertuous Gentle-woman Mistris DOROTHIE BLACKHALL his Wife Grace Mercy and Peace WOrshipfull Sir my losse hath occasioned this gaine to the Church the death of my dearest friend giuing life to this Monument Iacob erects a Pillar vpon the Graue of his beloued Rachell Gen. 35.20 my desire was the memory of mine might not perish nor her Vertues with her body be buried in the Land where all things are forgotten for that end I haue at length preuailed to make that publike which was deliuered vpon a short warning the speaker limited both for time and Text at her funerall neither knew I any to whom I might more fitly Dedicate the same of right belonging to her neerest Kinsman then to your selfe with your vertuous second deare shee was vnto you while liuing and I know the fragrant smell of a bruised rose will not be vnwelcome though dead I could not then wish her to liue still in misery I now desire shee may liue in memory according to the promise of God made vnto his Saints Psal 112.6 Prou. 10.7 The memory of the iust is blessed and the righteous shall be had in euerlasting remembrance Worthy Sir if you may hereby reape any comfort I shall haue the more content if God may haue any glory the Church any benefite religious Woemen encouragement hence the Author I know obtaines his expected reward who otherwise was vnwilling to feele againe the lashes of this censuring Age. Thus not doubting to finde a kinde acceptance of a good meaning I commit all to the blessing of God leauing you and yours to the rich mercies of God our Father in Christ and rest now as euer Barum this 14. Nouemb. 1629. Your Worships Kinsman to be commanded in what I am able HENRY CROSSE A Lasting Ievvell FOR RELIGIOVS WOEMEN PROV 31.30.31 Fauour is deceitfull and Beautie vanitie but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praysed giue her of the fruit of her hands and let her owne workes prayse her in the gates THis portion of Scripture Right Worshipfull Men Fathers and Brethren all dearely beloued in the best beloued Christ Iesus is part of a Prophecie see the first verse of the Chapter and therefore certaine 2. Pet. 1.19 S. Peter cals it the sure word of prophesie which came not by the will of man but men of God spake as they were mooued by the holy Ghost S. Paul chargeth vs that we despise not prophecying either by vnbeliefe or by an idle fruitlesse hearing a long Ex●rdium to prepare you I shall not and haue good reason to hope I need not vse hauing hitherto found you as louing willing and attentiue hearers as euer I spake vnto God grant continuance with increase of practice where attention will proue obedience to our Sauiour and obedience bring profit with delight the matter carries its owne weight to procure entrance into the dullest eare onely take heed how you heare this Prophecie which Salomon learned of his mother In the whole Chapter you haue first generall directions for a good King and in him for any that truely feare God and desire to order their life according to his word and they are especially three conteined in the nine first verses First to deale iustly with euery one Verse 8.9 Giue vnto God the things that are Gods honour glory with vniuersall obedience giue vnto Caesar and with him to euery other man what belongs vnto them Iustice first named because first in being and chiefe in working by the Law of Nature and Nations rayse not your selues vpon the ruine of your brethren vniust increase will consume the principall yet looke not so much vpon others as to forget your selues Iustice like Charitie must begin at home he cannot be acceptably iust towards another in the acts of commutatiue and distributiue Iustice who is cruelly vniust to himselfe in neglecting the safety of his owne soule defraud not your owne soules of spirituall food and tillage to starue or permit them grow needy is the greatest Iniustice sowe the seedes of grace your soules require it and you shall reape the haruest of glory your Sauiour hath promised it Secondly to bee temperate in the vse of wine Verse 4.5.6 Sobriety and strong drinke God commands it nature requires it common honesty cals for it a customary drunkard whether by quaffing or slipping in passiue or actiue drunkennesse glorying in that shamefull practice to lay others asleep Tauerne-haunter health-drinker and destroyer fights against all giant-like in his alie Metamorphosis thinkes himselfe able to wage warre with nature procures such a habit in it as will not be remooued without great difficulty forgets God his seruice himselfe wife Children soule and all let all starue for bread soe hee may haue drinke enough makes himselfe vnseruiceable and consequently a slaggering burthen both to Church and Common-wealth layeth himselfe nakedly open to the fierce wrath of God Almightie to all the danger and disgrace can possibly bee thought on as by many wofull examples we haue seene in euery age and finally looseth all his friends good name estate health and saluation without speedy and speciall repentance read at your leasure 1. Sam. 25.37 38. Prou. 33.19.20 21 29. Prou. 30.31 32 33. Esay 5.22 1. Cor. 6.10 Gal. 5 21. then consider how vile a vice drunkennesse is and how hard to be left Chastitie This is first in intention last in expression as the subiect of the following discourse required Thirdly to be resolute in resisting all the deceitfull baytes of feminine beauty vnruly appetite would betray our strength and make vs yeeld at the sight of euery weake woman did we not heare another voyce from heauen Giue not your strength to woemen nor your wayes to that which destroyeth Kings It is reported that Alexander would not looke on the wife of Darius least hee that had ouercome many men should be shamefully vanquished by one woeman one wanton eye may let in more ruines to the soule then two hands can thrust out gaze not on beautie it is vanitie listen not to the voice of fauour it is deceitfull let not your hearts be insnared with such knowne traps the gaine of the flesh is in this sense the losse of the soule reade what is written Prou. 2.18 19. The house of a whorish woeman inclines vnto death and her pathes vnto the dead None that go vnto her returne againe neither take they hold of the pathes of life She hath