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A10051 Maries memoriall A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle on Monday in Easter weeke being Aprill 1. 1616. By Daniel Price Doctor of Diuinitie, and chaplaine vnto the Kings maiestie. Price, Daniel, 1581-1631. 1617 (1617) STC 20297; ESTC S113685 49,518 72

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is no determination it is no article of our faith flesh and bloud is blinde in the best things we see but in part wee prophesie but in part Onely I wonder that this loud sounding solemne Prophesie of this Gospell and this work and this woman should be so stifled and strangled by the crooked lines of contrary Interpreters This woman saith my Text from whom as from the wombe of my Text we receiue this Doctrine Doct. the Lord giueth much honour to the woman as to the weaker vessell in that his spirit recordeth the least holy duties performed by women the Reason is to manifest that as the woman was the occasion of sinne and death so by Christ shee is made together coheire of the grace of life Sure Gods Spirit hath some especiall end in it to giue comfort and encouragement to that weake sex by taking an Inuentory of the particular acts in Scripture performed by women not onely the chamber prouided by the Sunamite for the Prophet 2 King 4.10 but a nights lodging afforded Ioshuas spies 2 King 4.10 by the Inne-keeper Rahab Iosh 2.1 Iosh 2.1 and a small measure of oyle and meale by the widdow to Elias 1 Kings 17.14 these are vpon record and loose not their reward Magdalens box Maries choice 1 King 17.14 Marthaes cheerfull entertainment the Sulamite Sunamite Caananite the woman of Samariahs pitcher the poore widdowes mite are not forgotten which is enough to put the life of religion into the hearts of women to see euery little dutie of theirs so well accepted And sure many of them haue beene both partakers of great mercy and instruments of Gods glory as in their owne lifes which as lamps gaue light to their vnbeleeuing Husbands so in gouerning their familie and in instructing their children so was Bathsheba a blessed mother to Salomon Loys to Timothy Maxima to Basill Monica to Austin Pulcheria to Theodosius Helena to Constantine in the sex where sinne hath abounded Grace hath superabounded But none of all that sex the blessed Virgin onely excepted hitherto euer receiued such an honour as this woman many daughters haue done vertuously but thou excellest them all Pro. 31. I deny not but Sathan that blasted Paradise hath much blemished the honour of this sex hee made choice of a woman to bee the first engine and in Paradise by this wheele he turned about the world and since Dalila was the trappe for Sampson the daughter of Pharaoh for Salomon Iesabell for Ahab almost all the heresies though fathered by men yet furthered by womens wit Helena furthers Simon Magus stratagem Phioumena her Apelles Montanus hath his Prisca Donatus his Lucilla Priscillinus his Galla Arius assisted by Constantines sister and Nicholas the Deacon hath a consort of such Companions and of all Creatures that euer GOD created there bee no such ensnaring attractiue loadstones and loadstarres to Superstition and Idolatry as women Yet as Ieremy spake of the figges the good figges were very good I●r 24.3 and the euill were very euill Ier. 24.3 So the good women are very good and such were those holy women in old time who trusted in God And as the Deuill neuer found of such an engine as the woman so neuer such an enemie aga●nst him as the woman Piumsane faithfull and pittifull ●u●●n and sanctified is this sex saith Austen and the honour done by our Sauiour vnto them hath much exalted the humble and meeke for besides that the Virgin concceiued him and Elizabeth in the house prophesied of him euery passage of his life had some women to attend him Hanna in the Temple reioyced to see him and Magdalen at the table washt and annointed him and Martha with a great feast entertained him and Mary her Sister poured ointment on him and Iohanna and Susanna and many women ministred of their substance to him the Daughters of Ierusalem wept for him sundry women with infinite sorrow attended him at the crosse when his Disciples fled from him and women came to the graue though Ioseph and Nichodemus had bestowed a hundred pound of Mirrh and Aloes as well applied as Art or Deuotion could deuise yet women came to embalme his body and whom they found wanting to annoint they sought weeping to lament This honourable testimonie of this holy woman giueth full assurance of our Sauiours acceptance of the seruice of that sex if they be sanctified seeing hee ioynes with this Gospell this woman and this worke The Vse whereof should incite all Christian women to serue the Lord that in the day of retribution Vse they may receiue reward from the Lord. S. Austen maketh this Vse Quum foenum eruerit slos deciderit Austin verbua● Domini manebit when the grasse and grace of beauty and the flower of mortall frailty shall fall the word of the Lord shall endure for euer Christian Matrones be yee ambitious of the beauty of the daughter of Zyon and remember yee that supercilious sailes of vanitie and vaine glory as they are the vnfitting fashion of the Court so the worst infection of the Citie Much ornament is no good signe painting of the face argues an ill complexion of body a worse mind Truth hath a face both honest and comely and lookes best in her wone colours The Lord threatneth in Esay to ransacke the womens wardrope and to take away the tinkling ornaments and their caules and round tires Esay 3. and chaines and bracelets and musters and bonnets and headbands and tablets and earnings and mantles and wimples and Iewells and hoods and vailes and crisping pinnes and threatneth A●sten lamentation and mourning and desolation to those daintie Creatures that sate at ease in Sion God is the same your sinnes the same your warning the same Nuptae Susannam Anna vidus virgines Mariam cogitent saith Austen I might remember you how hatefull the memorie of some women are a Diblaim or Dido Infaelix Dido nulls bene nupta marito Such are the sexes curse and the earths dregges of corruption I might remember you of our Debora blessed Elizabeth a woman after Gods owne heart the glory of the Christian and enuie of the Infidell world who was such a nursing mother to our Land and Church that the cause of Religion doth owe more to that one Queene then to many Kings that were before her But the time as well as the feast keeps Passouer and I follow All women must needs confesse that they can neuer honour him enough who hath honored them so farre as to make them the first witnesses of his resurrection Hugo and hath as Hugo obserueth principally deserued the loue of women in that hee vouchsafed to be borne of a woman that when it was granted to no man to be the father it was performed to a woman to bee the mother of Christ wherefore ye Ladies which like the lyllies of the field toile not nor spinne not and yet Salomon in all his royaltie not arraied as one of