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A19626	A vvedding-ring, fitted to the finger of euery paire that haue or shall meete in the feare of God: or, That diuine circle of heauenly loue, wherein man and wife should walke all their dayes The posie whereof is an expression of a good husbands kindnesse toward his vertuous wife, with her retaliacion of like affection.	Crompton, William, 1599?-1642.	1632 (1632)	STC 6061; ESTC S121236	18,860	44

but once be done lest after we vainely wish it were to doe againe beaduised it is a long bargaine rash aduentures yeeld little gaine Secondly we are further informed that vertue is the chiefest flowre in A good wiues garden for this she is commended preferd for this riches beauty parentage fauour and proportion grow in lower rankes and serue to adorne the borders the heart is vertues place which showes it selfe to be aliue Math. 7.16 by the present fruits of vertuous actions none haue chosen well who haue preferd any thing to this in their choyce looke first on beauty and you buy a Picture looke first on riches and you make a purchase looke first on parentage you match with a multitude at one time but looke first on vertue and it is a marriage indeed two made one by a mysticall vnion representing that betweene Christ and his Church Ephes 5.26 27 28. the Law may tye two together that meet vpon sinister ends vertue onely vnites them therefore this is most excellent and praise-worthy all other flowres dye in Winter this flourishes most in old age others droupe vnder the stormy blasts of hoary Autumne while this enioyes a perpetuall Spring Thirdly we are hence informed that wiues should therefore striue to excell one another in vertue chiefly Plut. vit Lyeur Licurgus made the Lacedemonians equall in liuings and riches his reason was that they might striue to excell one another in vertue onely I seeke not such a Law supposing equality of desire this way may well stand with inequality of condition the excellency of riches and pouerty consisting in this ability through a vertuous disposition to make a right vse of either we see many contend for superiority in place who shall stand sit and goe before we may obserue women striue with their neighbours who shall excell in decking and trimming their bodies adorning and setting forth their houses following new fashions and out-stripping one another in excessiue feasting euident signes of great lightnesse to wrestle about or deeme themselues the better for any of these trifles emulation onely in the race of vertue is worth commendation Couet earnestly after the best things 1. Cor. 12. vlt. saith the Apostle Who shall be most rich in grace most zealous and forward in good duties who shall excell most in the vertues of humility temperance chastity modesty prouidence charity c. such couetousnesse is commendable such contention the issue of sinlesse-ambition let all care giue place to this all strife be turned into this how you may excell one another in vertue so shall loue regaine her ancient soueraignety amongst neighbous in spight of enuy Fourthly we may hence learne that married persons should conster the actions one of another in the best sence to say and thinke if it be true in any tolerable manner their owne choyce excels all others and that first in token of their submission to Gods disposition who ordaines meet matches allotting to euery body his owne ribbe secondly to manifest their contentation with their portion when they can say heartily their lot is fallen out vnto them in a good ground thirdly for a testimony of the truth of their affection each to other it is one property of loue to couer a multitude of infirmities and sometimes to iudge that excellent which is but weakely good wiues passing by their husbands faults husbands pardoning their wiues failings that so a good opinion may be still kept warme in the lap of mutuall affection First the husband must thus thinke of his wife and seasonably expresse it for a comfort to her against all her paines and trouble in child-birth and family affaires as also to encourage her continuance Though many daughters haue beene vertuous yet none so sit for me thou excellest all And to that end it is required she be first religious a profest seruant of Christ going and drawing others with her in the way to heauen for how can such be said to excell amongst men who are so farre from this spirituall exercise of climbing Iacobs Ladder that they neuer yet lookt vp towards heauen with any settled purpose to goe thither vnder this I comprize piety charity sobriety in words food rayment pleasure c. secondly that she be ossicious a builder together with her husband readie and willing both in regard of earth and heauen body and soule vnder this she is enioyned to be louing obedient helpfull in all good things to the vttermost of her power Let such a husband so inricht remember to be thankefull vnto God who hath done more for him then parents his purse or all the world could doe good seruants are a blessing good children a greater but a good wife best of all Some may reply here and demand How can we say as you teach without sinne when we see and feele the contrary I answere first it may be so many daughters haue beene vicious Dub. pag. 243. impost yours worst of all naturally women are wauering weake vnwise sight credulous newes louers giuen to lies Many haue beene and are irreligious enemies to profession in the powet thereof Many are giuen to pride idlenesse wantonnesse drunkennesse witnesse those conceited conditionall Lawes attributed to Zaleucus the Locrian restraining women that none should be attended with more then one maid in the street except when she was drunke that none should goe out of the City in the night except she went to commit adultery and that none should weare gold or embrodred apparell except when she purposed to manifest herselfe to be a common strumpet Many are giuen to lying swearing cursing brawling and fighting like deuils incarnate such ribbes are Satans shaftes taken from the sides to be shot against the heart of man to vexe him and to be as rottennesse in his bones and yours it may be for want of grace are worst of all of such neuer thinke nor say that they excell in vertue it is no part of the Doctrine here taught but the contrary women must doe things praise-worthy that will be praised Secondly blame your owne choyce beauty or riches was the Starre that ledde you how could you escape shippe-wracke you sought not for a vertuous mate no maruell if you found her not but she was once better take heede then some vntoward behauiour in you may occasion those vnruly passions in her a wife is like a shippe well steered she goes smooth if otherwayes she be guided by an vn-skilfull hand she turnes and tumbles would make one sicke to see her how-euer know it is a burden laid on you by the Lord to chastise your former folly trye your patience or to exercise your skill Thirdly suppose many failings in your wiues yet if there be a will to doe well a wise man may easily discerne betweene habituall wickednesse and intermissiue frailties deale with them as you would God should deale with you Accept the will For the deed Suffering is the way to victory to yeeld

except they feele it helpfull compassion is a marke of true deuotion while she feeds or clothes her body with rich dainties she is obserued to sigh and say What abundance doe I enioy when many a good soule wants necessaries her fulnesse yeelds no satisfaction vnlesse it ouerslow by communication Fiftly of her prouidence in gouerning her little Kingdome Verse 21.22 23 24. like a well-ordered Army euery one furnisht hath his place of employment assigned Lawes enacted houres of examination appointed lest she should erre in iudgement she lookes well to the wayes of her house-hold her eyes are in euery corner children learning seruants labouring all obedient to the becke of her hand and eye such soueraignety shines in the face of vertue she giues maidens a portion their lauish singers may not be their owne carners who care as little in the spending as they did in getting their Masters estate she clothes her family with scarlet the lasting-weed of deserued honour implying what shee is and deserues to haue makes her selfe carpets of tapestry the furniture of her house and table is the fruit of her hands made not bought ornaments in a Family are commendable Emblemes of pious industry as more vsefull things God allowing not onely to sustaine but to delight Nature she keepes her husband euer in that decent fashion of attyre which becomes his age and calling so that he is specially noted when he sits in the gates amongst the chiefe of the Land no paines about him is grieuous to her for whose sake all the rest are chearefully vndertaken Sixthly of her wisedome and discretion Verse 26. in speech she openeth her mouth with wisdome her words are few seasonable and weighty attire not curious nor carelesse but such as the time allowes in modest graue Matrons strength and honour are her clothing for behauiour in her tongue is the law of kindnesse she prouokes none to euill thoughts by lightnes neither sends any from her discontented through sowre sullen and heauy sadnes her carriage is so sweetly tempered with modesty and humility that at once she cheares the vertuous and curbs the vicious-minded Lastly her piety she feares the Lord Verse 30. which is a corner stone in this building the foundation of all what good she doth is in obedience vnto God and will be constant in doing till the Lord leaue commanding Vide The lasting Iewell but of this I haue spoken enough already vpon another occasion in explaining the two last verses of this Chapter Who hath or can finde such a vertuous woman her selfe is portion enough she passes her waight in gold her dwelling is a representation of heauen O happy man and therefore happy because husband to such a wife who brings ioyfull content to his heart delight to his eyes glory to his head and helpes him keepe a continuall feast Adam might haue had a garden no Paradise without Eue man is imperfect without a wife vnhappy without a good one what the heauens haue bin thought to be aboue him and his soule within him that a vertuous wife is indeed about him like well-tuned Virginals her life is perfect Musicke no harsh sounds nor iarring strings on her brest if she intreat it is with humility if she complaine it is with teares if she chide it is with smiles how can she displease whose harmelesse thoughts are still intent to please he hath put off nature that finds no content in such a Turtle not to acknowledge such a helper argues want of grace let him seeke her that wants one let him mourne that hath lost one let him praise her that enioyes one so much is implyed in the Text. Her husband also he praises her saying Many daughters haue done vertuously but thou excellest them all The words are a conclusiue branch of the Prophesie a speech of praise deliuered in the person of an experienst husband and grounded vpon obseruation Deuiding themselues into A Commendation and A Comparison Commendation of vertuous daughters with their number Many daughters haue done vertuously Comparison wherein one so qualified is preferred to all But thou excellest them all Daughters carry their duty in their name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A radicae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A disicare the word in the Originall springs from a root which signifies A building or to build and may yeeld vs a twofold instruction First that euery vertuous daughter is a building and therefore in the creation of woman it is said that the Lord built her of the ribbe as men vse to doe stately houses faire strong Gen. 2.22 and well-seated for their delight and profit without which they cannot well be VVhat Tisaphernes Lieutenant to the Persian King spake once of Alcybiades comparing him to a faire house of pleasure Plul. in vit Aleybiades See the Prophets prayer Psal 144.12 is truely verified of a vertuous daughter she is a building both delightfull and fruitfull Compared for statelinesse and profit to a Merchants ship Prov. 31.14 Now in all buildings we may obserue cost comelinesse and vse no lesse in vertuous daughters comely they are to the eye many wayes beneficiall and they want no cost will spare none or else none should be spared for their good they are the Lords building Psa 122.3 like Ierusalem a house that is compact together at vnity in it selfe not like the dropping house Pro. 19.13.27.15 mentioned in the Prouerbes but like our Sauiours house built vpon a rocke Math. 7 24 which proues a constant defence for the owner against the boistrous winds of violent assaults and the scorching Sun-shine of alluring temptations for outward structure of seuerall parts in order for inward furniture gifts and graces of the mind admirable obserue and see the foundation turrets windowes doores inner-chambers all hanged with rich iewels of intellectuall vertues and diuine graces and you will say This onely deserues the name of None such no building to the sight so pleasant none for vse so profitable as this liuing Spirabile Coelum Bodin li. 1. c. 4. mouing speaking Tabernacle I might stay you ouer-long in the Entry should I stand to vnuaile the whole Fabricke you may admire the rest by what you see a farre off I dare but point to it and passe away excellency in any workemanship calles for an exact or no description lest fruitlesse haste should eclipse the praise and glory of the Workeman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secondly euery vertuous daughter is and must be a builder we haue seene what she is idle she may not be her name implies such action as tends to perfection a builder she is first to her decayed parents by vpholding the credit of an ancient family by renewing and continuing their name and nature with posterity by repairing the breach age hath made in the ruinous houses of their bodies with a timely supply of all their wants Pro. 23.22 a vertuous daughter makes old parents

A VVEDDING-RING FITTED TO THE FINGER OF EVERY PAIRE THAT HAVE OR SHALL MEETE IN THE FEARE OF GOD OR THAT DIVINE CIRCLE OF HEAVENLY LOVE WHEREIN man and wife should walke all their dayes THE POSIE WHEREOF IS AN expression of A good Husbands Kindnesse towards his vertuous wife with her retaliacion of like affection LONDON Printed by ELIZ. ALLDE for EDWARD BLOVNT 1632. To my worthy and much honoured friends M aster William Hackwill Esquire one of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace for the Countie of Buckingham with his truely vertuous and religious Bedfellow Mistris Elizabeth Hackwill the dew of Heauen and fatnesse of the Earth Grace and Peace bee multiplied in Iesus Christ WOrshipfull and right dearely beloued I haue often sought opportunitie to salute you ioyntly acknowledging my selfe your debtor many wayes which is more vnable to satisfie any it was the griefe of Darius that he should die indebted to his friend which departing he bewayled as his last not his least mis-hap hauing receiued a courtesie hee should not liue to requite it if such an acknowledgement may not goe in part of payment I might despaire hauing receiued many from you both while J liued neere you as since my remouall at your motion into these parts distance of place hath not stopt the current of affection nor absence begot obliuion and yet find my selfe able to doe no more onely this is my comfort Good-will hath not beene wanting if abilitie answered desire you should find me as readie to pay as to confesse J would not faigne a debt to encrease it the propertie of insinuating flatterie neither would I denie it where it is due the guise of seruile basenesse iudging it better thus to publish my owne pouertie then to be censured as vngratefull or of my friends forgetfull Preaching at the Marriage of Mr. Iohn Berrie Occasion lately directed my meditations vpon this subiect wherein the mutuall happinesse of your choyce did often present it selfe vnto my thoughts the matter and manner of handling If the testimonie of an experienst friend may be thought impartiall applying it selfe most fully fitly to you both that I could not forbeare to impart it as a messenger of thankfulnesse no worke of worth except you bee pleased by acceptation to make it worth perusing here you may read your selues and be stir'd vp to blesse God the maker of Marriages for his good prouidence in your meeting here you may see that Wedding-ring which you both put on in conceit and resolution at the Marriage-day that Diuine Circle or heauenly round of heartie reflecting-loue wherein you doe and all married persons should moue during life to account of their owne vertuous mates as excelling others am I deceiued or experience hath taught mee what I haue written no more neither may I speake what I haue seene and obserued of your happinesse in this kind liue long more happy it is lawfull to pray as Ioab for Dauid 2. Sam. 24.3 The Lord your God adde vnto it an hundred-fold that your eyes may see it the Lord increase your content daily and double the portion of the sauing graces of his Spirit vpon you both otherwise I cannot steed you prayers you shall not want while I remaine From my studie in Barstaple Ianuary 1. 1630. W. CROMPTON A VVEDDING-RING FITTED TO THE FINGER of euery Paire that haue or shall meete in the feare of God PROVERBS 31.29 Many-daughters haue done vertuously but thou excellest them all FRom the tenth verse of this Chapter to the end thereof Reuerend right Worshipfull and all dearely beloued you haue and at leasure may read an Artificiall Wedding-song or a diuine Hymn describing and commending Marriage with vertuous women pen'd or appointed as may be probably conceiued to be said or sung at Solemne meetings especially vpon such occasions euery verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew Alphabet in order from the beginning to the end composed much after the maner of those Pshalmes of degrees with Rhethoricall gradations Psal 110.121.122.123.124.125 c. partly they might be more sweetly vttered either in parts by many or altogether by one to the greater content of the speaker profit of the hearer and delight of both partly the matter therein contained might be with more case remembred and longer retained In it selfe it is a Prophesie containing much good counsell therefore called if I mistake not The Crowne of Solomon Cant 3.11 good Counsell to a King respectiuely about the choyce of a wife is as his Crowne or the Crowne of his Crowne for the consolation of all true hearted subiects and preseruation of the publike-weale Goe forth O ye Daughters of Zion and behold King Solomon with the Crowne wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladnesse of his heart that Crowne I take to be this Prophesie wherein as out of a sparkling Diamond you may see the reflecting image of true beauty and read both the worke and worth of a good woman and fitly may it he called a Crowne euery wife thus qualified is a Crowne to her husband saith Solomon elsewhere Prou. 12 4. her vertues graces are as so many Rubies or glittering Pearles of great price which doe well become and adorne a Crowne Goe forth therefore O ye Daughters of Zion and behold Solomon with his Crowne whereon we find this Posie ingrauen as with a pen of iron in letters of gold neuer to be forgotten The price of a vertuous woman is farre aboue Rubies Take notice first of her fidelity Verses 11 ● the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her free from those boisterous stormes of iealousie and distracting cares about house-hold affaires whereby others are tost day and night he rests himselfe in quiet repose like a shippe at Anchor in the calme harbour knowing his wife will answere her trust being neuer idle nor ill imployed Secondly of her industry shee seeketh wooll Verse 13. and flaxe and worketh willingly delayes not till materialls inuite her but sends seekes her thoughts preuent occasion her hands and eyes contend with time she doth those things freely which others may doe constrained through feare or necessity Thirdly of her vigilancy Verse 15. she rises while it is yet night diligence expels drowsinesse and teaches good wiues to remoue darknesse by an artificiall Sunne that the goodnesse of God in the approaching-light may be opportunely met not meritoriously matcht with some good worke of theirs weakenesse I know tyes many but sloth more too long in bed lazie humours are best purged by early rising Fourthly of her charity she stretcheth forth her hands to the poore and needy Verse 20. like some pleasant riuer she feeds and clothes the neighbouring valleies which through the heat of cruelty or the cold of pouerty were ready to pine away hungry bellies and naked armes are the subiect of her meditation it is not enough others know her to be good