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[189] ... Nihil in illâ laudabo, niſi quod proprū eſt. S. Ierom ad Princip. And ſo of Paula he ſaith. Nihil laudabimus niſi quod proprium eſt & de puriſſimo ſanctæ mentis fonte profertur. Id. ep. ad Euſtoch. Nam cum omnia opera ſua laudauerit Deus, cœlum, terram &c. vbi ad Hominē vētum eſt, ſolus non videtur eſſe laudatus propter quem omnia generata ſūt. Quæ igitur cauſa eſt, niſi fortè ea, quia alia in ſpecie ſunt, Homo in occulto? quia aliorum Gratia foris, huius intus eſt. Aliorum in Natiuitate, huius in Corde.—Ideo ergò homo non antè laudatur, quia non in forenſi pelle, ſed in interiore Homine antè probandus, ſic prædicandus eſt. S. Ambros. Inſtit. Virg. cap. 3. tom. 1.
[190] 2 Ioh. 1. 1. Hebr. 13. 1. Epheſ. 5. 25.
[191] 1 Theſſ. 5. 13.
[192] Mark. 14. 9. Pſal. 112. 6.
[193] Gen. 23. 2. Ioh. 11. 33, 35. 1 King. 14. 13. 1 Theſ. 4. 13. Eccleſ. 22. 11, 12 & 38. 16, 17.
[194] Act. 8. 2. 2 Chron. 32. 33.
[195] Iam. 5. 10. Hebr. 12. 1. & 13. 7. 1 Cor. 11. 1.
[196] 1 Sam. 2. 30. Deut. 26. 19. Ioh. 12. 26. Eſai. 8. 13. Timor Hominis, Dei Honor eſt. Tert. de Pœnit. c. 7
[197] Tho. Aquin. 22. q. 103. a. 1. ad 3.
[198] Pſal. 12. 6.
[199] Pſal. 16. 3.
[200] Pſal. 83. 3.
[201] Mal. 3. 17.
[202] 2 Cor. 6. 18,
[203] Cant. 4. 9.
[204] Matth. 12. 50.
[205] Hoſ. 2. 19.
[206] Cant. 2. 10.
[207] Cant. 2. 14.
[208] Cant. 2. 13.
[209] Cant. 6. 10.
[210] Prou. 5. 19.
[211] Ezek. 24. 16. Eccleſ. 36. 22.
[212] Gen. 2. 18. Eccleſ. 36. 24.
[213] Mal. 2. 14.
[214] Eccleſ. 36. 24.
[215] Prou. 31. 11.
[216] Eccleſ. 26. 3, 23.
[217] Prou. 18. 22.
[218] Eccleſ. 26. 14.
[219] Eccleſ. 26. 15.
[220] Eccleſ. 26. 1.
[221] Eccleſ. 26. 13.
[222] Prou. 31. 23.
[223] Eccleſ. 26. 22.
[224] Prou. 19. 14.
[225] Eccleſ. 40. 19.
[226] Prou. 12. 4. Non annulus, non torques aureus, non monile, ſed Corona. Cartw. in Prou.
[227] Pſal. 21. 3. Eſth. 2. 17
[228] Eccleſ. 25. 10.
[229] Eccleſ. 10. 24.
[230] Eccleſ. 7. 19.
[231] Prou. 31. 10.
[232] Eccleſ. 26. 14. 15.
To Her Children ſhee ſhall be Commended; becauſe by her they haue a place of Refuge[235]; by Her they haue good meanes to bring and continue true Honour vpon them[236], and if They (the Fruit) be a great Bleſſing[237] (as it is to haue Iſſue by ſuch a One) what is the Root that beareth it[238]?
But I muſt haſten: How ſhall ſhe be Praiſed in reſpect of her Parents? euen as Rachel[239] for doing ſeruice to them as to her Maſters (the true propertie of one that feareth the Lord[240].) In reſpect of her kindred by mariage, as Ruth, louing them[241], Dealing kindly with them[242], and Cleauing vnto them[243]. And in reſpect of her kindred by bloud, as Eſther, who did the Commandement of Mordecay when ſhe was a Queene, like as when ſhe was brought vp with Him[244], who was exceedingly grieued at his Griefe[245], and procured the Enlargement and Deliuerance of her kindred with her Feaſts[246], her Teares[247], and the Hazard of her Life[248].
In regard of her Seruants alſo, ſhe ſhall be commended becauſe ſhe Buildeth her Houſe[249]: Shee is like the Merchants ſhip, She fetcheth her food from farre[250], She giueth meat to her Houſhold[251], She cloatheth them all with Scarlet[252], and Shee looketh ſo well to their waies[253], that As the Sunne when it ariſeth in the high Heauen; So is her beautie in the Ordering of her Houſe[254].
Laſtly, becauſe all the Eſſentiall Glory and Faireneſſe, which is to bee found in the whole Church, The Woman cloathed with the Sunne[255], as that of Iuſtification & Sanctification &c. belongs to euery Member of the Church[256], and cōſequently to euery Woman fearing the Lord, therefore to Gods people ſhe ſhall be commended, as one of the Hands of the Church dropping with ſweet ſmelling Mirrhe[257]: as the Curtaines of Salomon[258]; As a Lilly among thornes[259]; A Garden incloſed: A Spring ſhut vp. A Fountain ſealed[260].
