FOOTNOTES:

[233] Eccleſ. 26. 1.

[234] Eccleſ. 36. 23. Sine Muliere igitur Homo non habet Laudem, in Muliere prædicatur, &c. S. Ambros. Inſtit. Virg. cap. 3. tom. 1.

[235] Prou. 14. 26. & 11. 22.

[236] Deut. 5. 29. Pſal. 112. 2.

[237] Pſal. 127. 3.

[238] Pſal. 128. 3.

[239] Gen. 29. 9.

[240] Eccleſ. 3. 7.

[241] Ruth. 4. 15.

[242] Ruth. 1. 8.

[243] Ruth. 1. 14. & c. 2. 11

[244] Eſth. 2. 20.

[245] Eſth. 4. 4.

[246] Eſth. 4. 16.

[247] Eſth. 8. 3.

[248] Eſth. 4. 11, 16.

[249] Prou. 14. 1.

[250] Prou. 31. 14.

[251] Prou. 31. 15.

[252] Prou. 31. 21.

[253] Prou. 31. 27.

[254] Eccleſ. 26. 16.

[255] Reuel. 12. 1.

But when ſhall ſhee haue all this Praiſe and of whom? Not by and by, nor of Euery one [261], for Praiſe is not comely in the mouth of euery one, of euery ſcoffing Iſhmael.

II.
When ſhe ſhall be Praiſed.

But firſt of the Time.

Many when they heare a Promiſe (and a Promiſe I told you at firſt, this is) thinke to haue it by and by; but they marke not, that a Promiſe and the Fruition of it is not all at once. It muſt be waited for [262], eſpecially this Promiſe of Praiſe: Vntill the Lord come (as the Apoſtles limit the Time) and then, at his Appearing, ſhe ſhall haue praiſe of God[263]. Then at his Appearing[264], Her Faith ſhall be found vnto Praiſe and Honour, and Glory. Therefore in the mean while, beſt for her to Feare the Lord, and ſo be praiſe-worthy, than to be praiſed for the preſent.

1. Not only becauſe it is ſafeſt praiſing Her as a Maſter of a ſhip is (ſaith S. Ambroſe[265]) when ſhe is ſafely arriued in the Hauen, paſt all danger of ſhipwracke: or growing more proud by her praiſe (which many Liuing doe) as Herod for one [266], and that Philoſopher for another, whoſe ſoule being before no bigger than a mans finger, became ſo puft vp and ſwolne with others commending him, that (as Arrianus reports) it grew greater than two Cubits [267].