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Bathsheba's instructions to her son LemuelBathshebaes instructions to her sonne Lemuel
Bathsheba's instructions to her son Lemuel containing a fruitful and plain exposition of the last chapter of the Proverbs. Describing the duties of a great-man, and the virtues of a gracious woman. Penned by a godly and learned man, now with God. Perused, and published for the use of Gods church, by John Dod, and William Hind.Bathshebaes instructions to her sonne Lemuel containing a fruitfull and plaine exposition of the last chapter of the Prouerbs. Describing the duties of a great-man, and the vertures of a gracious woman. Penned by a godly and learned man, now with God. Perused, and published for the use of Gods church, by Iohn Dod, and William Hinde.
London: printed by John Beale for Roger Jackson, 1614London: printed by Iohn Beale for Roger Iackson, 1614
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the 6. and 7. verses she proveth by the contrary, that wine is not to be given to Kings, and Princes, because it is to be given to those that are ready to perish, and to such as are heavy in mind, to those that are employed in judgement rather then to Judges, rather to the afflicted then to such as live in all plenty, and abundance.
In the 6. and 7. verses shee prooueth by the contrary, that wine is not to bee giuen to Kings, and Princes, because it is to be giuen to those that are ready to perish, and to such as are heauy in minde, to those that are employed in iudgement rather then to Iudges, rather to the afflicted then to such as liue in all plenty, and aboundance.
Hereof was that laudable custom among the people of God, that a man dying, his friends should be by others invited to a banquet, and that there should be given them a cup of consolation Jer. 16. far otherwise then now is used amongst us, whereas the widows that are overcharged with grief for the death of their husbands, do make a banquet to their neighbours, ⟨p. 16⟩and kinsfolk, hereof also (it may be) came that custom, of making those drink, which are going to execution, both among us, and among the people of God, as may be gathered by the story of the sufferings of Christ: where it may be demanded, why Christ refused to drink wine,1 when it was offered, contrary to that, which the holy ghost doth here command by Bathsheba. The answer is, that for the same ca•se Christ refused to drink wine, for the which it is here commanded; least forgetting the torments and pains which he suffered for us, he should not pay the just prize of our sins. Wherefore that he might remember us, he would forget himself, neither would he give himself liberty to drink wine, before the punishment due unto our sins, was quite taken away and satisfied, which ought to teach us, that we ought for the good of our neighbour, to abstain from wine,