The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Of the Mother another Duty is more specially to be¹ observed, that she nurse the Child. Holy women have always reckoned this to belong unto them. ^kSarah a great Princess, maketh no doubt, but that having a Child, she was to give it suck: Who would have said to ABRAHAM, SARAH shall certainly give suck? for I have borne a Sonne.

Of the Mother another Dutie is more specially to bee¹ obserued, that she nurse the Childe. Holy women haue alwayes reckoned this to belong vnto them. ^kSarah a great Princesse, maketh no doubt, but that hauing a Childe, she was to giue it sucke: Who would haue said to ABRAHAM, SARAH shall certainly giue sucke? for I haue borne a Sonne.

1. 1From the Mother to nurse it.
2. kGen. 21. 7.

In like sort ^lAnna is recorded to have given suck to Samuel, as was the common course then of religious and godly Matrons: whereupon the ^mApostle requireth this in the first place, as one of the most special good works, which he would have that woman to be well reported for, that should be associate into the number of Widows, that she have nursed her Children.³