The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…

And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab. What was she? for her person she was a good woman; but as all Divines observe of her, she did an action that had appearance of evil, what did she? read the story in the 3 of Ruth, beginning at the 5. verse, &c. the story saith, ⟨p. 127⟩that she came alone at midnight to Boaz, there was an action full of infamy, which was a shameful thing that a woman should come to a man lying alone. Secondly, she came and lay by him in the night season, but it is true, the Scripture clears her for any thing following, vers. 14. And she lay at his feet until morning, and she rose up before one could know another: there was no vanity, no folly, and no evil, yet it was a grievous scandal for a woman to be with a man, and Boaz did fear the scandal of it too; yet such a woman as this is reckoned in the Genealogy of Christ. The fourth woman is Bathsheba, she was unclean with David. What is the Mystery of this? truly all Interpreters give this; There are but four women named in the Genealogy, all of them infamous, and it is recorded that Christ came from these four, to take off the ignominy and infamy of your sins that you have fallen into before Conversion: Suppose God should suffer thee to fall into execrable villainies, real and sound conversion to God takes off the reproach and ignominy; therefore Christ to take off the ignominy and reproach from these women would honour them so far, as to reckon them in his own Genealogy.

And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab. What was she? for her person she was a good woman; but as all Divines observe of her, she did an action that had appearance of evill, what did shee? read the story in the 3 of Ruth, beginning at the 5. verse, &c. the story saith, ⟨p. 127⟩that she came alone at midnight to Bouz, there was an action full of infamy, which was a shamefull thing that a woman should come to a man lying alone. Secondly, she came and lay by him in the night season, but it is true, the Scripture clears her for any thing following, vers. 14. And she lay at his feet untill morning, and she rose up before one could know another: there was no vanity, no folly, and no evill, yet it was a grievous scandall for a woman to be with a man, and Boaz did fear the scandall of it too; yet such a woman as this is reckoned in the Genealogy of Christ. The fourth woman is Bathsheba, she was unclean with David. What is the Mystery of this? truely all Interpreters give this; There are but four women named in the Genealogy, all of them infamous, and it is recorded that Christ came from these four, to take off the ignominy and infamy of your sins that you have fallen into before Conversion: Suppose God should suffer thee to fall into execrable villanies, reall and sound conversion to God takes off the reproach and ignominy; therefore Christ to take off the ignominy and reproach from these women would honour them so far, as to reckon them in his own Genealogy.