The Praise of a Godly Woman

Name: The Praise of a Godly Woman
Author: Gamon, Hannibal

Gamon, Hannibal

Church of England -- Sermons; Funeral sermons -- England; Robartes of Truro, Frances Robartes, Baroness, -1626 -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 17th century

against him; but praising Him, and  |
  praying vnto Him[o], yea (which is  | [Note: II. _The continuance of her
  the proper Act of her Feare) not    | Feare._]
  Louing any sin, but hating and      |
  eschewing all sin[p], not out of a  | [Note l: _Ier. 17. 17. Eccles. 2.
  slauish terrour of punishment; but  | 8._]
  chiefly because it is Sinne, an     |
  Infinite euill; and because an      | [Note m: _Psal. 33. 18. 20.
  Infinite Good God, whom she loueth  | Eccles. 2. 7._]
  (saith Saint _Augustine_) is        |
  offended by it, though she should   | [Note n: _Psal. 115. 11. & 56. 3.
  neuer goe to Hell-fire to be        | Eccles. 2. 9._]
  punished for it[A].                 |
                                      | [Note o: _1 Cor. 10. 10. Psalm.
                                      | 22. 23. Act. 10. 2._]
                                      |
                                      | [Note p: _Exod. 20. 20. Eccles.
                                      | 15. 13. Prou. 8. 13. & 16. 6. 2
                                      | Tim. 1. 7. 1 Ioh. 4. 18. Hos.
                                      | 3. 5. Psal. 97. 10. Ier. 4. 18.
                                      | & 2. 19._]
                                      |
                                      | [Note A:
                                      | _Vero-Christianus--profici[=e]do
  Lastly, in the Scriptures I finde   | perveniet ad talem anim[=u], vt
  Perseuerance or Constancie[q] to be | plus amet Dominum quam timeat
  euer an inseperable Attendant vpon  | Geh[=e]nam: vt etiamsi dicat illi
  her Feare! For she is not one that  | Deus, vtere delicise carnalibus
  hath not yet tasted of this sauing  | sempiternis & quantum potes; pecca,
  Grace, or else not continued in the | nec morieris, nec in Geh[=e]nam
  same; but she is a woman for the    | mitteris, sed mecum tantummodo non
  present, _Timens Dominum, Fearing   | eris; exhorrescat et omnino non
  the Lord_. You shall neuer finde    | peccet, non iam vt in illud quod
  Her otherwise, than (as God would   | timebat non incidat, sed ne illum
  haue her) _In the feare of the Lord | quem sic amat, offendat. De
  all the day long, Prou. 23. Fearing | Catechiz. Rudib. cap. 27. tom. 4.
  and keeping his Commandements       | fol. 912._]
  alwaies, Deut. 4. Doing her Husband |
  Good and not euill all the daies of | [Note q: _Ierem. 32. 39, 40.
  her life_, verse the 12. of this    | Deut. 4. 10. Prou. 23. 17. & 14.
  Chapter.                            | 2. 1 Tim. 2. 15._]
                                      |
  It is true indeed, as Feare is      | [Note r: _Matth. 28. 20 Es. 43.
  opposed to Diffidence, _Luke 1._ So | 1, 2._]
  she serves God without a            |
  Distrustfull Feare all the daies of | [Note s: _Ier. 14. 9. Lam. 3.
  her life; because of Gods           | 22, 23._]
  continuall presence with Her[r],    |
  continuall mercy towards Her[s],    | [Note t: _2 Cor. 12. 9. Es. 26.

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The Praise of a Godly Woman

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