Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-01-10
nj l S C E IL A N Y.
A QUAINT SERMON.

The following is from Sermon preached at
Whitehall, befure King JAMES the First, of Eng
land, at the Marriage Of the RICH, Honorable Lord
Hay and his Lady, Jan. 4lh, 1907.
THE TEXT is PRovERBs XXI. l4-"Shee Is Ike
Is merchant ship, she bringefh her food from a.
fare"
''Shee is like ship. &c." "Shee is indeed, and
yet shee IS, and therefore, because she is SO
scarce, it needful TO show no, onely what shee
Is, but also what she is like I'd for how shall hGe
find her that never saw her. that never had her
that scarce heard other; how shall iee find her but
by some sensible resemblance of her and therefore
as Cant. ". when The Church cried her husband
q charge you, SCI shee described him by resem
blance My yell beloved is ,ciite and ,uddic, Sc :
every thing was like something, SO Of the virtuous
woman it is said here that she is like shppe and
Proverbs xii, shee is like a crowne; and in the
Cantices sometimes like rose, sometimes like
lilly, sometimes like spring OF waters. In word i,
she is like to many thingeS but as it is said, verse
TO- Peares and precious stones not ike TO her."
"lf she be good, she is like ship indeed, and to
nothing SO like as to shippe; for she sits at the
sterne, and by discretion by carde and compasse
shapes her course; her counrenaDce and converse
lion are ballased with sobernesse and gravite her
SALES full Of wind, as if some wisdome from a
bove had inspired or bowne upon her; she standeth
in the shrowdes, and casteth out her leade, and
when she hath sounded, she telleh Gas .hiciol did
10 David Of depth and danger If by defaul. she
be grounded, she casteih ont her anchors, Gas Ra-
hab did and by winding of herselfe, shee gets a
floate againe If she spy within her kennng, any
trouble 10 bee nigh, either shee makes forward, if
shee find herself able, else with Piiat's wife she
sets sale away. She commands and countermands
each man TO his charge, some to their tackling,
some 10 the mast, some TO the maine top * slee
and none but shee, caplaine, owner, master of
iho chi and ntcl,n &c hut &c
mate. royalle shippe she is, for the king him
self takes pleasure in her beauty, Psalm xii. and
if shee bee merchants too, then is shee the
chant royal" ''But ofall qualities woman must
not have one quality Of ship and that is too much
rigging. o what a wonder it is to ship under
sale, with her acklings, aud her masts, and her
tops and topgalians, with her upper decks and her
neither decks, and so bedeckt with her s,reames,
flags, and ensigns, and know not what. Yea, but
a world OF wonders II is, TO see woman created In
Gods image, 50 miscIeate ofttimes and defOrmed.
with her French, her Spanish, and her foolish fash
ions, that he that made her, when he lookes upon
her, shall hardly know her, with her p;umes her
fans, and slken wizard, with Tufe like raine
bow. with feather in her cap like a flag in her
top, to tell q thinke) which way the wind will
blow" "iShee is Ike u ship Of merchants there
fore, first to be reckOned Gas wee see) among the
aytie not like a fsherman's boat, not like ST. Pc
tcr's ship, for Christ did call she. apostles .
'Shee is like merchant ship, that is, a friendly
fellow and peaceablo companion 10 him, bit not a
man of war so contend with him For he that made
her never Quilt her for battaile sure shee was built
for pence and rot for ware, for merchants weepe 10
hink0 OF ware therefore, she must not for every
angry word Of her husband betake herself into the
gun-roome straight and there 10 thunder to charge
and discharge Gpon him, with broad swords or as
maTinets say at sea, 10 turn the broade side like
Zipporah the wife Of Moses, to raile upon him.
Thou art indeed bloody husband ; Ekod w
This is.no ship Of merchants, this is the Spite,
thinke," &c. But what rneaneib Solomon by that.
From farre, she bringch her food from n,firrre !?
Surely not to answere that which is proverbally
said. that far fetcht and deare bought is filest fr
ladies, as now daics what groweh at home is
base and honely. and what every one Gates is mea:e
for dogs and wee must have bread from one coun.
tre, and drnke from another, and we must have
meat from Spain, ard sauce out Of Ttalie and if we
weare any thing, 1t mist be pure Yenian, Roman
or Barbarian; but the fashion Of all must be French
and as Seneca saith in another uct tictorib,s
tsgcS dedcr,nt, wee give them the foile, and they
give MS the fashion.