Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...

And Ruth the Moabitesse said unto Naomi, I pray thee let me goe into the field, and gather eares of Corne &c.

Herein two excellent Grace•• appear•• in Ruth.

First, Obedience; she would not goe to gleane, without the leave of her Mo∣ther in law. Verily I say unto you, I have not found so much dutie, no, not in natu∣rall Daughters to their owne Mothers. How many of them now-adayes, in mat∣ters of more moment, will betroth and contract themselves, not onely without the knowledge and consent, but even a∣gainst the expresse Commands of their Parents?

Secondly, see her Industrie, that she would condescend to gleane. Though I thinke not, with the Iewish Rabbins, that Ruth was the Daughter to Eglon, King of Moab; yet no doubt she was descended of good Parentage, and now see, faine to gleane. Whence we may gather, that those that formerly have had good birth, 〈1 page duplicate〉〈1 page duplicate〉

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and breeding, may afterward be forced to make hard shifts to maintaine themselves. Musculus was forced to worke with a Weaver, and afterwards was faine to delve in the Ditch, about the Citie of Strasburgh; as Pantalion in his Life. Let this teach even those whose veines are washed with generous bloud, and a••teries quickned with Noble spirits, in their pros∣peritie to furnish, qualifie, and accommo∣date themselves with such Gentile Arts, and liberall Mysteries, as will be neither blemish nor burthen to their birth, that so if hereafter God shall cast them into povertie, these Arts may stand them in some stead, towards their maintenance and reliefe.