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Author: Bentley, Thomas, student of Gray's Inn.
Title: The sixt lampe of virginitie conteining a mirrour for maidens and matrons: or, the seuerall duties and office of all sorts of women in their vocation out of Gods word, with their due praise and dispraise by the same: togither with the names, liues, and stories of all women mentioned in holie Scriptures, either good or bad ... Newlie collected and compiled to the glorie of God, by T.B. Gentleman.
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Bentley, Thomas, student of Gray's Inn.
[Imprinted at London: At the three Cranes in the Vintree, by Thomas Dawson [and Henry Denham], for the assignes of William Seres], 1582.
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Women in the Bible -- Early works to 1800.
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THE SIXT LAMPE OF VIRGINITIE.
¶ Of Virginitie, and the state of single life, toge∣ther with the dutie of Virgins, of Maids, or single Women.
The dutie of husbands towards their wiues.
These are the ordinances, which the Lord hath commanded betweene a man and his wife. The first institution of matrimonie in paradise.
Of pluralitie of wiues.
The commendation of wedded life, and godlie mariages,
The blessings of God vpon godlie mariages, and his curses vpon the vngodlie espousals.
The prerogatiue of mariage.
The first dutie of new maried folks.
Of consenting to the wiues lawfull or vnlawfull acts, &c.
Of the husbands headship, power or soue∣reigntie ouer the wife.
Of anger and frowardnesse.
Of gelousie.
Of loue and hate.
When to abstaine or forbeare to ac∣companie our wiues.
When and wherefore the husband may lawfullie put awaie his wife, and where not, see in title diuorce.
Of Gods heauie iudgements against wedlocke breakers.
The dutie of wiues towards their husbands.
The dutie of mothers and parents towards their children.
The Daughters and childes duetie to her Parentes.
The office and duetie of Maisters, and Maistresses, or Dames towardes their seruantes and maides.
The dutie of handmaides and seruants to∣wardes their Masters and Dames.
Of diuorcement iudiciall and voluntarie separation, and for what cause a woman may or ought to be diuorced and for what not by Gods worde.
Of Widowes and seconde Marriage.
Of second Marriage.
That widowehood is a plague of God vpon the vngodly, & therfore to the comfort of the godly widows and orphans: let them reade these comfortable sentenses of the scrip∣ture following, gathered to this ende, that therby they seeing what care the Lorde hath ouer them in this their desolate conditi∣on and state, as people least esteemed in the world, may the better attende vnto their vocation in prayer and good workes of the spirite, to the glory of his name, and their perpetuall praise, and euermore fully trust and hang vp∣on his prouidence, whiche neuer decayeth.
The dutie of olde women.
The worthie praise and due commendation of all godly wise women, with their vertuous pro∣perties, and commendable conditions.
The disprayse of wicked and foolishe women.
The description of an Harlotte, and disprayse of an Whore, with Christian and Ghostly exhortations to the Godly, to beware of her poysoned bayte, pestilent properties, and craftie conditions: and not to suffer them selues sottishly to be deceyued by her.
The penal punishmentes, and terrible threatnings of God in his worde, against all sortes of vngodlie women, for their sinnes and wicked∣nesses..
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The seuenth Lampe of Virgi∣nitie. Conteyning the names, actes, and hystories, liues, and deathes, of all manner of women, mencioned in holie Scripture, as well by name as without, with the inter∣pretacion of euery of their names, set foorth in Al∣phabeticall order.
A
B
C
D
D
E
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
V
Here follow the liues and stories of o∣ther women, mentioned in Scripture without name: which for the readier finding out, are set downe according to the Alphabet of the names, of their fathers, mothers, maisters, mistresses, hu∣sbands, diseases, cities, countries, or places where they dwelt, &c.
A
Abelitesse.
Aduoutresse.
B
Bahumitesse.
Woman with blooddy issue.
Diseased woman.
C
Cananitesse.
Cayphas mayde.
E
Witch of Endor.
Woman in a vision.
subpart H
The two harlots of Hierusalem.
The description of an harlot by Salomon.
The description of the great whore or harlot of Babilon By S. Iohn the Euangelist. Whore of Babylon.
I
Of the Virgins of Iabes Gilead, read in Syloe Ieptahs daughter.
Ieroboams wife.
Widow of Ierusalem.
Iobs Wife.
L
The description of the woman called the Lambes wife, or Church of Christ, persecuted by that dragon Antichrist: not vnprofitable to be read of women in trauell, to their comfort and edification, as a lesson in prayer.
Leuites wife.
Lots wife.
M.
Manoahs wife.
Michas mother.
Mourning witches.
Let mothers reade this after the death of their children, espe∣cially newly married, and be comforted.
Machabitesse.
Machabites.
N
Widowe of Nahim.
P
Pathroitesse.
Pharaos daughter.
Philips daughters.
Mayde of Philippi.
Phineas wife.
Pilates wife.
Potiphars wife.
Q
Queene of Saba.
S
Samaritesse.
Samaritesse.
Samaritesse Importunate widowe.
Samsons wife.
Sareptesse.
Sylomitesse.
Shunamitesse.
T
Tekoitesse.
Thebitesse.
V
The ten Virgins.
The names, liues, and actes of cer∣taine other women not mencioned in Scrip∣ture, but gathered out of the third booke of Machabees, and Iosephus, and other autentical Authors, worthy to be read of all godly men and women for the affinitie they haue with some part of the Scripture.
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