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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	anger_n	angry_a	just_a	1,601	5	7.4510	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68830	St. Pauls threefold cord vvherewith are severally combined, the mutuall oeconomicall duties, betwixt husband. wife. parent. childe. master. servant. By Daniel Touteville Pr. to the Charterhouse.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1635 (1635)	STC 24396.5; ESTC S101650	102,232	490

way comparable to a Childe Adam called his first begotten Cain which signifies a Possession as if his chiefest and onely treasure and yet hee was then Lord of the whole World had consisted in him Cornelia the wife of Paulus Aemilius Patric Sen. de Repub. lib. 4. when a certaine Lady of Campania that was come to visite her having bragged sufficiently of her sumptuous Robes and precious Ornaments desired in the end to have a sight of hers shee sent immediately for her children who being come Behold said shee these are the Iewels and Gemmes in which I most delight In a word all worldly things are nothing to the comfort of a childe God had endowed Abraham with honor health and victory hee had enlarged his substance encreased his Flockes and multiplied his Heards Gen. 15.2 he stood possest with Gold and Silver in great abundance yet all this he accounted nothing because hee wanted Children His speech imports no lesse O Lord God saith hee what wilt thou give mee seeing I goe Childlesse as if for a Childe hee would willingly have relinquished all those other blessings Iohs patience stood as immoveable as the Centre of the earth notwithstanding the news of much stern disaster did without any intermission assault his eares with the various reports of sad events For though one came to him first and told him that as his Oxen were ploughing and his Asses feeding in their places the Sabaeans by violence drove thē all away then another even while his fellow was yet speaking that Fire from heaven had consumed all his Sheepe Afterwards a third in like manner that the Chaldeans had faln upon his Servants with the edge of the sword as one scarce sensible of the losse hee did not shrinke a whit under the burden but as soone as the last messenger had related unto him the tragicall destruction of his children hee then rent his cloathes and shaved his head and lying groveling upon the grou●d he filled the Aire with cries and lamentations The like subject did produce in Psammeticus king of Aegypt a quite contrary effect for being vanquished by Cambises King of Persia and spying first his daughter by and by his Sonne among those who by the appointment of the Conquerour were led to death hee stood stone-still and uttered not a word but at length perceiving one that onely was an attendant upon his person in the troupe hee mourned bitterly and being afterwards demāded the reasō of so preposterous a griefe his answer was that the two first disasters did admit no character onely the last found Teares for an expression And indeed many Accidents doe farre surmount our best ability to beare them Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent Slight cares will speake when great ones have n● tongue But to passe by this wee may see by these Examples that Parents should not any way provoke or hurt those whom Nature teacheth them continually to cheare and cherish Other Reasons there are and forcible enough to keepe them from provoking their Children unto Anger Pro. 16.32 1. The wisest and ablest men have found it a thing of no small difficulty so to suppresse this passion as that it might not hurry them into sinne Ionas was a Prophet a great Prophet and appointed to preach to Niniveh the great City yet being but a little provoked by God himselfe and that no otherwise than in his owne erroneous and weake imagination grew presently so impatien● that hee did not sticke to tell him to his face that he was angry yea angry with him to the very death David was a meeke man a man after Gods owne heart yet by the provocation of the Amalekites hee was so mightily incenst that never any Nero could have parallell'd those bloody outrages which hee did act in prosecuting their presumption Much lesse then shall Children bee able to stifle in their bosomes Hor. Epist 2. lib. 2. the fiercenesse of this fury 2. Our anger towards them is a maine occasion of Gods anger towards us For with what judgement wee judge we shall be judged and with what measure wee mete it shall bee measured to us againe Hee that is angry with his brother unadvisedly shall be lyable to judgement and shall not hee who unadvisedly and without just cause reviles his children bee the like They be the words of our Saviour himselfe Mat. 5.22 And therefore Fathers 3. Anger in the Brest of Man serves but as a Porter to let the Devill in When is it but in a time of tumult and commotion that hee sowes in our hearts the feed of Malice Envy Hatred c and workes us to the acting of his most damnable designes When was it that Cain with a parricidiall Hand put a sad period to his Brothers life but when Rage and Discontent were set enthroned in his Bosome And therefore Parents provoke not your 4. And lastly by provoking them to anger wee hinder in them the operation of the Word It cannot be grafted Iam. 1.21 where this Weed doth grow Yea wee weaken in them the power and successe of prayer For who can lift up a pure hand that hath a muddy heart Let not Fathers then unlesse they desire to deprive their Children of eternall happinesse provoke them to anger Again Children must learn from hence to fashion their minds to Patience and with Meeknesse to embrace what ever injuries and indignities are done unto them by their Parents For though cruelty in a father towards his Childe bee a grievous sinne Wrath yet and stubbornenesse in a childe towards his father is a more enormous and prodigious crime Filios non modo reticere parentum iniurias sed etiam aequo animo ferre oportere saith the heathen Orator Children ought not onely to conceale and smother their Parents weaknesses and imperfections but submit themselves with mildnesse likewise to their greatest oppressions Quem ferret si patrem non ferret saith the Comik with whom should a man beare if he should not beare with him that did beget him It is not for Childrē to expostulate w th their Parents in this kinde but yet let their Parents know they shal bee countable for all such harshnes unto God Hee gives the precept and will require the performance Therefore Fathers provoke not your Children Provoke not He doth not say Rebuke not or Correct not your children For both are commanded and required because great is the profit which accrues from both For as touching the first Heare counsell my sonne and receive instruction saith Salomon Pro. 19.20 that thou maist bee wise in thy later end And againe Hee that teacheth his sonne Eoclus 30.3 shall vexe hereby his enemy but shall have cause himselfe to rejoyce in the middest of his Friends Qui non vetat peccare cum potest jubet Not to kill sinne where wee may is to cherish it The Shepheard if hee bee not obeyed at his call sends forth his dogge to fetch the stragling sheep

his sonne a Prince in whom wisdome and valour were so equally poysed that his attempts were never frustrated of their determinate end And so great was the expectation which the people had of his maturer growth that after his death if ever either in forraine or domesticke affaires their designes had miscarried their usuall exclamation was Gietti Sultan Mustapha Sultan Mustapha the onely stay of our hopes is dead and gone Yea the best and the meekest amongst the Ottoman Commanders have alwayes more or lesse beene sicke of this distemper and would therefore never suffer their sonnes to live in Court when once they had attained to yeares of discretion but sent them to governe their Provinces a farre off where they lived under the checke of their Lieutenants generall without whose leave they might not depart thence no not to visite their Father And what can bee more unnaturall Filii gloria patris tri●mphus The very Bryar is esteemed because it bringeth forth a Rose and therefore Fathers provoke not your children This for the first kinde of Provocation The second expresseth it selfe in Deed and that five kinde of wayes 1. By subtracting from them that which of right pertaines unto th●m as by denying thē necessary food rayment and not giving them that education and bringing up which their estates and meanes may conveniently afford And this is an offence so great that the Apostle doth avouch and that boldly whosoever hee bee that is guiltie of it to bee a denier of the Faith and worse than an Infidell 1 Tim. 5.8 But while wee would avoid Charyhdis wee must beware wee light not upon Scilla Many to shunne failing on the left hand are still in the same hazard by leaning too much upon the right and thus doe they that corrupt their children with daintier f●re richer apparell and costlier education than need requireth And indeed this age of ours is sicke rather of this than of severity That which was said of old may justly bee retorted upon us Vtinam liberos nostros non ipsi perderemus O that wee were not our selves the bane and breake-necke of our childrens happinesse Wee undermine their very infancy with pleasures That soft and wanton education which wee call indulgency weakneth the sinewes both of minde and body What will not he desire being growne to riper years who hath beene clad in Scarlet from his very Cradle Nondum prima verba exprimit Quintil. lib. 1. coccum intelligit He can hardly speake and yet hee apprehends the fairest clothing and the choycest Meates Ante palatum eorum quàm os iustituimus Wee train them up more to taste than to talke and hence it hapneth that for the greatest part they prove like Adonijah faire it may bee but wondrous faultie 2. Parents may provoke their Children in Deed by using them harshly and unkindly when they come to bee of riper yeares For then they should bee pleased to make them sharers in whatsoever they enjoy Artobarzanes King of Cappadocia Val. Max. lib. 5. cap. 7. as soone as his sonne had attained to mans estate that hee might see him equally ranked with himselfe took the Diadem from off his own head and in the sight of C● Pompeius set it upon his And surely it should be the delight of parents to see themselves parallell'd yea and surpast in any virtuous abilities and endowm●nts by those of the●r own body 3. Their rigorous and unjust dealing in matching them as when they enforce them contrary to their own liking to marry where they thin●e good or restraine them from marrying where they would themselves no withstanding that God have called them thereunto and that the object of their choyce is such as cannot but out of wilfull stubbornnesse be any way rejected is likewise a provoking of them one way to Incontinency an other to discontent 4. Parents provoke their children when being transported with some head-strong and immoderate passion they breake forth into violence and fall upon them even for surmised errours with bitternesse and excesse not weighing what Reason might suggest but yeelding wholly to their owne unbridled rage and in this manner also was Saul injurious unto Ionathan when he darted at him with a Speare to hi● him and that for no other cause than taking upon him the defence of Dav d his innocent and absent friend For Ionathan hereupon arose from the Table in a great anger saith the Text and did eate no meate the second day of the moneth as being sorry for David and that his Father had reviled him Parents therefore provoke not your Children Correct them not either unjustly or immoderately Vnjust correction I call that which is not groūded upon a lawfull cause Againe Immoderate when the greatnes of the punishment transcends the grievousnesse of the crime A thing prohibited even by divine authority If the wicked Deut. 25.3 saith the Lord bee worthy to be beaten the Iudge shall cause him to lie downe and bee beaten before his face according to his trespasse unto a certaine number They which are under our government are not to bee punished according to our lust and pleasure but proportionably as the nature of their transgression shall require I pray thee said Plato to Speusippus doe thou correct my servant for I am angry It must bee done even to the greatest malefactors with the spirit of milden●sse not of madnesse of love and lenity not of choller and severity Antiquity feigned that the Chariot of Iustice was alwayes drawne by two aged and decrepit women Pierius Hieroglyph lib. 42. the one whereof had in her hand a sword whose edge was blunted and whose point was broken the other went crouching upon a staffe intimating hereby to us that in punishing such as are under our command wee should never goe but a Criples pace nor strike but with such an Instrument as may not pierce too deepe I cannot therefore but much condemne the tragicall asperity of Marcus Scaurus Lucius Brutus Manlius Torquatus and others who having emptied their Bosomes of all fatherly affection did eyther with their own hands revenge the dere inquencies of their children or at least see it done with their owne eyes Aulus Fulvius a noble Senator had a Sonne whose worth even in the flowre of his youth made him the honour of his equalls and gave the most renowned in the Verge of Rome occasion to expect one that should quickly parallell if not exceed them in their best performances But alas no Plant so hopefull which may not bee blasted in the up-spring Lewd counsell had at length seduced him to side w th Catiline against the common-weal his father having notice of his revolt intercepted him on the way and put him presently to death He might have kept him in hold till the rage of that civill tempest had beene over but hee thought it a greater glory to be counted a cruell Father than a cautious and yet I think there are few so iron-hearted