Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	lord_n	1,414	5	3.7128	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14467	The schoole of beastes; intituled, the good housholder, or the oeconomickes. Made dialogue-wise, by M. Peter Viret, translated out of French into English, by I.R.; Metamorphose Chrestienne. Part 2. English	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; I. B., fl. 1585.	1585 (1585)	STC 24783; ESTC S105385	24,536	72

would haue those with whom they haue to doe should be perfect at the first dashe and that they shoulde knowe in one day or in one moneth that which they cannot vnderstande them selues in a yeere There are also many fathers the fault of fathers and mothers tovvardes their children whiche make their children to dispayre because they presse and charge them aboue measure and require of them more then they are able As also to the contrary there are others which haue not such care and diligence to teach their children as they ought nor to keepe them vnder good discipline but let them haue so much their wil that they are quite marred and spoyled Ierome And therefore we shall haue iust occasion to sende the first to the schoole of the sea-kyne For they are more calues then the kyne and bullockes I say asmuch of the maisters of schools which know not to teach their scholers by good methoode and order As touching the other which endeuour thē selues nothing at all to teach their children I sende them vnto the schoole of the Crocodiles Crocodile if that beaste were not so cruel But yet neuerthelesse take away the crueltie yet she declareth that she wil not suffer her yong-ones except they haue courage and except they will robbe and steale And therefore the mother kylleth him which at his first going foorth he neither stealeth nor deuoureth eyther a frogge or a snayle or some litle grasse or some other such thing which commeth before him On the contrary she loueth the coragious and loueth them as Plutarke saith not with a foolishe affection as the foolishe mothers doe but thorow iudgement as the most wysest of the worlde haue vsed to do Although that that crueltie of the Crocodile is to be dispised yet neuerthelesse this is to be praysed that the mother is not so foolishe ouer her yong-ones that she supporteth them if they be other then they ought to be according to their kinde But we haue spoken sufficiently of the nature of beastes vpon the matter of good and euil housholders It nowe remaineth that we make an ende of this matter except Theophrastus wil say anoother thing for the confirmation hereof The instruction of saint Paull vnto fathers and mothers Theophrast I haue no other thing to say at this time but that Saint Paul geueth a very good rule vnto fathers and mothers vnto al those whiche haue charge of children yea in a fewe wordes when he sayde Ephe. 6.4 Ye fathers prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lorde And in another place Collo 3.21 ye fathers prouoke not your children to anger least they be discouraged By these words he geueth the fathers and mothers wel to vnderstande what moderation they ought to vse towardes their children aswell to the ende they be not altogether discouraged and in dispaire as also to the ende they mar thē not thorow to great libertie For when he admonisheth them to bring thē vp in instructiō informatiō and correction he geueth them to vnderstād that they ought not to bring thē vp in idlenesse and to let them doo what they list but to holde and kepe them vnder feare and correction Whereupon we haue to note that he sayth not onely bring them vp in instruction information but he addeth of the Lorde For there be agreat many whiche are very good housholders for to cause their children to learne siences artes and occupations for to become of some good countenaunce in the worlde and for to get them great honours and riches or at the least wise howe to get their liuing But they make none accompt to bring them vp in the feare of God and in the trewe knowledge of him and his worde without which as we haue alredie saide from the beginning that men are more beasts thē the brute beasts And therefore he that wil shewe him selfe a good housholder and a good father hauing trew care of his childrē must begin there For it is not written without cause Psal 111.10 Pro. 1.7.9.10 Galoa 1.16 That the feare of the Lorde is the beginning the foundation and head of al wisedome and he can neuer faile to do well please God which doth feare him And as touching that which Ierome sayde of the Crocodile there are many which follow her example and many more then is needefull The children of the Crocodile For if their children be not cruell and rauenors as they are they thinke them not to be their lawfull children but disauowe and forsake them as though they were not of their blood But we must not require of our children that they may be like vnto vs in our vices but that they we may be trewly reformed after the image of God and that we may rule al our life after the rule that he hath set foorth vnto vs in his worde Ierome Behold a verie good conclusion vpon which I thinke that Toby wil willingly stay him selfe with vs. Tobias I shoulde doe wrong if I shoulde resist it FJNJS