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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	good_a	parent_n	1,888	5	8.6795	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01344	Ioseph's partie-colored coat containing, a comment on part of the 11. chapter of the 1. epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians : together with severall sermons, namely, [brace] 1. Growth in grace, 2. How farre examples may be followed, 3. An ill match well broken off, 4. Good from bad friends, 5. A glasse for gluttons, 6. How farre grace may be entayled, 7. A christning sermon, 8. Faction confuted / by T.F.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 11466.3; ESTC S4310	83,852	200

deceased and cannot but be delighted with their Goodnesse let us labour to fashion our selves after their frame and to erect the like vertues in our owne soules Godly Children occasion their Parents to bee called to memory Saint Paul beholding Timothies Goodnesse is minded thereby to remember his Mother and Grand-mother Eunice and Lois they can never bee dead whiles hee is alive Good children are the most lasting monument to perpetuate their Parents and make them survive after death Dost thou desire to have thy memory continued Art thou ambitious to be revenged of death and to out-last her spight It matters not for building great houses and calling them after thy name give thy children godly education and the fight of their goodnesse will furbish up thy memory in the mouthes and minds of others that it never rusts in oblivion Which dwelt first That is which was an Inhabitant in their hearts Faith in temporary Believers is as a Guest comes for a night and is gone at the best is but as a Sojourner lodges there for a time but it dwelleth maketh her constant residence and aboad in the Saints and servants of God Grand-mother Lois and Mother Eunice Why doth not Saint Paul mention the Father of Timothy but as it were blanch him over with silence First it is probable that Saint Paul had not any speciall notice of him or that hee was dead before the Apostles acquaintance in that Family 2. Likely it is he was not so eminent and appearing in Piety the weaker vessell may sometimes be a stronger vessel of honour yea the Text intimateth as much Act. 16.1 Behold a certaine Disciple was there named Timotheus the sonne of a certaine woman which was a Iewesse and beleeved but his Father was a Greeke Let women labour in an holy Emulation to excell their husbands in Goodnesse it is no trespasse of their modesty nor breach of the obedience they vowed to their husbands in marriage to strive to bee Superiours and above them in Piety 3. Eunice and Lois the Mother and Grand-mother are onely particularly mentioned because deserving most commendation for instructing Timothy in his youth as it is in the Chap. 3. ver. 16. Knowing of whom thou hast learned them and that from a Child thou hast knowne the Holy Scriptures For the same reason the names of the Mothers of the Kings of Iudah are so precisely recorded for their credit or disgrace according to the goodnesse or badnesse of their sonnes Let Mothers drop instruction into their children with their milke and teach them to pray when they beginne to prattle Though Grace bee not entayled from Parent to Child yet the Children of goldy Parents have a great advantage to Religion yea that five-fold 1. The advantage of the promise yea though they come but of the halfe blood much more if true borne on both sides if one of their Parents bee godly 1 Corinth 7.14 For the unbeleeving Husband is sanctified by the unbeleeving Wife and the unbeleeving Wife is sanctified by the Husband else were your Children uncleane but now they are holy 2. Of good Precepts some taught them in their Infancy so that they can easier remember what they learned then when they learned it Gen. 28.19 For I know Abraham that hee will command his children and his Houshold after him to feare the Lord 3. Of good Presidents Habent domi unde discant whereas the children of evill Parents see daily what they ought to shun and avoyd these behold what they should follow and imitate 4. Of Correction which though untoothsome to the palat to taste is not unwholsome to the stomacke to digest 5. Of many a good prayer and some no doubt steept in teares made for them before some of them were made Filius tantarum lachrymarum non peribit said Saint Ambrose to Monica of Saint Augustine her son Disdaine thou then out of an holy pride to bee the vitious sonne to a vertuous Father to bee the prophane Daughter of a pious Mother but labour to succeed as well to the lives as to the Livings the Goodnesse as the Goods of the Parents Yea but may the Children of bad Parents say This is but cold comfort for us and they may take up the words of the Souldiers Luke 3.14 And what shall wee doe First if thy Parents be living conceive not that their badnesse dispenceth with thy duty unto them thou hast the same cause though not the same comfort with good children to obey thy Parents this doe labour to gaine them with thy conversation It was Incest and a fowle sinne in Lot to bee Husband to his Daughters and beget children on them but it would bee no spirituall Incest in thee to be Father to thy Father to beget him in grace who begat thee in nature and by the Piety and Amiablenesse of thy carriage to be the occasion by Gods blessing of his Regeneration and what Samuel said to the people of Israel 1 Sam. 12.23 God forbid that I should sinne against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you so God forbid thou shouldest ever leave off to have thy knees bended and thy hands lifted up for the conversion of thy bad Father Moreover labour more especially to shun and avoyd those sinnes to which thy Father was addicted and chiefly such sinnes the Inclination whereto may depend from the temper and constitution of the body so that a pronenesse thereto may in some sort seem to be intayled to Posterity Was thy Father notorious for wantonnesse strive then to be noted for chastity was hee infamous for Pride Labour thou to be famous for Humility And though thou must not be dejected with griefe at the consideration of the badnesse of thy Parents yet mayest thou make a Soveraigneuse thereof to bee a just cause of Humiliation to thy selfe If thy Parents bee dead and if thou canst speake little good of them speake little of them What Sullennesse did in Absolon 2 Sam. 13.22 Hee spake to his Brother Amnon neither good nor bad Let Discretion do in thee seale up thy lips in silence say nothing of thy Parents He is either a Foole or a mad man who being in much company and not being urged thereunto by any occasion will tell others My Father lyes in the Fleet my Father lyes in Prison in the Counter More witlesse is hee who will speake both words Vncharitable and Vnnaturall concerning the finall estate of his Father in an eternall bad condition And I am perswaded there is a three-fold kind of Perswasion whereby one may be perswaded of good in another man 1. The perswasion of Infallibility and this onely God hath Act. 5.18 Knowne unto God are all his workes from the beginning of the World hee alone searcheth and tryeth the hearts and reines And they also have it to whom God immediately reveales it Thus Ananias knew that Paul was a true servant of God after it was revealed to him Act. 9.15 For hee is a chosen