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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	parent_n	see_v	1,442	5	3.9893	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18048	Christ his last vvill, and Iohn his legacy In a sermon preached at Clare in Suffolke, by Bezaleel Carter preacher of the word of God at Canham neere to Saint Edmunds Bury.; Christ his last will, and John his legacy.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 4692; ESTC S117382	37,432	99

called Christians and condemne vs. Nay the dumbe and vnreasonable creatures shall rise vp in iudgment against the men of this generation It is written of the Storkes that they will feede their Sires and carry them about vpon their backes when through age they are vnable to feede themselues or flye How are they worse then Paganish then bestiall that neglect this seruice Secondly consider we the law of nations The ●●eason Zenophon reports of a Law that was amongst Zenophon de dict the men of Athens that if a man were knowne to haue denyed succour to his parents in the time of their want that such an one if hee fell into want should not be succoured no though he dyed through want To which law also I might adde the lawes of other nations it shall suffise to rehearse the words of a learned Expositor vpon the fifteenth of Mathew Musc De legislatore quodā scribitur It is written sayth he of a famous Lawgiuer which enacted many good statutes for repressing many vices and yet enacted no law at all to punish such as should murther father and mother and being demanded his reason he answered because he supposed there was no such execrable and detestable villany to bee found vpon earth that any should be so diuellishly impious as to depriue them of life from whom they had receiued life But those times were golden times and those that liued then are dead now in whose rooms are started vp an vnnaturall brood of patricide some such as haue layed violent hands vpon and shed their parents blood but multitudes of such are as carelesse to relieue their parents wants and if the axiome be true Si non pauisti occidisti these are murtherers yea patricides The vses of this point are diuers First it makes against the Romanists Vse 1 that haue many and diuers wayes sinned against this doctrine and made Gods cōmandement of none effect to maintayne their owne traditions they say that a monasticall kinde of life is an heauenly and angelicall kinde of life so much to be honoured that children proculcatis parentibus euen trampling their parents vnder their feete ought to runne into monasteryes they say that children being once admitted into that order ought to despise father and mother they say that they ought to despise them so farre as not to be present with them vpon their sicke no not vpon their death beds they say that children by their prayers dyrges Masses may profite their dead parents and by these and the like doctrines make childten to east off all care of parents sinke they swim they either they suppose they are not bound to care for them or else they are of opinion that it shall suffise to care for the good of their soules after they are departed this life Secondly this doctrine reproues those that eythet relieue not their parents at all or else doe it after such a niggardly and repining manner that a man shall neuer come where their parents are but he shall heare them cry out like Rebecca that they are weary of their liues or like Ionah it is better for them to dye then to liue the Ezek. 22. 7. world swarmes with such men as Ezekiel speakes of and reprooues such as set light by father and mother such as will as soon condiscend to relieue a vagrant rogue by the high ways side as their owe father mother Now euen now are the dayes come which Paul foretold of in which 2 Tim. 3. 2. men should be vnnaturall vnthankefull The teares that I haue seene trickling downe the cheekes of aged parents and the neglect which I haue seene amongst vngratefull children doe euen force mee and compell me to speake yea and if I feare to speake in so right and iust a cause as this let my right hand rot and my tong cleaue to my iawes Thou vnthankeful vnnatural Impe that wilt not feed thē that haue fed thee nor cloth thē that haue clothed thee how canst thou loue God that thou hast not seen when thou louest not thine owne brother that thou hast seene nay not thine owne father and mother how vnlike art thou to Iesus Christ that cared for and prouided for his mother Yet saith Bellar. was not he so much Christus autē minus de●●●t parentibus suis quam celeri homines suis parentibus debent Bell. de 7. verb. bound to his as thou to thy mother doe thou what thou canst for thy blood thou canst neuer requite the feares cares costs of thy parents ●mo vero sayth the forenanamed author debes tu vitam parentibus thou owest them thy life thy blood Honour thy father quoth Salomon doe it Eccl 7. 27. with thine whole heart see thou forget not thy mothers sorrowes for thou canst neuer recompence what they haue done for thee Christ onely did for hee onely Bellarm. could requite his mother Accepit vnam vitam he tooke but one life viz. his humane life of the virgin his mother but for that one he gaue her three liues Vitam humanam an humane life Vitam gratiae the life of grace Vitam gloriae the life of glory First hee gaue her a humane life when together with the Father and the holy Ghost he created her for hee made all things and without him was made nothing that was made Secondly he gaue her that life of grace in that he quickned and regenerated her by his spirit Thirdly he gaue vnto her also the life of glory in that he dyed for and shed his precious blood for her to the intent that she might not perish but haue life eternal Thus our Sauiour had requited his mother 3. for one but as Salomon sayth thou canst not requite thy parents Christ had done it and more then done it already yet behold hee still cared for his mother thou hast nor canst not requite them and yet leauest them to the wide world to hunger to thirst to cold to nakednesse to sinke to swimme to goe forward to goe backeward Oh how vnlike art thou to Iesus Christ in this in the feare of God let vs learne hereafter by this patterne of patternes to make conscience of this duty Thirdly and lastly this that hath been sayd taxes such children as are so far from Vse 3 relieuing their parents that they rise vp in open hostility against thē oppresse them contend with them and are ready to take occasion by the slenderest hayre to pull them out of house and home Such a beast was Absolom would God there were not thousands such Absoloms amongst vs that had a long time complotted and at the last attempted to depose and dispossesse his owne father but God hung him vp for a spectacle betweene heauen and earth in his owne lockes to the terror of all such gracelesse miscreants God of his mercy grant that this one man hung vp as it were in chaynes may be a terror to others that blend in the same sinne And