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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	life_n	world_n	2,645	5	4.7733	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81791	Moral instructions of a father to his son upon his departure for a long voyage: or, An easie way to guide a young man towards all sorts of virtues. With an hundred maximes, Christian and moral.; Instruction morale d'un père à son fils. English	Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2455A; ESTC R231963	42,504	123

falling out with you Never praise to an Excess those of whom you speak especially if they are present for altho 't is but what they deserve yet in their very Opinion you will be esteem'd a Flatterer suspecting that the Intent of such excessive Commendations is more to exhibit the Elegancy of your Wit than to manifest the Greatness of their Merit Civility and Complaisance are the Spirits that keep up Society whosoever is void of these is a trouble to all the World whereas he that can make use of them opportunely may boldly flatter himself that his Company will be unacceptable to none However let Reason rule your Com●laisance let it not condescend to what is criminal nor yet to what is base Stubbornness is not only a deadly Enemy to Complaisance but it also acts for the most part contrary to Reason and Sence A Person that is stubborn can never be so happy as to comply with others whereby he falls into the Misfortune of being shun'd by all company and at last becomes a Burden to himself Endeavour therefore to be complaisant with Prudence and firm in your Resolutions with Justice Jeer No body if you would not run the Hazard of being jeer'd in your turn and rendering that Person whom you jeer your Enemy Not but that innocent jesting may be lawfully used in Conversation but the Abuse of it doth not seldom produce Quarrels and Animosities which too often cool the most fervent Affections and rarely do we see Raillery carry'd on without some sharp and stinging Expressions Never put off till to morrow what you can do to day Be exact towards all Men and in all things but principally in paying your Debts Observe your measures so rightly that the Presence of your Creditors may not be tedious to you and be always more ready to persuade every Man to take his Due than they to ask it of you In the mean time do not you exact with the utmost Severity what is due to you This would be contrary to the Religion of JESUS CHRIST as also not consistent with that Civility and Condescension which we ow to one another How deform'd soever any Person may be in his Body be sure that you have a great Care not to make it a Subject of Derision and Laughter but rather render thanks to God that he has bin pleas'd to favour you more then him 'T is out of his pure goodness that he has given you all those Advantages of Body and Mind which you possess Why then should you boast of what has bin given you undeservedly The more you have received the more you have to answer for Here my Son I bring you another sort of Neighbour your Domestick Servant I would not have you think that his Quality can discharge you from your Duty towards him The chiefest part of your Duty is to let your Carriage towards him be mild and easie whereby mitigating the Discontent which his hard Fortune might have rais'd in him he may be induc'd to serve you joyfully which if you desire recede so far from the Right of a Master as to come within the Bounds which Christianity prescribes that is consider him as a Brother in God behave your self towards him as such and then you need not question but he will become sensible of your Kindness St. Paul saith forbear Threatning How much more ought we to forbear Blows Yet whensoever he gives you a just Cause of Anger be not too apt to listen to those Reasons which condemn him let him rather have cause to praise your Forbearance than to complain of your Rigour Seneca saith if we intend to gain our Servants so far as to make them be entirely devoted to our Service we must behave our selves towards them with all Mildness and Familiarity Make trial of this Counsel and if when all 's done your Servants become not more punctual in performing their Duty you having omitted no part of yours which might tend to their Satisfaction dismiss them quietly without Anger and without Noise I cannot say my Son whether I have not forgot some considerable Point touching your Duty to your Neighbour however if it were so I have this Comfort left That if you do justly put in Practice my Instructions upon this Subject your Neighbour will have no great Reason to complain of you It would tho be a Cause sufficient for you to complain of me if I should conclude these Instructions design'd for the Conduct of your Life without making you sensible that nothing in the World can so much facilitate the Means to practise them as frequent and serious Meditations on Death I do confess 't is of all things the most terrible especially if we behold it in our Worldly Thoughts for then it is more proper to precipitate us into Despair than to inspire us with the Love of Vertue and Piety But it is far from being so full of Terrour to those who behold it with the Eyes of Faith This Divine Vertue which is a true Character of a Christian makes Death appear to us already conquer'd and disarm'd by the Second Adam and sent by him himself as a welcome Messenger to open our Prisons upon Earth and introduce us into a Celestial and Glorious Liberty 'T is true in a State so corrupt and imperfect wherein we now are I believe it is a hard matter for the most Regenerate to suffer the Approaches of Death without some kind of Fear But if once you can force your Weakness to admit of a Familiarity with Death besides the Joy and Comfort you will reap from thence it will change that familiar Habitude into a second Nature and then instead of those vicious and corrupt Inclinations wherein you are born according to the Flesh it will inspire such as are truly vertuous which will be the Signs as well as the Effects of your Spiritual Regeneration My Son be sure you do not procrastinate this Meditation under the Pretext that you are as yet very young A Glass newly blown is not a Jot less brittle than one that has been made several Years A new Ship may be split against the Rocks as soon as an old one and how can you tell Perhaps that very Minute which you employ to drive out of your Mind the Thoughts of Death shall be your last in this World Since therefore this Thing is of such moment and yet so uncertain be always prepar'd Watch and pray for ye know not at what Hour the Lord cometh Repent the Day before you die and as there is no Day in your Life which may not be that of your Death let not so much as one slip without throughly Repenting Live just as you will wish to have liv'd when you are at the Point of Death that is to say religiously soberly and justly This will not only have some Resemblance with the three Blessings I mentioned at the beginning of this Treatise upon your Soul your Person and your Actions but also 't will be