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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	think_v	4,338	5	3.9369	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96914	A word in season: or, an essay to promote good-husbandry in hard and difficult times: being, in part, advice from a gentleman, to his son a tradesman in London. Lately communicated by way of letter		1697 (1697)	Wing W3547C; ESTC R232225	9,118	16

A Word in Season OR AN ESSAY To Promote Good-Husbandry IN Hard and Difficult Times Being in part Advice from a Gentleman to his Son a Tradesman in London Lately communicated by way of Letter Nec quicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit LONDON Printed for Eliz. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall MDCXCVII A Word in Season OR An ESSAY to Promote Good-Husbandry c. THAT great States-man and Lord Treasurer Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's days thought fit to give to his Son these prudent Precepts following among others viz. First says he as touching the Government of your House Let your Hospitality be moderate equal to the measure of your Estate and beware you spend riot above three parts of the four of your Estate and Revenue nor above one third part thereof in your House for the other two thirds will but defray Extraordinaries which always surmount your Ordinary by much for otherwise you shall live like Beggars in continual Want and the needy Man can never live happily nor contented being broke and distracted with Worldly Cares Banish Drunkenness our of your Houses and affect him not that is in love with it for it is a Vice that impairs the Health consumes Wealth and transforms Man into a Beast a Sin of no small rank and ordinary station and that never walks unattended with a train of Misdemeanors at the heels Beware of Surety ship for your best Friend For he that payeth another Man's Debts goeth the way to leave other Men to pay his and seeketh his own overthrow In borrowing of Money be evermore careful of your Word for he that hath a care to keep day of Payment is Lord Commander many times of another Man's Purse Strive not to enrich your self by Oppression or Unlawful Gain for a little evil gotten shall not only melt away it self like Dew before the Sun but likewise shall consume with it self also that which was more lawfully acquired How then shall it melt away in haste when all the whole Lump is corrupted with Injustice and Wrong And also as for such an one if he die rich well he may have Mourners to his Grave but he shall be sure to find few Comforters at his Judgment Be Studious and Industrious in thy Youth knowing that if by thy Labour thou accomplishest any thing that is good the Labour passeth away but the Good remaineth to thy use and comfort and it is less pain to be Studious in Youth than a grief to be Ignorant in thy Age. And as to Society consider that corrupt Company is more infectious than corrupt Air therefore be advised in thy choice If the Good keep company with the Good both are made better if the Evil with the Evil both are made worse for according to the Proverb Such as the Company is such is the Man Strive to subdue thy Appetites and Affections and forbear what-ever is dear unto thy Body being any way prejudicial to thy Soul Live vertuously and honestly that thou mayst die patiently and comfortably for who lives most vertuously will die most willingly Afflict not thy Body with too much unnecessary Physick but furnish thy Mind with Knowledge Vertue and Goodness and so to be prepared for a time of Affliction and time of Exercise And surely that Man's End shall be easie and happy whom Death finds although with a weak Body yet with a strong vertuous and healthful Soul He is worthy to fall who tempts himself and therefore shun the Occasions of Evil and then thou hast half overcome thy Enemy Labour to keep a good Conscience for thy Comforter for he that is disfurnished thereof hath Fear for his Bed-fellow Care for his Companion and the Sting of Guilt for his Torment In all thy attempts let Honesty be thy aim and forget not in thy Youth to be mindful of thy End for though the Old Man cannot live long yet the Young Man may die quickly Be stedfast in thy Promise and constant in a good Resolution Now as to the Employment of a Soldier he that sets up his rest to live by that Profession in my opinion can hardly be an honest Man or a good Christian for that every War is of it self unjust the good Cause may make it lawful Besides Soldiers in Peace are as Chimneys in Summer or like Dogs past hunting or as Women when their Beauty is at an end Unto which I think I may not improperly add that famous Saying of the Great Man Monsieur Monluc Marshal of France viz. But that the Mercies of God were transcendent and unlimitted we Soldiers says he and Men of Arms and War could never be saved in regard of our Profaneness and Debaucheries and Wickedness and of our Rapine Cruelties and Devastations which accompany us Another worthy Author tells us Good-Husbandry may well stand with great Honour as Breadth with Heighth And I may add With great Charity to the Poor Accordingly it is related of that noble Peer of this Kingdom the Earl of Darby in Queen Elizabeth's days who by his Thriftiness repaired his Estate yet was famous for his Hospitality and Charity His House was a College of Discipline and who always furnish'd the industrious Poor with Work and Employment who is said once a Month to look into his Income and once a Week into his Disbursements that none should wrong him nor be wronged by him As also it is related of that worthy Prelate Bishop Mountague in King Charles the First 's Reign That as Nature had enclined him to Magnificence so his Vertue had enclined him also to Frugality One hath well said That Frugality is the Left-hand of Fortune as Diligence is the Right And the witty Italian hath this common Proverb That if Frugality be a Vice it never disinherited any Man But it is worthy of our further Consideration I humbly conceive that old Saying Nunquam prospere succedunt res humanae ubi negliguntur Divinae i. e. That worldly Affairs are never long prosperous and successful where God and Religion are neglected And accordingly in our English Proverb That Prayer and Provinder hinder no work but rather farther it And above all let us often think of our blessed Saviour's words That wan shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Mat. 4.4 Deut. 8.3 As also of those words of Solomon Prov. 10.22 The blessing of the Lord maketh rich and with this great advantage annexed to it It adds no sorrow with it This therefore is of great advantage to us and in this lies our Good-Husbandry even for the things of this life the blessing of the Most High upon our Riches and upon all our Affairs But the highest piece of Good-Husbandry consists doubtless in principally minding the present and future Advantage and Welfare of our Souls and Minds which is truly our selves And to instruct in this Good-Husbandry was a great and principal end of our blessed Saviour's coming into the World both of his Doctrine and Example for