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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	lord_n	see_v	4,192	5	3.2926	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01383	A godlie exhortation, and fruitfull admonition to vertuous parents and modest matrons Describing the holie vse, and blessed institution of that most honorable state of matrimonie, and the encrease of godlie and happy children, in training them vp in godly education, and houshold discipline. R.G.	Greenham, Richard.	1584 (1584)	STC 11503; ESTC S120863	7,764	24

the like sinne to themselues Wilt thou know thou father howe thou maiest haue that blessing to bée the blessed father of a blessed séede wilt thou know thou mother howe to auoide that cursse to bée the curssed mother of a curssed séede bring thy children within the compasse of the couenant indeuour to make thy sonne the sonne of God and thy daughter by nature the daughter of god by grace and remember howe that God which on his part protested to father Abraham that he was all sufficient for the accomplishment of his promise in giuing him a blessed séede and requested also on father Abrahams part that he should walke before him and be vpright Wilt thou then haue the one part of this of the couenant that is that God should blesse thée in thy séede then remember also that thou walke before the Lord and be vpright wilt thou haue thy children as the blessed séede of Abraham teach them with Abraham the iudgements of the Lord pray for them with Abraham that they may liue in tho light of the Lord be readie to offer them with Abraham that they may be a holie sacrifice vnto the Lord It is thou O man O woman that mayest do thy childe the greatest good and the greatest harme if thou prayest for him and repentest for thy selfe the Lord will blesse thy care the pastors paines the teachers trauaile But if thou dispisest these dueties the Lorde will denie thée these blessings and the cursse of God will be vpon thy childe at home in thy house abroade in the Church and in schoole And séeing the Lorde hath promised that he will be thy God and blesse thy séede if thou béest faithfull thou mayest both hope that thou art of the faithfull if thou hast a blessed séede and feare that thou hast not as yet the blessing of the couenant when thy séede is accurssed But had not Iacob wicked children and Dauid godlesse sonnes and doeth not dayly experience teach vs that wicked men haue godly children yes for besides the secret counsell of the Lorde herein we must knowe that neither the promise of the Lord is so vniuersall that euerie particular child of a faithfull man should be within the couenant for if of many there be but one blessed the promise is performed yea which more is though the faithfull man haue neuer a good childe yet if vnto the thousand generation there be but one good the couenant is not broken neither must we tie the Lorde his worke so much to man that a good man may not haue an euill sonne séeing though the Lord visit not his sinnes yet he may visit the sinnes of some of the forefathers to the thirde and fourth generation going before To the second I say that an euill father hauing a good child though the Lord shew not mercie to that particular man therein yet he may remember his promise to some of the forefathers in the thousand generations going before and though that euill man haue no curssed child yet the cursse may be accomplished in the third and fourth generation following Wherefore not speaking of election or reprobation which wee leaue only to the Lord to make good or bad I exhort parentes to vse the ordinarie meanes to bring vp their childrē so as they either by some good tokens may sée them the children of God and heires of the couenant or at least be comforted in their owne conscience if their children for some cause vnknowne refuse it in that to their habilitie they haue vsed all good meanes to bring them vp well and offered them to God And if parents haue cause to be grieued when thus trauelling in good education they cannot sée good in their children how much more cause of griefe may they haue when they haue vsed no labour at all to bring them vp in the feare of the Lord And yet many will be grieued for the one that will not for the other wherfore let vs learne if we will conuey God his blessing to our posterities let vs vse y e duties there vnto let vs if we be loth to conuey God his iudgements to our children carefullie auoid the meanes vnto it and surely as it is a blessed thing in the houre of death with Simeon to depart in peace leauing our wife children and seruants members of Christ spouses to Christ childrē to God and seruants to the Lorde so in death no one thing will be more grieuous vnto a man then the Lord hauing giuen him the charge of so many soules to be furthered to saluation that his owne tormented conscience shall presse him howe in as much as he could he hath helped them forwarde to their damnation and so which is more fearefull he shall haue them spewing and foming out on his face continuall curses in hell accusing him for euer to bee a murtherer of their soules and a cutthrote of their saluation Howe be it in all this I doe not exempt Children from all blame so charging the parents as though the Children were frée from all guiltinesse herein for I am not ignorant that as in the time of Ezechiel so in our dayes youth is readie enough to take vp this prouerb the fathers haue eaten sower grapes and the Childrens téeth are set on edge but I affirme that though the occasion be offred of such wicked parents yet the cause of destruction is still in the children themselues And besides that it is sure that the soule which hath sinned shall die the death Séeing there bée some young men who notwithstanding the great prophanesse of the moste the manifolde corruptions offered abroade the vngodlie examples abounding at home are so mightilie preserued by the séede of grace that they escape safelie in an holie course of life lamenting when they sée the least occasion of euill reioycing in the least occasion of good things The rest who please themselues and hope to shelter their sinnes vnder their parents defaults are plainlie left without excuse and are iustlie guiltie of thebloud of their owne sinnes Labour therefore ye yong men to wipe away the teares of griefe from your fathers eies and stay the sorrowfull spirites of your tender mothers and consider in your selues if ye haue anie nature in you and haue not buried y e vse of common reason what a shame is it to be a shame vnto your fathers to whome ye ought to be a glorie thinke ye wanton wittes that haue not cast of all naturall affections what a contempt it is to be a contempt vnto your mothers to whome you haue offered as it were a despightfull violence in that ye are a corrosiue to hir griefe when as ye should haue bene a crowne vnto hir comforts The end of all this bréeflie is thus much that parents hauing fooles Children not walking either in knowledge or in a good cōscience must make some vse of so iust a cause of griefe examining themselues and accusing their owne soules before the Lord either for that their méeting was prophane to so holie an estate or brutishlie because they desired rather a séede like vnto them in flesh and bloud then such as might bée like to Christ by grace and new birth or that they begate their ofspring as mere naturall or verie carnall men or because they either prophanelie neglected all education or monstrouslie misliked that in their young children which they liked in themselues and punished in them their owne corrupt precepts or for that they suffered their Children iniuriouslie to doe euill to others which they could not suffer to doe to them selues or vntaught that at home which was taught abroad or in that they doe lie in some sinne vnrepented of or else because they neuer made conscience to bring their posteritie within the couenant of saluation but still loued the flesh of their children and not their soules And children here also must learne that it is one speciall propertie of a liberal and ingenious nature to be carefull so to liue that in time they may be a glorie to their fathers and a ioy to their mothers which the Lord grant to vs all for his owne glorie and our euerlasting comfort through Iesus Christ our Lord and onlie Sauiour Amen Imprinted at London by Ihon Windet and Thomas Iudson for Nicholas Lyng Anno domini 1584