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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	hand_n	soul_n	5,920	5	4.8872	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73542	A letter sent to Master A.B. from the most godly and learned preacher I.B. in which is set forth the authoritie of parentes vpon their children, for gyuing of correction vnto them.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1584 (1584)	STC 3495.7; ESTC S124645	5,664	21

A Letter sent to Master A. B. from the most godly and learned Preacher I. B. In which is set forth the authoritie of Parentes vpon their children for gyuing of correction vnto them With an addition of a Sermon of Repentance annexed therevnto Anno Domini 1548. To his louing Friend and Cosyn Mayster A. B. GRace and peace in our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ be wyth you and all yours I am very much grieued to heare of those afflictions of mynde which doe so greatly trouble and appassionate you and my deare Cosin your wyfe for the disobedience of your sonne towards you And specially for that you stande in some doubt wyth your selfe in respect of his ryper yeres nowe whether you should giue him such sharpe correction as wythout which there is little hope of his good reformation he being nowe entred into the age of twentie and aboue Truely you must take this to be a iust punishment sent from God vnto you in that you haue heretofore so careleslye let fall the reynes of his gouernment out of your own hands and layd the same so loosely in the neck of your youthful sonne permitting him without chastisment to do what he would and to followe the lewde affections of his owne rashe will and pleasures I did alwayes much feare and mistrust that this your ouermuch suffraunce woulde bréede and bring forth at the length his great hinderance much discomforte to your selfe and heapes of sorrow to al vs your faithful friends kinsfolkes For who séeth not that in all things it is moste playne and euydent both to men of iudgemente and learning but chiefely to men of wisedome and experience that youth and yong things alwayes haue bene bée and euer wil be such and the like as in and by their education they are taught and framed Yea it is most commonly and in manner continually séene that nature by the power and strength of education is oft tymes vtterly chaunged and altered to the contrarye the history of Socrates doth approoue it the memorye of Balenus doth throughlye confyrme it and euen in oure owne tyme and age it is so fully witnessed as it néedeth no great argument to set forth the same I me selfe haue séene a very mungrell Curre traynde vp and made to the hurte Déere so excellent so perfite and so good as that he was bought and soulde for xx angels betwene two brethren This did education put into him agaynst nature Againe I haue séene a moste fayre and bewtifull hounde and euen of the best kynde being bred and brought vp to sléepe and lodge in a knights Chamber and to wayte vppon him there hath vtterly refused to hunte or to followe the chase according to his kinde yea thoughe he was beaten vnto it from his maysters héeles right sharplye It is beyonde all beliefe what a wonderfull great force and power in all things hath education So it is most certaine that if there be due care and diligence had and vsed that vertuous and good behauyour be taught and louingly cherished and lewd and loose demeanor forbidden and sharply punished the childe which is alwaies sure to tast and receiue the great pleasure of the fyrst and not to escape for no cause the bitter paynes of the seconde will alwayes no doubt gladly imbrace the one and wyllingly flye the other Wherfore I conclude that if you had brought vp your sonne with care and dilligence to reioyce in the feare of God to take pleasure in méeknesse and humylity to delight in obedience towards his Parents and on the other side to be afrayde to do euill to shun disobedience and to feare the smarte of correction you should then haue felte those comfortes which happye Parentes receyue from their good and honest children and neuer haue knowne those sorrowes which nowe oppresse your harte for the griefe of your vnruly sonne But will you know the roote and cause of all this Alas euen your self and my siely Cosin your wyfe caried on with a fonde loue and a foolish affection which euermore falleth out to be the childes vtter destruction you both haue suffered him to passe on pleasauntly in his owne delights you haue permitted hym to runne the course of his own will you haue foolishly forborne to spende the sharpe rods of correction vpon the naked fleshe of hys loynes you haue fondly pyttied to spylle some bloud of his bodye with the sharpe strypes of chastisment what haue ye wrought thereby you haue preserued his skyn from breaking hys bloud from spylling and his loynes from smarting A three halfpeny matter yea though hys skin had bene broken in péeces though his blood had run downe in streames and though his scourged loynes had smarted forty dayes after For now by forberaunce of this which is nothing you haue put your sonne in hazarde of vtter confusion you haue heaped your owne discomforte and lamentation yea you haue endaungered your vtter déepe damnation For be you most assured that before the Lorde you shall giue acount of such carelesse and neglygente bringing vp of your children so muche to their owne destruction and when they perishe for wante of that rodde of correction which is committed vnto you and put into your hands onely to the ende and intente that you should vse it for their chastismente and good assuredly their death and damnation will bee requyred at your handes and you shall aunswere as well for their bodyes as for their soules in that last day of iudgement before the Tribunall seate of GOD. But I heare that now you wéepe and wayle bitterly for that which is past you fynde your owne follye now you repent you of your extreme fondnesse and foolishe pittie heretofore and if your sonne were in his tender yeares againe you saye that then you would chastise him with all seuere scourges and castigation Beholde howe one great follye doth acompany an other and that greater then the first Good Lorde how wonderfully are you blynded in that which is more cléere than is the light of the noone daye Your sonne is now of twenty yeres old and more Is hée therfore frée from the rod of correction Is hée therfore now not subiect to the stripes scourges of his father Is he therefore not to be stripped naked to be beaten and whipped vntill you haue broken euen all the skin of his bodye spilt the blood of his loynes in abundaunce and giuen him so many thousande scourges as that hée may neyther lye nor syt without payne in forty dayes after Nay hée is nothing at all frée from these thinges For all this is most fytte to be done and he is to be haled home with violence and whether he will or not to be taught to obey by the smarte of his loynes and to be traynde to his duety by the paynes of his scourges For when gentle lenatiues will doe no good to an olde sore ouer long neglected you knowe that Corosiues are to be applyed though