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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	see_v	soul_n	14,522	5	5.2397	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08492	Short questions and answeares, conteyning the summe of Christian religion	Openshaw, Robert, b. 1554 or 5.; Pagit, Eusebius, 1547?-1617, attributed name.	1579 (1579)	STC 18816; ESTC S120717	12,788	37

¶ Short questions and answeares conteyning the summe of Christian Religion Deut. 6.6 6 These wordes which I commaund thee this day shal be in thy heart 7 And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thy house as thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest downe and when thou risest vp ¶ Imprinted at the three Cranes in the Vinetree by Thomas Dawson 1579. ¶ To Christian parentes and Housholders grace and mercie in Christ. THe blessings of God powred vpon this Realme in so great abundance as the preaching of the Gospell peace prosperitie and wealth vnder the rule and gouernement of our merciful Queene causeth me in thankesgeuing to ioy But the contempt and abuse of these blessinges mingleth my ioy with greefe and causeth Gods children for sorow to mourne and lament And this greeuing of Gods Spirite in his children shall fathers of children and maisters of housholdes though manie other do greeuously offend especially answeare for before god The great blessinges sent of God the lawes made by the Prince the woorde preached by the Ministers take small effect and bring foorth little fruite because parentes and maisters shew such examples of loose libertie in them selues and throwe the raines of licentiousnesse into the neckes of others They remember not the honourable calling whiche they haue of the Lorde that he hath placed them as it were in his owne roome and geuen them his own names that they might gouerne teache and direct others to honour and serue him vppon whom their preeminence doeth wholy depende But alas they do not their duetie in gouerning they applie not themselues in teaching them that are committed to their charge and therefore youth not gouerned nor taught nor praying at home can not pray nor learne in the congregation But as the deuises of men are ready to find excuses so seke they vp figge leaues in this to couer their shame First they wil say We geue thē meate mony for their worke what should we do more So do you bestowe vpon your beasts in buying feeding them but your seruantes are more pretious in the eye of the Lord you are charged in the fourth commaundement to see that they serue god Some say they sende them to the Church on the Sabbaoth and so answeare that charge But the Lorde cōmaundeth you your selues also to rehearse his lawes to your children and housholdes Deu. 6.7 If they plead ignorance it wil be but a weake answeare to the lord Some say they are ashamed to teache and pray with their housholdes I say because it is good they are ashamed else euerie thing they are ready to performe with brasen browes in open places Some say it is hypocrisie to performe their dutie let such pray for new hearts for if their owne consciences condemne them of hypocrisie God is greater than their consciences Some say it will let and hinder their seruantes from worke as Pharaoh obiected to Moses Exod. 5.4 But our Sauiour answeareth such in his answeare to Martha Luke 10.41 This I speake not to nourse anie in idlenesse for such should not eate 2. Thess. 3.10 Some say they shal be scorned by worldlinges If you seeke to please men you are not the seruantes of Christ Galat. 1.10 Yet this was Christes portion and they are but faint souldiours that flee for a woorde for we must buckle with the diuell hande to hande who will not leaue vs till death except by Apostasie we yeelde to him both bodies and soules Some say that they cannot bring the vnlearned in letters to this knowledge but they do not remember that God geueth knowledge of his mysteries euē to the simple that feare him Psalme 25.14 And in foure monethes space I haue seene these principles and answeares learned by Gentlemen Yeomen Horsekeepers Shepheardes Carters Milkemaides Kitchen-boyes al in that houshold where these orders were obserued excepting three or foure whose capacitie was but meane simple yet the simplest went not without some profite Some say youth are so stubborne that they will abide no such orders I say better is the roome of suche then their companie for if admonitiōs appointed by the Lord winne them not auoyde them and so shalt thou auoyde the infecting of the rest of thy householde by them so shalt thou make others to feare so shalt thou by making them ashamed of their sinnes driue them to repentaunce principally thou shalt auoyde Gods iudgement against thee and thy houshold If thou knowest that thou keepest an ignorant superstitious Papist a blasphemous swearer a disobediēt subiect to God Prince Ruler a licentious and loose liuer which giueth his bodie to fighting whooring and stealing his tongue to quarelling filthie talking and lying thou seeke not to refourme him by the order of God doest thou not make thy house his stewes thy selfe his bawde Remoue such lest God remoue thee Is it writtē in vaine that the plague shall neuer goe from the house where the swerer is that it shal be full of plagues Will not the Lord perfourme that which he hath spokē by his prophet Zacharie 5.5 That there shal remain a plague in such houses to consume them with the timber stones therof I would they would cōsider what God saide to Elie in the like case Thou honorest thy children aboue me therfore I wil cut thee and them off The comfort he had of his youthes in the ende was this the Arke the witnesse of the Lordes pre●ence was lost thirtie thousand of the people slayne his two sonnes killed this liued he to heare and so in sorrow fell backward and brake his necke then his daughter in lawe fell in trauell and in trauell died the remnant of his house were glad to crouche and begge for a small peece of siluer and a morsell of bread If our Englishmen could beholde these plagues the remouing of Religion to a people that shall bring foorth fruit of it the taking away of our Queene the wayling of their wiues the murdering of their children and the cutting of their owne throtes by straungers they woulde looke better about them O Fathers of children and housholdes if you woulde before hand arreigne your selues before Gods iudgment seate and there finde your selues endited readie to be condemned for sending your posteritie to begge at straungers doores for spoyling your children of their liues this realme of religion Queene and peace and that you shoulde see there your children wiues countrie Churche of GOD and Queene accusing you for murtherers and traytoures what will you answeare what can you say Turne your musicke to mourning your feasting to fasting your riotting to repenting and say with Dauid and with Daniel 2. Sam. 12.13 Dan. 9.5 We haue sinned and committed iniquitie done wickedly haue rebelled against thee O Lorde righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee and vnto vs open shame and confusion of faces Say with the men Actes 2.37 and