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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	brethren_n	life_n	love_v	5,972	5	7.1555	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65690	Comfort for parents, mourning over their hopeful children, that dye young In a funeral discourse upon Jer. 31. xvii. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord. By Thomas Whitaker, minister of the Gospel at Leeds, in York-shire.	Whitaker, Thomas, 1650 or 51-1710.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1713; ESTC R221995	29,944	125

Children run into How conscientious have some been to reprove their Fellows that have been involved in these and such like Vices and that to the Admiration of such as have observed them How careful have some been to avoid the Company of those that could not be reclaimed from their early Prophaness They have had no mind to Play or Converse or keep Company with such tho' under many Temptations thereunto What Construction can be made of this early Tenderness but that it is some line or stroke of the New Creature drawn in the Heart of such young ones which may justly encourage Parents to entertain a Comfortable Hope concerning them It 's observed as a Character of a Gracious Import in the young King Josiah 2 Kin. 22.19 That his Heart was tender When Conscience is so early impressed with the Sense of Sin and Duty it is a good Sign It 's taken notice of as an early Appearance of Goodness in this young Prince and it is the like in others where-ever it is found Jer. 32.40 Being a Branch of that Fear which God hath promised to put into the Hearts of his own People 7. An Obediential Regard unto Parents is another Argument for Good As it is a frequently-repeated Charge upon Children Eph. 6.1 Col. 3.20 To obey Parents in the Lord so it is a very Promising Intimation when they are early affected with the Conscience of their Duty in this particular Disobedient Children as they are the Grief and Heart-break of their Parents for the present so they generally give but a very poor Prospect of Hope for the future especially when their Disobedience is attended with Contempt and Obstinacy Accordingly it is very observable that among the Persons whom the Children of Israel were to pronounce Accursed upon Mount-Ebal Contemptuous Undutiful Children are set almost in the very Front of the Black Catalogue Next to the Idolater that Maketh and Worshippeth any Graven or Mosten Image Deut. 27 16. is He that setteth Light by his Father and Mother And what blacker Mark of Infamy and Hopelesness can be put upon any Persons than to be set in the Forefront of such as the Curse of Heaven is upon To bear any Place in that miserable Beadroll is sad enough But to be the very second Rank of the Accursed Crew bespeaks the Case to be particularly dreadful and discouraging But on the contrary dutiful obedient Children as they are the Joy and Crown of their Parents while they live so they give very good Ground of Hope when they come to die For they are the Children of Promise And if they have not the Promise made good to them in a long Life upon Earth it cannot but be comfortably hoped that a Gracious and Faithful God will fulfil it in that which is better even Life everlasting in Heaven I know the Exterternal Acts of Obedience may proceed from different Springs or Principles whichmay often vary the case A Child may yield outward Obedience from Fear as well as from Love The dread of the Rod may overawe them when Love and the Sense of Duty does not incline them and in that case we cannot make so hopeful a Conclusion But when a Child's Obedience evidently springs from an Obediential Disposition when it is influenced not so much by a slavish awful Fear as by Principles of Conscience Love and Reverence Love and Reverence to Parents and Conscience to the Command of God it cannot but be reckon'd a very encouraging Symptom It 's recorded to the Honour of our blessed Saviour That he was Subject to his Parents Tho' the Advancement of his Humane Nature into the Person of the Son of God advanced him above any Obligations of that kind yet to testifie how natural how amiable how becoming Obedience to Parents is himself yielded all the Subjection and Obedience that could be expected from the Relation He was Subject that was Lord over all to leave a blessed Example to Children to be and do likewise And it cannot but be esteemed an Hopeful sign to be conformable to so good a Pattern It 's a part of the Image of the blessed Son of God Rom. 8.29 to which all the Children of God are predestinated to be conformed And any Branch of Conformity to that Image cannot but afford a good Hope concerning those in whom it is found Do you see then Children giving all becoming Proofs of their inward Acknowledgment of and Veneration for their Parents Do you see them careful to please and fearful to offend and grieve them When other Children are Proud and Stomachful and Self-will'd impatient either of Advice or Reproof Do you see these listning to their Parent 's Exhortations and melting under their Reproofs When others make no matter of disobeying and offending and provoking their Parents Do you see these efflicted and grieved at themselves for grieving theirs When the Obedience of others lasts no longer than while their Parents Eye is over them Do you see these bear a tender respect to their Parents Pleasure and Favour as well from under as while they are under their Parents Eye In a word Do you see them Fearful of or Penitent for any thing that looks like Undutifulness Such Children but be lookt on as leaving a good Testimony behind them tho' snatcht away in their Morning-age 8. A particular Love to good People is another hopeful Appearance in Children That Love to the Saints is made an evidence of Grace in Adult Persons is so plain in Scripture that nothing can be plainer Particularly it 's the Mark mainly insisted upon by the Beloved Disciple John whose own Heart being much affected with Love to God and the Brethren he makes this a Principal Tryal with respect to others I need not point to all the places that occur in his Epistles to this purpose That one is enough 1 Joh. 3.14 We know that we are pasled from Death unto Life because we love the Brethren Observe he lays it down not meerly as a probable but as a Damonstrative Argument We know that is with an Holy Confidence and Assurance that we are passed from Death unto Life from a State of Sin unto a State of Grace because we love the Brethren that is the Children of God as such or under that Consideration and Character And as this is a Character so express in Scripture so in Experience it has been so singularly useful that it has supported the Spirits and quieted the Fears of many doubting Souls when all their other Graces not being so perceptible in their Operations have been able to afford them little or no Relief Now if it be an Argument of such Evidence in grown Persons why may we not allow it the like evidentialness with respect to Children It 's true Love may be caused by such Motives as may prove too weak a Foundation to build upon in this case as when it proceeds from nearness of Natural Affinity or from a sweetness of Temper and