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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	age_n	child_n	parent_n	1,638	5	8.6775	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56903	Hell open'd, or, The infernal sin of murther punished being a true relation of the poysoning of a whole family in Plymouth, whereof two died in a short time : for which horrid fact, the malefactors were condemned before the Lord Chief Justice North at Exector, the last Lent assizes, the one to be burnt, the other to be hanged : with an account of the several discourses and religious means used by divers godly ministers to bring them to repentance ... / by J.Q., Minister of the Gospel.	Quick, John, 1636-1706.	1676 (1676)	Wing Q207; ESTC R11200	63,192	112

his afterwalk spent much time alone mourning before his death and that day he died having no visible appearance thereof to those who looked on he was heard in his Chamber much Wrestling in Prayer and after long continuance those of the House were forced to break open the Door getting no answer after their long knocking and found him dead in the Room but upon his knees in a Prayer posture and the whole blood of his body which from every passage thereof had issued out swimming about the Floor It being visible how all these passages were opened for that effect a most astonishing instance declaring this to the world though he pardon the iniquity of his people Yet some sins he will not let pass without a visible mark of his anger but will take vengeance on their inventions I have given you the Story in its own Scottish Dialect 7. Carry this ever upon your hearts keep it in your minds that you have a Father and Master in Heaven and that dayly tributes of obedience and Thanksgiving must be yielded by you unto him That you are Gods Children and Gods Servants and you must Love Honor Reverence and Obey the Lord whose you are and that you ought to serve him principally in the first place and continually to the very last Remember you have pretious never dying Souls and these must be saved Do not for fear of any mans displeasure displease God and Damn your Souls If you once come to neglect God to turn your backs upon your known duties God will abandon you And if God leave you woe woe unto you My dear Youth acquaint your selves with the practice of secret Prayer Be at least once a day in private upon your knees before God Bear the Yoke of Christs Commandments it is a Golden Yoke his Yoke is easie his Burden light You have seen very lately a vast difference between the Service of God and of sin When Souls drudge for sin like a cursed Tyrant it makes them dig their untimely Graves Sin is neither profitable nor honorable nor comfortable It puts you upon the basest work and pays the worst wages What fruit have sinners had of sin but shame That Harvest which they reap from the Seed of sin is nothing else but an heap of grief and desperate sorrows 8. Receive warning and instruction from these dreadful providences Do not boast nor glory over these wretches You stand by Grace be not high minded but fear it is God withholds you from their sins and preserves you from their Judgments Our blessed and Famous Martyr Master Bradford never saw any Malefactor leading to Execution but he would smite upon his breast and say Here Within me is the root of that matter for which this man suffers You can all say the same Remember Lots Wise If God erect A Pillar of Salt in Plymouth if God Fire a Beacon upon Catdown as God hath done in the Execution of these unfortunate Creatures here is the use you must make of them to hear and fear and do no more any such wickedness They are become a Sign unto you God hath made them your Examples to the intent that you should not lust after evil things as they lusted They are a Warning-piece shot off in your Ears a Light-house presented to your Eyes that you might be kept from the paths of the Destroyer These things are happened and fallen out now in your days for Examples that you might take admonition upon whom the ends the last and worst days of the World are come The just Lord hath been in the midst of us he cannot do iniquity every morning doth he bring his judgments to light he faileth not Oh! be not as the unjust that know no shame When Gods judgments are come home so near unto us to our very Doors and Houses The Youth of Plymouth must learn righteousness If you will not be warned by others God will make you a warning unto others Dear youth remember that all Poysoners all Dogs that Bark at Religion and Godly Persons all Whoremongers and Murderers all wicked and unnatural Children all disobedient and undutiful Servants shall be driven out of Heaven by this Token by this Sign that Two of Plymouth were lately by a very shameful and cursed death driven out of the Earth II. Art thou a Superior A Master or Parent Friendly Reader Then suffer the word of Exhortation 1. STudy Christian Oeconomicks the Arts of well-ordering thy Family according to the Laws of Christ and put them into practice It was an excellent Order of our Church full of religious Prudence that those who Married should on their wedding day receive the Sacrament Teaching us this Lesson that none should enter upon Family charges before they did well understand the nature of Family duties Ah! how much is this neglected Persons get into a married life and yet them Families Servants and Children before they have any skill to govern themselves and neither skill nor will to govern s uch as are under them This is the true Source of all our mischiefs the Seminary and Root of our abounding Prophaneness and till there be a Reformation here in our respective Families in Masters and Parents I shall despair of ever meeting with it among Children or Servants If Children prove unnatural and Servants ungovernable Why did you not teach them better If you are ignorant of your duties do not complain that they neglect theirs If Poyson and Murder come into a Family it was because the fear of God was not there 2. My dear Plimouthians Give good Examples to those that are under you They are led more by Examples than Precepts They do not write after the best Copies but those that are nearest hand Oh! walk before God before your Children and Servants in a perfect way Read and Meditate upon the 101. Psalm There is a divine Platform of your whole duty What Children learn from their Parents Servants from their Masters that do they instil and teach also unto their Children and Servants The happiness or wretchedness the weal and woe of the next age depends upon the Education and Examples of this Make not posterity miserable nor your own Flesh and Blood your dearest parts your chiefest Goods to curse you when you are dead and gone for your cockering and indulgence to them Live all the Sermons you hear and be an Epistle of commendation of your Ministers to your Children Servants Families and the whole World Let none under your roofs have occasion to behold your miscarriages They are natural Apes imitating what is had not what is good Keep your selves from all sin and keep the sight of sin from all that belong unto you If Children and Servants instead of Praying hear Swearing and Cursing instead of the Bible and Catechisms bloody Oaths and Blaspheming instead of seeing Holiness and the shining beauties of Godliness shall be the Spectators of their Parents wickedness and uncleanness Atheism and Irreligion Mark it Sirs Mark what I