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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	bind_v	child_n	parent_n	3,455	5	9.2562	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25483	Annus Sophiæ jubilæus, The sophick constitution, or, The evil customs of the world reform'd a dialogue between a philadept and a citizen concerning the possibility of the sophick transmutation, the probability that there are adepts in the world ... : to which is added, A summary of some conferences with an artist, &c.		1700 (1700)	Wing A3248; ESTC R18888	53,097	90

and at a certain distance of some Miles there should be a Judge Resident A Judge that should have given an apparently and visibly wrong Judgment or that should have denied Justice should be severely punished and it should be easie and of no charge to obtain a Sentence against him and redress from the wrong sustained by his unjustice On the other hand the Judge should severely punish the Party that should appear before him in a visibly and palpably wrong Case when it were credible he saw what was right and maliciously and contentiously refused to do it This Enormity should be punished by Fine Imprisonment and corporal Punishment otherwise there would be no end of contentious Suits and a Judge could never rest No Person having Right of his side should ever be a loser or a sufferer in the least whereas now an innocent Person being falsly accused or unjustly brought before the Judges tho' after great difficulty his Innocence at last thro' God's Providence appears he is yet half undone in his Estate and his Accusers who appear to all the World to be perjured Villains and Infidels are let go unpunished and they shall not be made Examples nor be hindred from doing the like mischief again without he pursue them on fresh score and make an end of ruining himself These ways will inevitably draw God's Wrath upon a Nation and will undoubtedly be punished with everlasting Curse without timely amendment Thrice blessed are the People whose God is the Lord and who actually observe his Laws Seventhly Touching Punishments There should be but few Criminals condemned to die Most of them that are ordinarily punished with Death should be sentenced to be the Publick's Slaves for their life their Estates being consiscated for the uses of the Nation Those that had stolen any Goods from any Man should work for him in Prison 'till they had restored two-fold the value of that which they had taken Prisoners that were imprisoned for wicked Actions should have their Legs chained and should be obliged to hard work None should be idle and much less suffered to be intemperate in Prisons The Prisons should be low Buildings long and narrow and full of Grates that every one might see the Prisoners work There should be Prisons for Women distinct and separate from those for Men. The Keepers or Goalers that should be convicted to be Swearers Drunkards Extortioners c. should be made Slaves Prisons should not be the Debauchers of the miserable but rather Schools of Repentance and Vertue All Strumpets that were cast into Prison should not go out from thence 'till they had learned a Trade and had got the habit of working and living honestly All Prisoners should be obliged to assist at Divine Service constantly four times every day and the ignorant should be catechised and made to learn perfectly their Catechism Eighthly Touching Learning and Education Seeing that from the Education and Learning of young Persons and Children depends in a high measure not only the happiness of having good and vertuous Citizens and Subjects which is the greatest Felicity that Christian Governours can enjoy upon Earth but also the happiness of the governed themselves in this Life and the next I would have therefore the best Books concerning Education to be sometime read in Churches And I would have such Regulations made that Inspection should be had over Parents and Masters to see whether they discharged themselves well of their Duties towards their Children Scholars and Servants in that particular For Masters are indubitably bound to take care of the Christian Education of their Servants as well as School-Masters are to answer for that of their Scholars and Parents for that of their Sons and Daughters Masters should therefore cause their Servants to read some Portion of the Bible every day and if they had further time to spare them from their Business should oblige them to write and learn something useful by heart but should by no means suffer them to be idle Idleness being the Mother of Corruption and Debauchery Masters that should be convicted of neglect herein should be fined disgraced and declared uncapable of any trust not discharging themselves of their Duty in their own Families and thereby shewing that they have no Conscience that they do not fear God and have no Christian Love or Concernment for their Fellow-Christians or Fellow-Creatures But if it be the Duty of Masters to habituate their Servants to live vertuously and religiously it is much more incumbent upon Parents to train up their Children in the Way they should go They should therefore in the First place teach them the Principles of Piety Secondly Not use them to any Pride and Vanity Delicacy or Esseminacy but bring them up in the greatest Plainness to make them by use hardy and manly moderate and inclined to look upon their Inferiours as Brethren and upon all Men as equals in the main Thirdly Cause them to learn what it is necessary Persons of their Condition should know and especially accustom them never to be idle but to love to be always employed in something that may be useful to themselves and to the Society The Clark in every Parish or some other Person that should be paid by the Adepts should teach all Children to read write and cast up Accompts without costing any thing to the Parents Above all Masters should be charged to take care chiefly that their Scholars should not contract vicious Habits as of Prophaneness Lying c. they should set private Observators over them to watch to all their Actions and for every Immorality they should be punished more than for any other Fault These Rules should be observed in all Schools great and small Latin and Greek Schools should be disposed into as many Rooms and Apartments as Forms or Classes Every Classis should have a particular Master as well as a particular Room to avoid confusion And the School should have a Place in the Church appropriated for the Scholars to sit in in the view of their Masters All Forms should be examined twice a Year not by Persons chosen by the School-Masters themselves as is ordinary but by the Bishop of the Diocess who should take of them an Oath of examining impartially If the Examiners found the Masters to have been negligent in their Office or that the Scholars had not learned the things that are to be taught in every Form the said Masters should be turned out At every Examination there should be Praemia of some value appointed for those that excelled in the knowledge of Religion and Human Learning to encourage and excite Scholars For the same reason in every Classis there should be two Emperors Consuls a set number of Senators c. which Places should be distributed according to every one's merit as it is practised by the best Masters of Education Besides Languages some other things should be taught in Schools to Children as Chronology Geography Arithmetick the beginnings of Rhetorick and of