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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	correct_v	parent_n	998	5	9.2727	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04623	A briefe exhortation to all men to set their houses in order. By William Iones B. of D. Preacher to the Isle of Wight	Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2.	1631 (1631)	STC 14741; ESTC S107460	9,695	36

and impudent as to scoffe at those that solemnly prayse God at meales and pray for a blessing especially if their Grace bee a little longer than ordinary Doubtlesse this is an evident token of gracelesse men Neither is it any marvell though many use Gods creatures to surfetting and drunkennesse when they make no conscience to have them sanctified by prayer With ordinarie prayer in the familie wee must sometimes joyne singing of Psalmes The chiefe exercise of the Saints in heaven is said to be giving of thankes and singing praise unto God why then should this exercise on earth seeme tedious to any man that hopes to see God as he is in the heaven and beare a part in that celcstiall Queere Moreover besides ordinarie prayer everie day perhaps sometimes it shall be found requisite for the Master of the familie to call to extraordinarie prayer which is commonly joyned with fasting This may be done in a common or private calamity or when some extraordinarie blessing is requested as Nehem. 1. 4. Acts 10 30. Ester 4. 16. Now concerning this blessed service of prayer to be used dailie in everie familie me thinkes I should not neede to use motives considering that God doth so greatlie delight in it and the whole world is not worth this one prerogative of beleevers that they may at all times and in all places make their requests knowne unto the Almightie and aske anie thing of him in the name of Christ and have a promise to be heard If the Lord had commanded us everie day with great cost to offer unto him sacrifices morning and evening would we not doe it How much more when hee saith unto us onelie Aske and have The third part of holie service to be used in private families is wholesome Discipline This must not exceede the bounds A Master of a familie may proceede neither to excommunication nor execution of any of his familie never so wicked The course that Governours of severall houses may take is this First if their children or servants be unrulie they must tell them of their faults in the spirit of meeknesse Secondlie if they doe not amend they must rebuke them sharplie Thirdlie if that will not prevaile they must correct them Fourthlie if private admonition and correction will not bring them into order the Master must require the aide of the publike Magistrate As it is Deut. 21. 18. If a man have a stubborne and rebellious sonne which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastened him will not hearken unto them Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the Elders of his City and they shall say unto the Elders of his Citty This our sonne is stubborne and rebellious he will not obey our voice hee is a glutton and a drunkard And all the men of the City shall stone him with stones that he dye So shalt thou put evill away from among you and all Israell shall heare and feare Thus it should be But alas how hath foolish pittie thrust out wholesome housholde Discipline Fathers and Mothers are so farre from correcting and rebuking their unrulie children that they are angrie if anie neighbour speake unto them by way of admonition Therefore have we just cause to feare lest the Lord deale with us as he did with olde Ely because hee was too favourable to his lewd sonnes So also for evill servants what Master now adayes will take any paines by wholesome admonition and due correction to bring them into order Some Masters indeede behave themselves like lyons in their houses towards those that will not doe their worke according to their minde but if they will follow their businesse they regard not how lewd and wicked they be otherwise If they will not presenttly serve their turne they will not labour to make them better but turne them away And so it comes to passe that they which are filthie or lazie or ignorant remaine so still and the Land swarmes with a generation of deboshed servants so that t is hard to finde a faithfull servant and all for want of execution of wholesome Discipline in private families Thus much for the former dutie concerning God The second concernes ourselves For the better performing of this dutie note that there are three combinations or couplements in the familie First there are the husband and the wife Secondlie Parents and children Thirdlie Master and servants That a familie may be well-ordered it is requisite that these three couplements which stand in relation each to other doe keepe their ranke The dutie of the husband is that hee dwell with his wife as a man of understanding giving honour unto her as the weaker vessell and loving her as his owne flesh and be not bitter unto her The Wifes dutie is to submit her selfe unto her husband and to doe him good and not evill all the dayes of her life The dutie of Parents is to bring up their children in the knowledge of Gods will and in some lawfull calling wherein they may further the Common-weale The dutie of Children is to obey their Parents The dutie of Masters is to provide for their servants foode and raiment and sufficient imployment they must also take order that they may be instructed and if neede be corrected The dutie of Servants is to honour their Masters though they be but meane men and to obey them with feare and trembling not answering againe but doing service to them in singlenesse of heart as unto Christ. All these points are so plainly set down in the holy Scriptures that they need not explanation but execution And where any of these couplements keepe not their ranke or neglect the forenamed duties the familie cannot be well ordered Wherefore as we love order and reverence the God of order let us set our selves from this day forward every one of us to keepe his owne order that so every severall familie being well ordered the whole Common-wealth may come into good order and consequently that God may be moved to remove from us his judgements of plague famine and unseasonable weather which our manifold disorders have brought upon us There is none of us but now and then cries out upon the disorder in the Land and prayes for reformation But assuredly in vaine doe wee looke for publike reformation unlesse wee will every one reforme our owne families As long then as we live disorderly our selves or keepe any disordered person in our houses whether sonne or daughter man-servant or maid-servant yea or any kinseman or stranger wee are enemies to our owne desires and which is more adversaries to the Common-weale Which imputation if wee doe justly abhorre then let us with all our might endeavour every one of us from the highest to the lowest according to the holie commandement of the Lord of Lords to set our houses in order Deo Patri Filio et Spiritui sancto sit omnis laus honor gloria in aeternum AMEN FINIS