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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	ephes_n	parent_n	1,205	5	9.1418	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20549	A plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.	1608 (1608)	STC 6959.5; ESTC S4611	122,696	160

spoken to him and therefore when he chuseth so honorable a messenger as is the parent to the child and not so much to reproue as to direct and assist him what regard ought to be had of his admonitions Reproofe of sinfull Sonnes contemptuous and refractary children which distast nothing so much as their fathers instructions They gape for his goods and long for his liuings greedily couet after their patrimony but they reiect his goodnes and loath his graces and will haue no portion of his wisedome If their father haue any faults or frailty which they should beware of or giue them allowance in ought that is vnlawfull his facts are authenticall presidents for them to follow his words are all oracles for their warrant but if he propose vnto them many holy examples of true piety if he faithfully informe them in the way of godlinesse and vertue his course of life is too austere for them to imitate and his precepts so strict that they are not bound to the practise of them But is it in the choise of children to inlarge or extenuate the power of patents at their pleasure Will they authorize them to be commanders for the seruice of sinne disclaim their iurisdiction when they deale for the Lord Let them know for in time they are like to feele it that this contempt is the forerunner of some iudgement Though the father happily can not punish them yet God is able though the father would pardon them yet the Lord will plague them Eli was more willing to haue his admonitions neglected then his sonnes to be destroied but God would not suffer them so to escape and therefore it is sayd That they obeied not the voice of their Father because the 1 Sam. 2 25. Lord would slaie them Instruction to parents to teach their children seeing the Lord so commandeth children that learne of the parents the duety of one sort is collected out of the praise of the other And as it is here gathered by necessary consequence so is it in other places expreslie declared As to the Ephesians Children saith he obey Ephes 6. 1. 4. your parents in the Lord. And ye fathers bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lord. This will be a meanes to frame them to obedience this will be a meanes to make them wise whereas the neglect thereof worketh in them stubbornnesse and folly Of which of all his sonnes had Dauid so much comfort as of Salomon And which of all Dauids Sons was so well taught as Salomon VVhich of all Dauids sonnes were so proude and rebellious as Absolom and Adonijah And which of them all were so much without good education and gouernment as they It is noted by the Holy Ghost concerning one of them that his father would not displease him from his childhood to say why hast thou done so It vsually commeth to passe and it is to be seene in most places that a dumbe parent maketh a deafe child and a fond father a foolish Sonne But a scorner c. They that most deserue to be reproued can least of all others endure reproofes The more guilty any man is the more vnwillingly he heareth Doct. 2 of his faults it is death for a peruerse sinner to be checked for his sinfull behauiour Rebuke not a scorner sayth the wisedome of God least he hate thee And againe A scorner loueth not him that Prou 9. 8. rebuketh him neyther will he goe vnto the wise Prou. 15. 2 First they are all proude men as appeareth by the opposition Reasons 1 which the Lord himselfe maketh with the scornefull he scorneth but he giueth grace vnto the humble Now to be taxed for misdemeanours Prou. 3. 34. is to such a matter of reproach and disgrace and that an haughtie heart and lofty minde can neuer well disgest They affect nothing more then applause and commendation nor minde any thing lesse then repentaunce and reformation and rebukes without amendment worke them nothing so much as shame and discredite and therefore how can they chuse but abhorre them Of such our Sauiour speaketh when he sayth That euerie man that euill doeth hateth the light neither Ioh. 3. 20. commeth to the light least his deedes should bee reprooued And accordingly Saint Paule testifieth that all thinges when they Ephes 5. 13. are reproued of the light are manifest for it is light that maketh all things manifest Such as keepe their houses vncleane wold not haue the filthines thereof discouered by a lamp and they that haue stolne goods lying by them in corners delight not to haue their roomes searched with a candle Secondly scornfulnes groweth from an habite of many great sinnes which men haue formerly committed and liued in like an vlcer gathered of diuers corrupt humours No Man is borne a scorner nor becommeth such a one at the first but is made so by degrees as appeareth in the first Psalme After he hath walked a while in the Counsell of the wicked he commeth to stand in the way of sinners and then at the last hee takes vppe his rest and sittes himselfe downe in the Seate of the scornefull So that by their owne sinnefull custome and GODS righteous curse their heartes are hardened to worke Jniquitie with ouer greedynesse and then will they maligne all those that dislike their course with bitternesse And adde yet further that there is in their consciences a hidden discouragement and priuy despaire both of pardon of their sinfulnesse and possibility to leaue it and that doth exasperate them against such as shall be dealing with it Who is willing to haue his filthy wound vnwrapped and layed open to his disgrace and raked into and tented to his torment when he taketh it to be altogether vncurable Jnstruction to declare our selues to be no scorners by opening Vse 1 our eares to Christian admonitions and rebukes which is a note of vnfayned piety and wisedome An vngodly man may be reproued but he cannot harken to a reproofe and a foole may haue rebukes offred to him but he will neuer imbrace them nor rebuke his owne sinfull hart when he is rebuked by others for his wicked waies Who can say he is so innocent that he deserueth no blame for his faults who can say he is so well natured that he can amēd his faults though he be neuer tould of any who can say that he is too good for any man to giue him admonition Dauid looked as well to his waies as other men doe and had as good a nature as other men haue and was of as great place as other men be and yet he maketh request to God to giue him friends that woulde helpe his soule against his sinnes Oh let the righteous smite me Psal 141 5. saith he for that is a benefite and let him reproue me and it shall be a precious oile c. Reproofe of them that shew themselues scorners by professing that they scorne all manner of censures

hath and falleth into great want and necessity A little with good husbandry is better than a great portion Doct. with vnthriftines It is not greatly materiall how much men haue to begin with but how well and wisely they guide their affaires He that is painfull and prudent in his businesse notwithstanding his wealth be small is rising from the bottome towards the toppe and he that is remisse and carelesse in his state though his substance be great is falling from the toppe towards the bottome Tending to this purpose there are many sentences both in this booke and in other places of Scripture as where it is sayd that by wisedome an house is builded and with vnderstanding it is established And by Prou. 24. 3. 4. knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all pretious and pleasant riches By house here like as els where he meaneth men whole estate the founding and finishing and furnishing whereof being all ascribed to wisedome of which one especiall point is to be industrious as is also the establishment and supportance of it And contrary by slothfulnesse which is a great branche of folly the Eccl. 10. 18. roofe of the house goeth to decaie and by idlonesse of the hands the house droppeth through And for this cause is that exhortation giuē in the 27. Chapter Be diligent to know the state of thy flocke and Prou. 27. 23. take heede of the beards For ritches remaine not alwaies nor the crowne from generation to generation As if he should haue sayde let not thy great substaunce bring thee to neglect thine affayres least the neglect of thine affaires bring thy great subst●nce to nothing What though thou haue large and ample possessions and dignity left to thee by thy ancestors Yet if thou be carelesse and heedlesse in thy gouernment thou art like to leaue neither welth nor honour to thy posterity First the earth and the fruits thereof were created aswell for Reasons 1 the poore as the rich and appointed for their vse to yeelde them foode who shall painfully trauaile therein Gen. 3. 19. Secondly discretion and industry make gaine of seasons and places and opportunities and many commodities which indiscretion and idlenesse either see not or marke not or get not through want of labour and paines taking Thirdly the promise of blessing is made to them that are faithfull and diligent without respect of persons and the slothfull and vnthrifty haue the curse threatned against them whatsoeuer their conditions be He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread Prou 28. 19. but he that followeth the idle shall be satisfied with pouertie Vse 1 Consolation for poore beginners that haue little or nothing to take to if they haue wills to take paines and wisedome to deale discreetly and faithfulnes to walk vprightly in their callings It is neither vnpossible nor vnlikely that beginning with one Cow at first they may attaine to many at last that one lamb may grow to a flocke of sheepe that a small tenement or cottage may be turned into a freehold or Farme When Iacob came into Padan Aram he brought onely his staffe in his hand but when hee departed thence he droue away sundry flockes and diuers sorts of cattell For God had ordained the fields aswell to maintain Iacob though he was but a stranger there and in place of a seruant as it did Laban who was an inhabitant in the country and had hired him onely for his owne turne And albeit that many diligent men find not the earth and their labors to yeeld them such plenty as therby to become opulent haue much aforehād yet how many of them faile of sufficiency as not annually from time to time to be prouided for And then if they be not destitute of apparell if they be not depriued of competent meate and drinke if they want not those things that are needfull for them this Scripture is truly verified to the comfort of all that apply themselues to any good trauells that much foode is by tillage for the poore Confutation of them that when their state is shrunke their wealth cōsumed are as vnrighteous in misplating their cōplaints as the very vnthrifty in mispending their portions Some par●e of the blame must lie vpon the greatnes of their charge some vpon the negligence of their seruants some vpon the smalnesse of their liuings some vpon the vnfaithfulnes of them whom they trusted and gaue word for some vpon the hardnesse of the season vnseasonablenes of the weather but nothing vpon their owne euill husbandry and sinfulnes But why did they entertaine such false seruants and trust such vnfaithfull friends why would they for ostentation burden themselues with more in family then were needful As for the other causes haue not some of their neighbors as many children and as little liuing as they and that in the same times and places wherein they liue And they prosper and decay not their substance is augmented and not diminished they haue ynough for their own present inioyment and surplusage to leaue to theirs after them But tillage say they which inforceth a necessity of housekeeping hath brought vs downe and therefore we lay downe tillage and giue vp housekeeping and so we hope to recouer our selues againe But sithence God doth commend tillage as profitable to euery degree and yeelding food plentifully to all why do they traduce it as a thing that were hurtfull and cause of vndoing to any Doth it not come often to passe that many by ouerthrowing of that do ouerturne their whole estate and they that pick such a quarrell at housekeeping are driuen to make sale of all and leaue themselues no house to keepe Reproofe of their folly that thinke the very hauing of lands and goods sufficient for perpetuall maintenance howeuer they order them They neuer dreame that wealth is subiect to waste when it is not well managed and that their state may fall into a consumption if it be not heedfully looked vnto Hence it is that they are so greedy to prouide liuings and riches for their childrē but no wisedome discretion how to vse them Nay they traine them vp in pride and idlenes and other foule sins as though their desire were to haue them expert and skilfull spendalls they set them betime to learne the art and trade of vnthriftines whiles themselues liue that they may swiftly run through their patrimony and inheritance when they are dead Verse 24. He that spareth his rod hateth his sonne but he that loueth him chastneth him betime HE that spareth his rod which withhouldeth due correction from his child when it is needfull hateth his sonne becommeth his enemy though not in affection yet in effect by omitting a duety so necessary for his welfare But he that loueth him vnfainedly with a ●●●nd affection and the loue of a godly father correcteth him betime The words in the Originall tongue are of great force for this betime which seemeth