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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	love_n	parent_n	6,450	5	9.2665	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68512	A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of papistes and specially the parteners of the late rebellion. Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes. Sene and allowed.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18685.7; ESTC S113364	44,769	112

due respectes whereunto God by the law of nature hath bounde them in this world and this must so be for the other true vowe of renouncing was made before in Baptisme and remayned still in force To all these inconueniences and traitorous absurdities they must nedes be subiect which hold that the Church of Rome is the true Catholike Church of Christ and that the Catholike Church of Christ can not erre The horror of their cruelties to the people of their country of whom their country consisteth whose liues they haue regarded no more then shéepe yea no more then fleaes and that with such delite of torment as if they still cryed out as the heathen tyrant did fac vt sentiat se mori let him fele that he is dying as the Pope himself did that caused some of his Cardinales to be tormented in such maner by speciall cōmandement that he being in a garden vnderneth saying hys deuotions might heare them cry all this I referre to the large faithfull and learned explication of that good diligent and vertuous man Master Foxe in his Booke of Actes and Monumentes of the Church where as in a glasse doth euidently appeare what nature or any kinde respect to kinne reuerence pitie loue or countrey reigned or rather remayned in the furious hartes of Papistes how smothly soeuer the hypocrites wyth Crocodiles teares or wild Irish laughter do faine flatter and abuse those in whose power they be till they haue their time of auantage Though the remembrance of these thinges be bitter yet is it holsome And therefore let it not out of their hartes that haue harty care and specially charge of their countrey That clemencie and gentlenesse can not reclaime them from traitorous minds while they continue in Papistrie is as plaine and as true a forme of speach as if a man sholde say they must nedes be traytors so long as they be full of treason for treason and Papistrie are vnseparable while they be kept vnder euen as crueltie and Papistrie are vnseperable when they are gotten aboue Yet for some more ample opening of the truth of this conclusion let vs somewhat more wey their qualities with reasonable consideration and conference of their doinges If clemencie and benefites should be hable to reclaime them it must be for some regard that they must haue of the dutie of thankefulnesse for benefites receaued of those persons from whose sincerely louing minde toward them and not from any foreine enforcing cause they accompt the benefites to procede Wherein is to be searched how much they are likely to esteme such dutie by their weying other nere duties and agayne how well they acknowledge from whence this clemencie and benefites haue proceded For if the hiest and greatest duties of kindnesse moue them not then is small accompt to be made of their thankfulnesse for temporall commodities or at the least for bare suffering them to liue vnpunished And againe if the same impunitie and other beneficiall doinges be thought to come enforced from other or craftily wonne by their owne policie or so to come from your selfe as you could not chose then is your thanke fo far lost as there is no hope that euer any such meane can reclaime a Papist Surely he that regardeth not the hyest dutie will neuer regarde the meanest The dutie of the loue or feare of God can not hold a Papist from blasphemie against God The dutie of faith allegeance to his Prince can not kéepe a Papist from treason to his Prince The dutie of deare loue to his natural countrey can not withdraw a Papist from assenting to yea and procuring the spoyle destruction bondage and alienation of his countrey as I haue alredy proued The dutie of kinde and naturall pitie can not stay a Papist from murdering the feble sexe nor the silly tender infancie nor reuerend eldest age The dutie of familiaritie in youth of frendship in grauer yeares of continuall societie during all the life passed with heapes of mutuall commodities can not pull backe a Papist from immanitie of sacrificing his derest frendes The dutie of honor of Children to parentes or loue of parentes to children remoueth not a Papist from vnnaturall crueltie The dutie of entier loue and felowship betwene man and wife holdeth no place in the hart of a Papist No dutie of kinred no estimation of learning vertue no good respect that moueth good men to loue compassion once toucheth a stubburne Papist Al these duties we haue sene broken yea neglected and throwen away by Papistes And is there hope that clemencie can so farre winne them as to hold them in truth to the Prince from whom they receiue it if opportunitie serue to bring them out of her danger or her highnesse into their danger which God forbid Whensoeuer which God graunt neuer be her Maiestie person should stand in theyr curtesie it is euident that then the gate were open to their desires to theyr florishing to theyr conquest to theyr abilities of reuengyng and to their perfect triumphyng And will they trow you omit all these that they so earnestly gape for will they let passe any occasion that may bryng these and all in respect of her gracious clemencie and benefites no no that will not be It greueth me to thinke and I abhorre to write what opportunities they are lykely to séeke and vse hauyng now pressed so farre as they haue alreadie done with theyr enterprises shadowed with such hopes as theyr proclamation hath vttered But admit kyndenesse were in them for benefites where they impute them It is as well knowen as a common prouerb that where her Maiestie of her singular goodnesse of nature which yet were farre greater goodnesse if it be directed to the onely preseruation of good men and not further stretched and abused to the cherishyng of euill and dangerous men hath forborne and restrayned execution of law agaynst them which yet are the lawes made expressely for her Maiesties safetie theyr ordinarie saying is you can haue no law agaynst vs God so prouideth for vs hys chosen anointed that you can haue no law or if you haue you can not execute it god so preserueth theyr side forsoth so bridleth her Maiesties power by hyw own instinct or by theyr owne meanes of policie Sée the examples of theyr thankefulnesse Did euer those Papists whose liues were saued by good Byshop Cranmers meanes who were brought vp who were defended who were aduanced who were shelded from harme perill by hym ones requite hym with one drop of kyndnesse And yet they spake hym faire in hys prosperitie Auayled the great liberalitie of kyng Henry the viij to rayse vp any kinde remembrance in Papistes that were great in Quéene Maryes dayes to stay them from assentyng to the captiuitie and danger and sekyng the bloud of hys most noble daughter our most gracious soueraygne Ladie And yet duryng kyng Henryes reigne they shewed a seruiceable face as if they would