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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	mother_n	parent_n	5,127	5	9.0796	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15834	The nurses bosome· A sermon vvithin the Greene-yard in Norwich. On the guild-day when their maior takes his oath. On Tuesday Iune 18. 1616. Preached by the parson of Southwalsham. Hereunto is added, Iudahs penance, the sermon preached at Thetford before the iudges in Lent. Mar. 10. 1616.	Younger, William, b. 1572 or 3.	1617 (1617)	STC 26096; ESTC S120582	46,815	66

compassion imprinted in the nature of the Magistrate towards the people which this word Bosome very significantly layes forth Plinie for therein we know are the affections shrined and designed therefore very fitly for the place of the peoples welfare comfort and safetie Carry them in thy Bosome What Carry them vpon thine Head No! For then he had humored our Anabaptists well who would set their feete vpon the neckes of their Gouernours or rather smite off their heads as Tarquinius topped off the fairest Poppies in the Garden Tarqu. superbus Liuius Decad. 18.1 Psal 137.7 Luk. 19.14 Their voice is as the voice of Edom so speake they of authoritie Downe with it downe with it euen to the ground Doe they say Nolumus hunc We will not haue this man Nay wee will not haue any man to rule ouer vs. Againe Carry them vpon thy Back No the Magistrate must not expose himselfe to the reproches of such as liue vnder his gouernment so he may become oppressed of his owne people The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made long furrowes Psal 129.3 Iob 4.8 saith Dauid But they that plow iniquitie shall reape the same Iob 4.8 Neither doth he say vpon his fist like a Faulknor to keepe on and let off at his pleasure but in his Bosome the safest sweetest inwardest comfortablest place of refuge and defence And how in his Bosome The comparison lyes within an hayres breadth As a Nurse beareth her sucking Child which as it argues the very necessary dependance of the people vpon the Magistrate for how can the sucking infant want or forbeare the breast of the Nurse and how pittifull were it that it should be left destitute hauing none to care for it Gen. 21.15 as may appeare in Hagars child Gen. 21.15 So what a cōfusion what a mischief would their grow amongst people Iudges 17.1 that should haue no gouernour euery man to doe what seemes good in his owne eyes whereas the heards of cattell haue their leaders flockes of Sheepe haue their keepers swarmes of Bees haue their King I say as it makes for the necessitie of gouernment so on the other side it implies that neuer was the Bosome of a mother more tender open safe comfortable to her little one her sucking Babe the latest or loueliest fruit of her wombe then the Bosome of the Magistrate to be opened I meane his heart inlarged toward his people to prouide for their safety to procure their welfare righten their wrongs and in a word to giue them speedie and timely refreshment in all their distresses Cary them in thy Bosome This being so obserue from hence diuers points First we see here the prophets phrase to be very consonant and agreeable to this of Moses in that hee cals Kings and Princes Nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers Esay 49.23 Hence followes it necessarily that aboue all things the Magistrate be throughly seasoned with Religion and neither irreligious or popish but that hee be truely and soundly affected For if it be so which they fay is true in Nature that what disease or infection the mother or nurse hath the sucking child partaketh of it and as the parent is affected so for the most part are the childrens inclination surely so fares it in this Giue me a Magistrate that is godly religious forward in Christian duties and for the most part the people will be so affected that way which the master Bee flyeth the rest will follow and nothing is more forcible and perswasiue with the vulgar Confessor Papa Confessor Populus Cyprian Iosuah 24.32 then the examples of their gouernours which if they be godly are notable meanes to draw them on to godlinesse and Religion On the other side let a Magistrate be prophane riotous dissolute luke-warme making no conscience of frequenting the exercises of the Word the publique worship and seruice of God in keeping the Lords Sabboth and the like the people for the most part will be of his bent being giuen ouer vnto any wicked vice O how wofull and dangerous is his example These I say are bad Nurses their breasts are infected their milke poysoned it were pitty a thousand times the people of God should come so neere into their Bosomes Que semel est imbuta recens seruauit odorem Testa diu Horat. The very soile and moisture will change the nature of that plant which it nourisheth a new vessell will long sanour of that liquor which was first powred into it and the yong child receiueth not onely the Milke Laurentia was his Nurse and called Lupa 〈◊〉 the wolfe but therewith all the manners and disposition of the Nurse He that suckes VVolues Milke shal haue woluish conditions as Mithridates spake of Romulus It is said of Iupiter that in his infancie hee was nursed vp with Goates Milke I am sure if the Poets lye not he proued a wanton In the choise of a Nurse wee ayme at two things First that shee be of an whole me complexion Secondly that shee be of an honest condition What should I say Magistrates are Nurses let them take heed they haue no wicked vice predominant in them the people who are to reside in their Bosomes will draw infection Let such a one therfore when he takes his place vpon him humble himselfe by prayer vnto God Melius est ciaitatem regià viro optimo quàm à lege optimâ Arist lib. 1. Pol. and labour by all meanes to purge and sanctifie his conscience so shall his milke I meane his Gouernment bee wholesome and pure God shall haue the glory and the people wonderfull comfort and contentment It is farre better and more necessarie that a Citie be gouerned by a Magistrate that is a good man then by a good Law Againe further the Bosome of the Nurse or Mother is a defence or shelter for the child where the poore infant shrowdes it selfe from forreine iniuries and wrongs God hath appointed Magistrates that they should be defences for their people their Bosomes Sanctuaries Archilus dixit Iudicem Aram idem esse pariter enim c. Eras Apopth therefore it was fitly said of one that a Iudge and an Altar were the same Pariter enim ad vtrumque confugunt qui iniuria afficiuntur For alike to each of these haue euery man recourse that suffer wrong All the hope and comfort of the oppressed lies in the mercy of the Magistrate To their Bosome comes the Fatherlesse the Orphan the poore Widdow there they hope to haue succour and reliefe for the iniuries and wrongs which they haue sustained and if they finde it not vnder the shadow of their wings where shall they seeke it Remember this point the holy Ghost vseth not words and phrases in vaine you shew your selues vnnaturall when you shut vp your Bosomes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 1.78 and haue not as Zachary sang euen bowels of compassion to your people to relieue them in their iust causes