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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
A68194	The displaying of the Protestantes, [and] sondry their practises, with a description of diuers their abuses of late frequented Newly imprinted agayne, and augmented, with a table in the ende, of all suche matter as is specially contained within this volume. Made by Myles Huggarde seruant to the Quenes maiestie.	Huggarde, Miles.	1556 (1556)	STC 13558; ESTC S118795	74,272	276

doctours argued of theirs The oldedoctors would committe the same to the censure and iudgement of the churche But the newe doctours woulde preferre theyr woorkes vpon theyr owne iudgementes Pride the mother of heresie begatte these her chyldren to resist their predecessors But god from time to time hath resisted the proude and hath endewed the meke with his grace The prophet Esaye saieth Woe be vnto you which seme wyse in your owne eies and prudent before your selues Therefore God requireth suche to be ministers interpreters of his worde which are humble and meke Suche I saye whiche wyll mistruste theyr owne wittes and crye with the prophete Dauid Giue me vnder standing O lord and I wyl serche thy lawe to thintente I may learne thy commaundementes Doubtles the showers of that heauenlye wysedome haue not their discourse vpon hyghe moūtaynes but into the lowe valleys Therfore they that wyll be partakers of the true vnderstanding of goddes misteries ought not to contempne the godly expositions of the auncient fathers but with all humilitie to submit themselfes as scholars glad too learne willing to embrace such holsome doctrine as is taught in the churche of God And not to play the partes of vnthriftie and proude scholars as the moste part of our hereticall preachers were who went about to correct their maisters but with attentife eares to heare reade peruse and then to receiue as God shall put in minde CVrsed speakers also in vsing their tongues after a most vile sort not only agaist y ● church the spouse of Christe but also against our princes the Kyng and Quenes maiesties and other magistrates appointed by God too the rule and gouernemēt of this realme And howe abhominablie they haue from tyme to tyme yll sayd of the kynges maiestie reuerence and shame constrayneth silence vnto whome they oughte to beare al obedience considering it hath pleased the Quenes maiestie to ioyne her selfe with hym in marriage being as nowe one body so that any iniurie or slaūder doone or spoken against hys grace thesame is doone to them both I can not chose but wonder to consider what cause shuld prouoke them to malice his persone What vice haue thei harde wherin his grace is speciallye noted ▪ Unles temperāce sobrietie and deuocion be counted for vices What ill proportiō of body or deformitie of vysage vnlesse they wil seme to correcte nature ▪ Wel fieth the note of any special vice or lacke of natures dutie hathe not moued them what should be the cause then With what vertue are they offended Not with temperance I am sure for that is a decent qualitie in a king and as Tully sayeth It is the ornament of mannes lyfe and the appeasemēt of the passions of the mynde Nor with sobrietie I dare saye for that garnisheth all other qualities And if deuocion be the cause of offences they muste or oughte to be angrye with themselfes For what man is there that lyueth but he hath a certē zeale or sparcle of feare towardes the power diuine Then the kinges maiestie being a vertuous prince of himselfe a noble personage let vs cease of all sclaunder if not for his owne sake yet for the Queenes maiesties sake his true and laufull wyfe and our vertuous and godlye soueraygne But as the protestauntes haue vttered their vncharitable stomakes vpon the temporall magistrates so haue thei vsed the like vpon the spiritual But these are they mencioned in sainte Iude whiche despyse Rulers speake yll of those whiche are in authoritie Yet Michael tharchaungell sayeth he when he stroue against the deuel about the body of Moyses durst not geue a railing sentence but sayde our lorde rebuke the. A wonder it is to se these cursed speakers triumphe vpon their knowledge of the scriptures and yet haue no power to followe the same I praye God they may be lesse bablers and make both thē and all mē better followers For we se manifestlye the plagues of God imminent for misusing his grace blaspheming his name Yet many especially the proteūātes haue no grace to impute it to impietie of lyfe But they obiecte the sayde plagues of God to the cause of religion as though their owne synnes were free and vnworthye punyshement and as though the catholike religiō now vsed were a thinge of late inuented whiche religion hathe continued firme and stedfast sithe the raigne of kynge Ethelbert who was conuerted to embrace christianitie by saint Augustine in the yere of our Lorde after the computation of Beda D. lxxx vi tyll within these .xxi. yeres And also long before the time of Ethelbert the faith of Christ was yet receiued by one Lucius kynge of this realme who sent Ambassadours to Rome too Pope Eleutherius that it might please him to sende some of his learned men to preache the name of Christe and too minister Baptisme Who moste willingly accōplyshed the kinges desire in the yeare of our lorde a hundred fiftie syxe Soo that it appereth the religion nowe restored by the Quenes maiestie is not of newe inuencion but of great antiquitie And so longe as this Realme was in vnitie thereof vndiuided it continued in inspeakeable welth and prosperitie in marueylous loue and amitie in true dealing and honest simplicitie and in al kinde of god lines and pietie But since it fell from vnitie of religiō it hath fallen from the grace of God into al kyndes of wickednes skarcitie falshode deceyt and other abhominable vices and from the accustomed valiaunce in feates of armes into effeminate myndes cōtaminated with horrible le●herie The experiēce of which vices piteously we dayly fele as a iust rewarde of GOD for breache of the vnitie of his religion DIsobedient to fathers mothers whiche vice our lord knoweth is vniuersally frequented For what childe for the most parte doth honour his parentes according to his dutie What reuerēce doth he vse towardes thē whiche of their owne fleshe and bloud hath brought him forth in to the world A dere collope it is ●hat is cut from the owne fleshe yet that degenerate collope I meane the childe vnnaturally resisteth disobeieth the parentes But hereof the parentes maye thanke them selues whiche for wante of good education nosel them vp with wantonnes suffring the raynes of youthe to bee let go and vnbridled not considering the heate of youth too be prone and redy to al vices as He rodiane sayeth The myndes of youth from good and honest discipline are prone and apt to vanitie pleasures The auncient trade of this Realme in education of youthe before the late tyme replenyshed with all myschief was to yoke the same with the feare of God in teachyng the same to vse prayer mornyng and euening to be reuerēt in the church at their first enteraunce into the same too make the sygne of the crosse in their foreheades too make beysaunce to the magistrates to discouer their heades when they mete with men

of auncient yeres and of hore heares accordyng to Ouides verses Age in tyme past was had in great price And to a hore head eche chylde did aryse But now cleane contrary nothyng is lesse vsed then morning and euening praier more vnreuerence in the churche neuer more frequented nor disobedience too magistrates and aged men at no tyme more practised And as for repairing to the churche is counted a thing of no importance For howe can the chylde put that in practyse which the parentes thēselues neglecte The parentes beinge infected with heresie the childe must folowe the same and must do as the yonge Crab dyd where of we reade a prety tale in Esopes fables who beyng commaūded of his dame not to go so croked but to go more strayght O mother ꝙ he go thou before and I wyl folowe In lyke maner if the parentes wold walke more duely in their vocation and dutie the children would doo the same But as the fathers are so are the chyldren The ill lyfe and hereticall trade of the parentes maketh suche vnhappy and disobedient chyldren who in the ende except thei be loked vnto in time wyll be the fathers bane For the chylde if his father be a catholike man will not be ashamed to say he hath a papiste to his father or an old doting fole to his mother A pitifull hearyng that heresye the regent of mischiefe shoulde beare suche rule without correction to cause suche enormities in youth to rayle vpō the parentes wherfore to redresse the commōvice in chyldren of disobedience let them with godly perswasiōs bryng them vp and chiefly in the feare of God and reuerence too his religion Let them followe the example of Tobias who brynging vp his sonne Tobie after a godly sorte had his sonne to proue according to his education lyued infinit yeares too the ioye of his parentes The parentes of Susanne bringing vp their doughter in the feare of God had their ioyes doubled by y ● marueylous deliuerie of their doughter out of the handes of the cruell iudges Contrary wise if thei suffer their chyldren to persist in wycked and wanton life without due correction they shall fele the sorowe of Hely the priest whome for wycked education of his childrē God did greatly punishe Here also were worthye of remembraunce the correction whiche ought too be doone too apprentises and other seruauntes who beinge noselled in libertie are not onelye odiouse to the worlde but also vnthryftye towardes their maisters and in maner become maisters thēselfes Whose brynging vp is so leude that they be growen to suche insolencie that no good mā or priest passing by thē in the stretes can escape without mockes But let their maisters take hede for I beleue when thei see their tyme they wyll mocke them to in th end hoping one day to haue the spoile of their goodes Besides this their dissolute lyues are suche that no regarde they haue at all to repayre to the churche vpon the holy dayes but flocke in clusters vpon stalles either skorning the passers by or with their testamētes vtter some wyse stuffe of their owne deuise So that prayer is seldome seene to procede out of their graceles mouthes Therefore let all maisters take hede vnto their seruātes and bringe them vp bothe in the feare of God and of themselues lest they wyshe in tyme too come that they had refrayned thē with due correction VNthankefull vngodly and vnkynde thei be in sparing from thankesgeuing chiefly too God the authour of all goodnes and next to the Quenes maiestie our naturall soueraigne lady for the restitucion of thancient and true religiō of this realme which of late was putte to exile and in stede of the same a straunge and base woman called Heresye intertaigned who hathe so polluted this countrey with bastardes misbegotten children that onles it had pleased the diuyne maiestie to haue ioyned in mariage the moste excellente and vertuouse Phylip our Kyng and seueraign nowe with the true inheritour and moste Godly matrone Mary oure sayde Quene the bloud of the sayde basebegotten children had vnnethes bene abolyshed And yet the ingratitude of vs their subiectes is such especially the Protestantes that almoste it is intollerable The vnkindenesse of vs in this so ample benefite is extended soo farre that in maner we deny any benefite receyued at all Yea and for the moste parte in recompence of that benefite alredy receyued we rendre vnthankefulnes But I feare me as Salomon sayeth He that doeth render an euyll turne for a good euyll shall not departe his house I praye God to spare that plague from thys realme whiche for vnthankefulnes it iustly deserued I feare me a great many in these dayes for that they see not the deuyses of theyr vnthankeful heartes come forwardes which daily they imagine againste the Magistrates plaie Achitophels part who seing that his practyses was not executed against kyng Dauid according to his cancred stomake wēt home to his house hanged hym selfe But in these oure ingrate doinges we are much worse then the poore beastes of the yearth which would remēbre a benefite long after they haue receiued it And no marueil For as our creacion farre excedeth y e brute beast so is our liuyng in some thynges to theirs inferior What murmuring grudging slaūders rumors lyes bookes tales are in these daies caried abroad in the world against all sortes of magistrates whom we ought to obey for conscience sake according to the admonition of saint Paule But if stay might be made here to touch the particuler abhominations vsed of these loitring lubbers this volume would growe to an infinite bignes May not the kyng Quenes maiesties saye to these murmurers as the valiant Themistocles sayde to the Atheniens whiche murmured againste his laudable feates done for the libertie of the citie Why make you these tumultes and rumours against them of whō by manifolde waies you haue receiued so many cōmodities May not oure Byshoppes and other ecclesiasticall gouernors say the like to this carelesse multitude that Pompeius sayd too Marcellinus whoo receiuyng many benefytes at his handes forsoke him and ranne to Caesar that afterwardes he was not ashamed to reuile Pompeius openly in the Senate house at Rome But with a connenient moderate taunt Pōpeius said these wordes Art thou not ashamed Marcellꝰ to speake euil of him by whose benefite of a domme and spechelesse man thou art made eloquent and of an hungry sterueling thou art now so well satisfied that thou canst skarce refraine vomite What shal I say more of this their ingratitude whiche in ciuile lyfe is a thing moste odious But exhorte al men to take a new purgacion and to purge their stomakes of this their malancolike grudginges least the matter do growe to suche abundance that no purgacion wyll serue Let them cōsider the plague which redounded vpon the murmuring stomakes of Chore Dathan