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duty_n	child_n	natural_a	parent_n	3,844	5	8.8930	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15494	A loyal subiects looking-glasse, or A good subiects direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himselfe against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page set downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie. By William Willymat.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1604 (1604)	STC 25761; ESTC S120179	57,436	78

the one good and very necessarie the other naughtie and very pernicious this good feare said they turneth men away from wicked prohibited dishonest things The profits of good feare and maketh them staied and well aduised in all their actions Plutarke writing of this kinde of good feare calleth it one of the elements or grounds of vertue Plutarke his opiniō of the good feare affirming it to be most needfull requisite for thē who cary a mind rather to feare the practise of euil thē to feare the punishment for the same because the first which is the practise of euill is the cause of the later that is of the punishmēt for euill to so many as wallow in wickednesse which neuer escapeth without it iust reward sooner or late Therfore a prudent wel aduised loyall subiect ought to haue this feare alwaies before his eies Timor filialis this feare I may not vnaptly call a childly or child-like feare because it is vnseperable ioyned with true loue a reuerent estimation of the thing feared This I take to be the same feare which the wisdome of God by Salomon required as due both vnto God king Pro. 24.21 This is the same feare which the good subiects of wise king Salomon gaue vnto him after that he had giuen so wise a sentence and iudgment betweene the two harlots pleading for the liuing childe where it is thus said All Israel heard the iudgment which the King had iudged 3. King 3. vers 28. and they feared the King for they sawe that the wisedome of God was in him to doe iustice In this feare in this kinde of feare loue and a reuerent regarde or account and feare do all three concurre and meet together and that in such a ioynted and vnseperable a sort that you can not seuer them one from an other The dutie of this filiall or child-like feare of this good and profitable feare is to cause and stirre vp good subiects to haue an eye vnto the good and safetie of higher powers and magistrats to loue them as well as to feare them and therewithall to account of them esteeme and regard them in most reuerent maner alwaies being carefull and watchfull least through any disobedience or disloyall action they should offend The nature of the good or child-like feare explicated by two similitudes euen like as the good and dutifull child is afraide to offend or incur the displeasure of his good kind louing and naturall parents or as the good and louing wife is afraid to misbehaue her selfe either by saying or doing any thing that her louing and kind husband may iustly take offence at The duties or effects of the good or child-like feare The duty of this good feare is to make men both apter readier to vndertake to execute all good godly vertuous and laudable matters whensoeuer any good and iust occasion shal be ministred also more stayed and better-aduised not rashly wilfully and inconsideratly to take in hand any wicked vnlawfull vniust ambitious malicious disloyall and rebellious practises and attempts that by the sequile thereof may procure dammage danger wreake confusion or ouerthrow of our kings rulers gouernours or of the common wealth or perhapps of our selues our lands goods and bloud for euer If wee conferre and compare together the workings and effects of the feare of a towardly scholler to his schoolmaster and of his good feare What feare in the scholer worketh towards his schoolemaister the like doth the feare of the subiect towards his soueraigne it shall helpe greatly both to the better and plainer vnderstanding hereof and also it shall greatly auaile to stirre vp and induce the hearts of all circumspect and wise subiects to make more accompt of it the more willingly to embrace it First a reuerent feare imprinted in the hart of a scholler towards his schoolmaster bridleth restraineth him frō the contempt of his master expelleth from him all carelesnes and negligence Euen so this feare bridleth restrayneth a good subiect from all contempt carelesnesse negligence of his loyall and bounden duty towards his Soueraigne Emperor King Prince or any other subordinate magistrats The first vse of feare in a subiect Secondly the feare in the scholler to his maister causeth him to be the more attentiue to heare and the more diligent to learne whatsoeuer his maister enioyneth him Euen so this feare in the subiect towards his supreame head and his substitutes which also are the ordinance of God The second vse of feare in a subiect causeth him to be much more willing attentiue diligent to read heare learne and vnderstand the proceedings lawes ordinances acts and statutes of his king that he may the better know what is there allowed or forbidden and so liue in the more obedient subiection and not through either ignorance or w●lfull obstinatenesse to preferre his owne will before his lawfull magistrates and higher gouernours will What it is to disobay Princes gouernors lawes or rather before Gods will for when a subiect doth any thing stubbornly against the decrees lawes ordinances set forth by his naturall king and his most honorable counsellers not repugning but agreeable to Gods lawes then that subiect in so doing preferreth his owne will not only before the will of the king and his counsell as though he onely were wiser then they all but euen also before Gods will and so sinneth very dangerously against both God and man Therefore I say that this good and necessary feare helpeth greatly to stirre vp euery faithfull subiect heart to be contented both to learne and know so consequently to be ruled by good and wholsome politicall lawes and so therby to declare his subiection to Gods appointed deputies and vicegerents and therein euen to God himselfe But here some stubborne and foolish ignorant subiect in whose garden the seede of this good feare was neuer sowne An obiection may perhaps replie and say vnto mee O sir if the king himselfe commaunded me to do such a thing or such a thing then it would neuer grieue me to do it and obay but now such a one calleth on and would vrge me to it not so good a mans childe as I am or a base borne fellow worse then my selfe what shall I be subiect to such a one and obay what he will no no I will sooner do yea mary will I I wot what first To the replication of such an haughty broyling spirited An answer to an obiection and obstinate stubborne rebellious minded subiect I reioynd after this manner O thou man voide or ignorant of all dutifull feare belonging vnto Caesar learne and obserue that worthy and in this case that necessary Canon of God by S. Peter 1. Pet. 2.13 Submit thy selfe not onely vnto the King as to thy superiour but also vnto gouernours sent of the king And learne likewise of an other of