Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	neglect_v	parent_n	3,017	5	9.3090	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56991	The wise virgin, or, A wonderfull narration of the hand of God wherein his severity and goodnesse hath appeared in afflicting a childe of eleven years of age, when stricken dumb, deaf and blinde through the prevalence of her disease, yet upon her wonderfull recovery was heard at severall times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects : to the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her / by James Fisher ...	Fisher, James, minister of the Gospel in Sheffield.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1004; ESTC R204524	88,491	208

of him that we should not be so carried away with the vanities of the world but we should give up our selves to ●hrist and make him our Habitation The same night about 12 a clock She had great extremity of pain and as conceived would gladly have spoken ma●ing signes that her heart was in Heaven as was thought by those who were present with her for she pulled at her brest seve●all times and held up her hand as high as she could reach looking up with her ●yes and then after a short space she spake and said Me is not in the hand of mine enemy but ●n the hand of my loving Father he is an ever-living ever-loving and glorious Lord God he is a wise God and he will not give his children one lash more then he sees good for them After this she spake no more until the eighth day of December which was the day after the Lord had graciously given her the use of her Senses and of her Understanding To close up this second part of the Narrative I shall adde this that some of these Speeches she uttered though but few of them will need such Apologie in weaknesse as a childe under such strange distempers as did somwhat confuse and perturbe her intellectuals but other things she uttered thorow the strength of the Spirits assistance extraordinarily guiding her tongue to utter such things as now she cannot tell that ever she did speak them There be some things oft repeated yet because either they are uttered with some variety and were things that it seems her heart was much carried forth to mention therefore I have set them down and hope they will not be tedious but may raise up further thoughts of them when you read them over again and compare them with the Scriptures in the Margin and if you knew the state of the family and the condition of some that came occasionally to hear her you would say there was a Divine hand that guided her tongue and that God was with her mouth adapting her speeches to their necessities And I suppose her heart was more affected with some truths before this ill fit and of those things she makes the most frequent mention But whilest I am Apologizing ●or her Repetitions some may tax me for Omissions some have said that she prophesied and no such passages are here related to which I answer there is no ground for such a report there is one passage related in one of her Speeches October the 19th in the end of page 107 and beginning of page 108. about Raising of the Maid unlesse they fancie this to be a Prophetick foretelling of her Recovery I know not any thing uttered by her nor could upon enquiry hear of any thing that might give ground for such a report but the truth is such Reporters I hear do some of them expect to have the gift of Miracles and it may be of prophesying and seemed to be much taken with Gods dispensations to this Childe hoping it would have conduced something to the promoting of their cause but are disappointed for God hath opened the mouth of a dumb childe to confute their follies It may be they prophesied that she would prophesie and so have proved themselves to be false prophets My hearts desire and prayer to God shall be that these Speeches may take as deep impression upon the hearts of the Readers as they did upon her body who was the Speaker God was pleased to hold her upon the rack for so many weeks nay moneths in which she endured grievous torturings and yet to enable her to speak such things surely so extraordinary a Teacher requires more then ordinary attention When Jonah who had bin so close a student in the Whales belly Colledge came to preach to the Ninevites● the strangenesse of the Relation concerning the Preacher might make his Sermons take more with them Shall not they rise in Judgement against the men of this Generation some it may be with Pharaohs South-sayers will acknowledge the finger of God is in this when his whole hand is visible but if men sleight such dispensations no wonder for if they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead God indulged to the Israelites its thought to enjoyne them Ceremonies of his devising to prevent their use of or hankering after such as were of mans devising God seems to indulge to the weaknesse of some in such extraordinary actings of his Providence in this Instance and a few others which might be mentioned but if the Father of the Family take all this care and yet men are not contented with his established Institutions but they are finding out new Inventions God will certainly correct this wantonizing humour It argues our stomacks are foul and crazy when we must have new dishes every meal and cannot ●eed upon the standing dishes of Gods Ordinances the King of Saints will nor be thus affronted but level and discharge the Ordnance of his power against those that disclaim the Ordinances of his Grace But I hope through the pourings out of the Spirit many shall be so wise as to observe these things and to profit by ordinary and extraordinary dispensations and surely They shall understand the loving kindenesse of the Lord. The third Part of the NARRATIVE Containing The wonderfull Recovery of this Childe of Wonders MAny dayes had been set apart in the Family to seek the face and favour of God on the behalfe of this afflicted Childe which Duties her parents as Obed-Edom the Ark were forward to entertain as at other times so now in this their afflicted condition They have had much experience that God was a God hearing prayer and therefore would not be beaten off from these now alas too much neglected meanes from which they had sucked much sweetnesse having found God sometimes marvellously helping of them till they were strong in the power of his might but alwayes helping them with a little help and bearing up their spirits under the trials though they did not obtain a full enlargement and when one told the father of this childe that the room was not able to bear so many as came to seek God in those duties he replied The more the better so that those who come can pray and believe But yet the Lord in wisdome seemed to us to be as one astonished as a mighty man that cannot save the Childes distempers of body growing more violent she having most terrible crying fits by reason of her extream pain which crying fits continued till she vomited blood and then she was quiet which were very grievous and afflictive to the spirits of all that heard her and the whole Family so continually under sadnesse and their sleep so broken that you might have seen Every one with their hands upon their loines as a woman in travell and all faces turned into palenesse Which dealings of the Lord with that family