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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
A67760	An infallible vvay to farewell in our bodies, names, estates, precious souls, posterities : together with, mens great losse of happinesse, for not paying, the small quitrent of thankfulness : whereunto is added remaines of the P.A., a subject also of great concernment for such as would enjoy the blessed promises of this life, and of that ot come / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y165; ESTC R3044	119,764	146

canst spare or if thou hast nothing to sell yet God commandeth thee rather then thou shouldest neglect these Works of Mercy to labour with thy hands that thou mayest have to give unto him that needeth Epbes. 4. 28. And therefore excuse not thy neglect of this duty by saying that thou hast nothing for them unless thou hast nothing to waste upon thy superfluous vanities nothing to sell unless thou art unable by thy honest labour to earn thy living and art thy self such an one as needeth by others to be relieved that the poorest are not exempted from this duty we may see in the example of the poor Widow who was so commended by our Saviour for casting into the Treasury her two mites which was all her substance Mark 12. 43. In the Macedonians who being themselves poor gave even above their ability to the relief of those that were poorer 2 Cor. 8. 2. In the Apostles Acts 3. 6. and in our Saviour Christ himself who though he were so poore that he lived upon what others out of their love and duty ministred unto him as appears Luke 8. 3. yet he himself gave Alms to those who were in greater want as we may gather John 12. 6. 8. Yea if we did indeed rightly consider it our small means should move us the rather to give and the more carefully to exercise this Christian duty since this is the means whereby being poor we may become richer as I have plentifully proved in the Prevention of Poverty Chap. 30. which I may not stand to repeat See Prov. 3. 9 10 11. 24 25. 28. 27. Psal. 112. 3. Isa. 32. 8. Luke 6. 38. 2 Cor. 9. 6. Which Scriptures shew that giving to the poor does not weaken but much strengthen our Estates and is so far from being the cause of our want and poverty that it is the onely means to keep us from it and bring to us plenty and abundance Besides if having little we are content in obedience to God to part with somewhat we perform a duty the more acceptable to God and in the day of Christ's appearing we shal be so much the more richly rewarded and for the present our Work will be so much the more commendable as wee may see Mark 12. 43. 2 Cor. 8. 2. Neither are we to imagine that if we be careful in feeding Christ that he will be careless in feeding us that he will deny us meat who hath given us his precious blood that he will suffer us to want Earthly tr●●les who hath provided for us heavenly riches Let such more then heathenish diffidence be far from us who professe our selves to be of the Houshold of Faith But rather let us believe God under hope above hope that is when in respect of humane means and second causes we have cause to despaire as Abrahams in the case of a Child when there was no possibility in Nature nor prohability in Reason CHAP. LX. Obj. BUt there are many Richer by far then thee who give as little as thou dost therefore if they neglect to give much more mayest thou as thou supposest and yet be excused To this I answer If thou wilt do as others or as the most and richest do then wo unto thee for the most and greatest go the broad way to destruction or if thou wilt not live by Precepts but by Examples why dost thou then propound for thy pattern those who are carnal covetous and not rather the example of our Saviour Christ and the holy men of God whose bounty even out of their poverty is for this very purpose recorded in the Scriptures I but wil the Worldling say I have a great Charge and many Children and therefore I must not give away my Goods to strangers for the Apostle teacheth us that Parents must lay up for their Children and that he who neglecteth this duty hath denyed the Faith and is worse then an Infidel 1 Tim. 5. 8. Unto whom I answer with Bazil They who are miserable having Wife and Children would not be liberal if they were without them Again Was not the Gospel written a●wel to the married as unmarried To Parents as wel as to those who have no Children Thirdly Didst thou desire Children of God or did he give thee Children that thou mightest make them a Plea and Priviledge to neglect his Commandments and thy duty and love to Christ Or maist thou not justly fear if thou thus abusest the blessing of posterity that God wil lessen their number lighten thee of this Charge and so take away thy excuse by depriving thee of thy chiefest comfort The which should be most just with God so to punish thee seeing thou makest Idols of them loving them better then God who gave them But thy Children are dear unto thee and must be provided for and reason good Yet let thy God be dearer and let them not make thee to neglect him who gave thee to thy self and them unto thee and hath provided all that thou enjoyest both for thee and them Provide for them a competency or sufficiency but deny not unto God of thy abundance and superfluity But I may answer thee in thine own words He that provideth not for his family is worse then an Infidel If thou art a Believer Christ's Family is thy Family Epth. 3. 15. Heb. 2. 11 13 14 16 17. They are thy Mother Brethren and Sisters If we be members of one body we should think the discommodities of our Brethren pertain to our selves Men do well to provide for their Wife and Babes but not then when the present necesstities of others cannot be supplyed without the same bee lessened How did they in the second and fourth of the Acts provide for their Families Wives and Children when they sold their Houses and Lands and gave away all the money Were they worse then Infidels because they were more careful to supply the present wants of the Saints then to provide for themselves Wives and Children 2 Cor 8. 14. Acts 4. 34 35 36 37. The Psalmist speaking of the wicked says They leave their substance to their Babes Psal. 17. 14. They put Wife and Children into their Wills but leave out Christ and his Children because they love Wife and Children more then Christ. But let such know He that loveth Father or Mother more then me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 37. Luke 10 36 37 ●8 If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple Luke 14. 26. And the Apostles could say Behold we have for saken all and followed thee Mat. 19. 27. 29. 2 Cor. 4. 18. But lastly let men leave to their Children never so great Estates they shall be never the better for thein if they have not the blessing of God withal And is it likely that he wil bless unto them thine Estate which is gotten and raked together by unjust keeping that which he