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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	owe_v	parent_n	5,339	5	9.4563	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30620	A soverain remedy for all kinds of grief opened and applyed in a sermon at the funeral of Mr. John Langham, the eldest son of Sr. James Langham, knight, a child of five years and an half old, who dyed at Cottesbrook in Northhamptonshire, July 29, 1657 : with a narrative of sundry remarkable passages concerning him before and in the time of his sickness / by Thomas Burroughes.	Burroughes, Thomas, b. 1611 or 12.	1662 (1662)	Wing B6132; ESTC R4359	39,217	52

pains of hell for ever A little before his death he brake out into these words My sins pardon my soul save for Christ his sake I cannot blame those worthy persons so neerly related to him though they mourn at parting with such a sweet and hopeful Child any more than I could blame them for feeling pain if one of their limbs were torn from another Only they must not mourn to despondency and I hope I gave them sufficient reason why before What an instrument of Gods glory might he have proved What a deal of service might he have done to God in all likelihood had he lived to old age But it was Gods doing I shall only make two or three Animadversions upon the whole and conclude all with five words of application How many are there that live to fifty or threescore years of whose life so good an account cannot be given as of this little one of five years of age and an half How many Gentlemen be there of whom when they die all that can be said is this They were born they did eat and drink and play and hunt and hawk and lived like so many wild Ass-colts never minding any thing that concern'd Gods glory or their own salvation either when they were children or after they came to mans estate and so died and dropt into hell How many others be there of whom when they die all that can be said is this They were born they did eat and drink and moil and labour for the bread that perisheth with all their might but neither knew nor cared to know what they were born for like bruit creatures only minding present things and thus spent fifty or threescore years and so died and went down to hell How much more comfortably might a Minister of the Gospel admit to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper such a Child as this notwithstanding his years than those of ten times his age that are children would to God they were like some children in understanding I shall make Application of what hath been said touching him in five words 1. To all in general to admire and adore Gods Grace which doth shew it self and work thus in little ones Do not say All this was nothing but his education Blessed be God for his education and those children have cause to bless God whose Parents have been careful to bring them up in his fear But sure it was something else for we see how different wayes those take that have one and the same education If education would have done the thing without Gods blessing doubtless Eli and David and many others of Gods Saints had never had their hearts broken by the ungraciousness of their children 2. To Parents to encourage them to be dropping principles of Religion into their little ones and to be doing it betime to season the Vessel first if possible with the fear of God We know not how soon God may be pleased to work upon the hearts of our children even the youngest of them 3. To young ones that they would learn to imitate and follow this example that hath been set before them Learn to know God and remember your Creator betimes Learn to pay the duty and observance you owe unto your Parents This is a thing well-pleasing unto God 4. To old ones that come short of this sweet Child Blush and be ashamed man to be forty or fifty years of age it may be more and yet out-stripped by a Child of five years and an half not to have attained so much knowledge of God and the things that concern your souls in all these years as he had attained in so short a space Learn to know God at last get acquaintance with the principles of Religion while you have yet a day while ye have yet an hour left before ye go hence and be seen no more You will say would you have us old folks as this age go learn the Catechism like children If you do not know those things already why not I am sure you were better do so Than have Christ come in flaming fire to take vengeance on you because you know not God It is better by far to set your selves to the learning of the points in the Catechism than to go to hell for your ignorance 5. To those worthy persons the neer Relations of this sweet Babe that is gone God hath but taken up this little Lamb to heaven to make you in your hearts and affections to follow after There is a part of you in heaven already He must not come again to you make sure that you meet him there And when you think how dearly you miss him remember but who hath taken him Submit to and acquiesce in Gods Dispensation Remember it is his hand Some do think there is no such Remedy for the Disease called the Kings-Evil as a touch with the Kings Hand but this I am sure of there is no such way to abate the anguish of our souls under any smarting blow from Gods Hand as the serious consideration of Gods Hand from whence the pain comes Do not forget the Text Be dumb open not your mouths not one word It is Gods doing Imprimatur EDM. CALAMY Septemb. 10th 1657. FINIS In Memoriam Johannis Langham summae spei pueruli D. Jacobi Langham Eq Aur. filii FElix ingenio cui laeva in parte mamille Nil cordis bone necquicquam quererere magister Mollis ad obsequium flecti sine moribus hilum Non valet ingenium cui displicuisse parenti Paenagravis sine paena alia Non ille salubres Quod pueri faciunt monitus committere ventis Non odisse libros imò his incumbere totis Viriculis ludo est jamdudum clamitat O he Jam satis est fili genitor requiesce parumper Ille operi intentus divelli sustinet aegrè Tantus amor libri tantique scientia rerum Omnibus accessit pietas quae maxima virtus Qua sine nil prodest habuisse atque omnia nosse Non pueri pro more preces ut inania verba Effudit sine mente Obiter non Biblia legit Hunc librum manè serò versare juvabat Indeque decerpsit quae mente reponeret alta Quaeque animo secum pia nocte dieque revolvat Saepe videns pater haec vix sua gaudia celans Jam juvat O vixisse inquit juvate esse maritum Te tanta mihi prole Tibi O! sunt Nestoris anni Saepe eadem charae genetrici mens eodem Illa Deum voto pia corde voce fatigat Saepe sua venerandus Avus sed saepe nepotis Causa gavisus mea spes mi Scipio dixit Vive meosque oculos patris claude superstes Saepe Fortunas aliquis laudabat amicus Vestras secum si tali ego prole beatus Heu quantum caecae mortalia pectora noctis Quantum noctis habent quoties heu fallere nostrum Nos solet augurium Non