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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	parent_n	provide_v	2,735	5	9.0893	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

shoppe or set his wares to sale Stage-player Whether by his Enterludes Stage-playes he haue drawn the people away from spirituall exerercises and godly meditations ¶ Musicion Mynstrel Whether hee haue bene the author and occasioner of wanton dancing or other vnseemly pastimes ¶ Craftes-men of any trade whatsoeuer Whether they haue wrought on the Sabboth and holy dayes when no necessitie enforced them but onely for lucre sake or whether they haue caused their apprentises and seruants the same dayes to worke without eyther going to church or giuing themselues to godly meditations as the Taylor or Botcher to sow a garment the husbandman to hedge ditch plowe garden cleanse his Stable c. whereas at these times these thinges and so of others might ought to be forborne Whether any person whosoeuer hee be haue enticed and procured others to any vaine games vnlawfull sports or other light and lewde exercises as dice-playing and such like House-holder Whether as specially on the Sabboths and festiuall dayes so also sometimes on the worke dayes he haue propounded or caused to be propounded and taught to his children and family the cheefe heads of Christian religiō namely such as be taught and contayned in the Catechisme Finally whether any person by cōmitting any of these aforesayd faults haue therby giuen occasion to others to commit the like and whether hee haue beene a stumbling blocke and cause of fall vnto others eyther in worde or deede And again whether in seeing others to do ill thou haue not let them vnderstande thy great mislike thereof For thine assenting to others sinnes loadeth thee a newe with mo sinnes and maketh thee a partaker thereof The fift Commandement Honour thy Father thy Mother that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the Land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee Sinnes inward For the trade of life SOnne Daughter Orphan and Warde Whether thou hast at all times reuerently thought and had a good opinion of thy parents gouernors wishing well vnto them and praying for them and in all thinges to their good liking shewing thy dutifull obedience Whether by reason of their base degree and condition pouerty afflictiō misery or any such like respect thou haue had them in contempt or made the lesse account of them Whether because they haue at somtime somewhat sharply chastised thee or because of some wrong which they haue done vnto thee or because thou thinkest they haue not had that care of thee which they ought thou haste therfore withdrawne thy duty alienated thy mind any waies from them ¶ Parents Gardians Whether they haue borne a right fatherly mind and affection toward their childrē wishing their welfare and wel-doing prouiding the best for them that they possibly could in all things ¶ Lay people Whether of the spirituall fathers Parentes that feede thy soule that is to say the Ministers of Gods holy word and sacraments and of their office function and calling thou haste reuerently and religiously thought Whether thou hast willingly receiued and heard their doctrine exhortations reprehensions and ecclesiasticall discipline by them deseruedly inflicted vpon thee either publikely or priuatelie and that without murmuring resistance or gainsaying ¶ Minister of the Church Whether as much as in thee lay thou hast earnestly heartilie laboured to bring vnto God to the knowlege of their saluation in Christ those that were cōmitted to thy charge ouersight euer remēbring that God would one day require an account of them at thy hand ¶ Scholler Whether thou haste caried the same good mind and affection towards thy Masters which tooke paines to trayne thee vp in vertue learning as thou oughtest to bear toward thy parents ¶ Schoole-master Whether thou haue caried a Fatherly minde affection towardes thy Schollers carefully deuising and seeking all wayes means to profit them ¶ Subiectes and Inferiors Whether thou haste esteemed the Magistrates which be the common parents of the country defending vs our wiues children and goodes from iniurie and oppression and procuring vnto vs peace quietnes and tranquility as the lawfull Ministers of God vnto whome thou owest honour feare tribute custome and all thinges else euen for conscience sake knowing that thou art bounde to obey them yea though they were wicked ¶ Magistrates Whether they considering remembring that they must make an account and giue a reckoning of their gouernment and that they beeing Deputies heere on earth vnder God ought to minister Iustice and to iudge in all thinges according to right haue accordingly endeuored them-selues at all times to seeke the quietnesse tranquility of their subiectes and carefully in singlenesse of heart to prouide for their commodity and welfare ¶ Seruauntes and Hand-maydes Whether they haue beene obedient and submitted them-selues to their Maisters and Mistresses with feare and trembling seruing them heartily in singlenesse and simplicity of minde euery where and at all times rather wishing their furtherance and profit then their losse and hindraunce ¶ Masters and Mistresses Whether they knowing them-selues to haue a Master in Heauen with whome there is no respect of persons haue dealt iustly and equally with their seruants shewing mildnesse vnto them and curtesy not rigor and threatning Sinnes externall and outward SOnnes Daughters Orphans Wards Whether they haue shewed toward their Parents in euery place all tokens of honour reuerence and good-will Whether they haue willingly obeied their commaundementes and euerie way taken heed least they should prouoke them to anger Whether they haue spoken or done any thing wherby to bring them into heauinesse and griefe as either by wishing euil vnto them by threatning them by complaining on them to others neglecting the studies and businesse whereunto by them they haue beene enioyned vnthriftily spending their time shamefully and wastfully consuming their money excessiuelie royoting away the wealth charges which their carefull Parents to help them withall were willing to bestowe on them or else by anie other way or meane whatsoeuer Whether they haue dutifully holpen succoured and relieued them when they haue beene sicke driuen into pouertie or throwen into daunger ¶ Parent Guardian Whether thou thy selfe with al diligence hast trained vp and instructed thy children in godlines in the feare of the Lorde and in holines of life also caused them by others to be instructed and trained Whether thou haue beene an example of vertue and godlinesse vnto thy children committing nothing before them vnseemely filthy or vnciuile either in word or deede Whether thou haue fondly dandlingly cockered them not chastising correcting them but letting thē haue their owne wanton willes winking at their faultes and so with too smooth countenance and familiar gesture vtterlie marring them Whether thou hast frō time to time fedde thy children with money and other things or suffred thē to haue the same to

he haue sold to them armour weapons or other things ¶ Butcher Fishmonger Baker Brewer Cater Vitaler Cooke Vintner Tauerner c Whether they haue sold vttered retailed or d●essed corrupt flesh fish or any other meat or drinke wherby the eaters therof haue caught sicknesse infection or any other harme in their bodies ¶ Husband Whether he haue stroken and beaten his wife either else put inforced her to such labours works whereby she hath ben brought a bed afore her time or hurt the child in her wombe ¶ Wife Whether by medicines or labour or dancing or any other means she haue ben the occasion of vntimely birth or otherwise of hurting the child within her Whether she haue carefully tendred and cherished her babe being new borne looking so diligently and so tēderly vnto it as her duty required There be many women that may iustly be charged with great negligence in this behalfe and that many waies Whether laying the babe in the same bed with her in the night she haue crushed and brused it or by ouer-lying smoothered and killed it Whether by her adulterous life or by her scolding and brawling with any other or by making complaint to her husband of others shee haue bene the cause to set her husband and the other party together by the eares wherby the one hath violently assailed wounded or killed the other Nurses are liable to the same faultes that matrones and wiues Harlots and strumpets drabs curtizans queanes and such as haue nothing of virgins but the name onely are likewise infamous for procuring their barrennesse vntimely births and killing their children They therefore in this behalfe haue great cause diligently to examine their consciences To be short it is euery particular man and womans dutie to looke about it standeth each man in hand to consider with himselfe according to that trade function or kinde of life wherein he liueth whether he haue any manner of waie ben the cause either of the hurt or of the death of an other As for example The Maister when he commandeth his seruant to lift or carrie such great burthens whereby he is hurt in his bodie or peraduenture catcheth that harme whereof he can neuer be cured Likewise he that willeth another to goe afore through a deepe foord or water ouer some bridge rotten planke timber or ladder where there is great apparance of present danger Hee also that hurleth a stone or shooteth an arrow into such place where others do vsually haunt and assemble Also hee that lendeth or letteth to hire to an other a horse which hee knoweth to haue naughtie trickes as oftentimes to haue ouerthrowen and cast his rider to floūdre in the mire to lie down in the water c. Infinite be the waies whereby the bodie of our neighbour may be put in daunger and wronged Let euery one therefore enter into deepe consideration with himselfe remember how and which waie he hath offended and broght his neighbor into any hazard perill or danger Finally whether in committing any of these aforesayd thou hast giuen thereby occasion to others to doe the like that is to saie whether either by word or deede against this commandement thou hast beene a stumbling-blocke or the cause of fall to another And also whether seeing others committing any of the same thou haue secretly assented vnto them neither staying them nor reprouing thē neither yet shewing any token of thy mislike thereof when time and place serued thee well so to haue done The accessarie and consentour is as well culpable as the partie that dooth the deede The 7. Commandement Thou shalt not commit adulterie Sinnes inward WHether in anie place or time when thou haste bene idle and vnoccupied thou hast had anie thinking of filthie and vnchast matters and whether in the same thou hast fixed anie delight or dwelt in any pleasure so that thereby thou feltest thy minde and flesh stirred prouoked and occasioned to sinne Whether seeing any womā or maid thou hast burnt inwardly in lust toward her Whether thou hast euer deuised any practises or laied any plots wherby to compasse thy desire in such filthie purposes Whether thou hast taken anie delight in reporting remembring thy former lewde life or filthy actes this waie committed whether thou hast had any desire to returne to the same sinne againe Whether thou hast immoderatlie bene in loue with thy selfe eyther for thy beautie or for any other giftes whatsoeuer as though for the same thou deemedst thy self a Paragon able to allure and drawe others to commit filthie follie with thee Sinnes outward WHether through brauerie in apparell simpering lookes smooth countenance gallant decking curious trimming wanton glances nice behauiour and other like vanities thou haue giuen occasion of semblable loosenesse and opened a wide gap for others by imitatiō of thy follies the sooner to commit filthines and dishonestie Whether thou hast bene addicted to idlenesse banquetting tippeling and drinking whereby thy libidinous lust hath ben 〈◊〉 thy desire of lecherie 〈◊〉 Wheth●● 〈…〉 wanton eies learing countenances beckes signes greetings seruiceable salutations gifts and rewards amorous songs and Sonets delicate instruments of Musicke nightly walkinges vp and downe the streets purposely appointed daunces set banquets messengers or by anie wicked practises thou hast gone about to bring thy dishonest desire lecherous loue to passe Whether thou hast willingly kept companie or bene familiar with such persons by whō thou mightest be egged and entised holpen or furthered o● any way drawen moued to commit this filthinesse Whether to compasse thy dishonest desire thou hast at any time resorted vnto and frequented secrete corners gardens or any other such places as might well be suspected It standeth thee vpon and thou oughtest with all diligence and circumspection to auoide and eschue all such persons all such places all such times and al such other circumstances as may draw thy minde to infection thy bodie to villanie or thy name and credite into question Whether by any secret sleight or ●unning as drinkes drugs medicines charmed potions amatorious Philters figures characters or anie such●like paltering instrumentes deuises or practises thou hast gone about to procure others to doate for loue of thee Whether by kissing groping touching or handling any partes of the bodie thou hast gone about to stirre vp● lust and lecherie either in thy selfe or in any other Whether thou hast vsed anie ribal● talke or raskallie words of scurrilitie tending to the praise of lust and prouocation of lecherie or whether thou hast willingly heard and giuen eare to others that haue so done or prouoked others to any such talke Whether thou hast vnlawfully had carnall copulation with anie and with what maner of person Whether with a single woman thy selfe also beeing single and vnmarried or whether with a married person which is adulterie Or whether 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 of kinne or assi●●tie to thee which is called Incest or