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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
A19280	The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1615 (1615)	STC 5692; ESTC S118543	43,483	144

That deny contributions to the poore and enlarge not towards them 3 For Officers in corporations who are put in trust with Legacies giuen to the poore that they imploy them to the best aduantage 4 For such ouerseers of Testaments that they licke not their owne fingers but faithfully distribute 5 For masters of Hospitals that they make not their places matter of preferment but indeed as they were first intended places of bounty c. 6 For Almoners c. that they beare not the bagge as Iudas did and thinke the cost ill bestowed that is imployed on Christs poore members 7 For euery priuate Christian to make him friends of his Mammon c. CHAP. XVII Lastly obserue we such Lets and Tentations as Satan vseth to hinder this duety and how we are to ouercome the same Of Tentations 1 COncerning their owne estate Satan alledgeth that they are our owne and therefore we may dispose them as we list and why not wholly for our pleasure and profit 2 They are no otherwise our owne then that wee are Gods Stewards to dispence them according to his word which seeing it commandeth vs to imploy them on the poore therefore we may not lay them all on our owne backes and bellies least they proue nothing lesse then goods vnto vs. But all is little enough for my selfe may the miser reply charges are so great and gettings so rare and therefore though I haue more then many thousands yet I haue enough to doe for my selfe 1 If thou which hast such abundance hast tittle enough for thy selfe how little then haue they that haue nothing to take to 2 If God then will prouide for these doest thou doubt by obeying Gods commandement in relieuiug these to be scanted 3 Who hast already experience of Gods mercy aboue these and if thou beleeuest shalt see greater things then these 4 And hast this abundance giuen thee to impart vnto these that by this means thy store may be increased Feare not thou want where God commands to distribute and beleeue the promise that thou shalt haue plenty 5 And as God restrayneth his hand in such scarce and miserable times so restraine thou thy vnnecessary expence in apparrell and diet and so thou shalt haue yet to spare for thy needfull brother 6 And liue here by faith and not by sence so shalt thou be encreased though thou mayest feare the contrary If I should giue to euery one I may soone giue all away and so I shall make my selfe a beggar 1 God would haue thee in giuing first to prouide for thy selfe and therefore thou maist not giue to all Neither 2 God hath so enlarged thee as that thou canst giue vnto all and therefore he requires no more then for what he giues 3 Thou art to giue onely to such concerning whom present occasion is offred in discouering their present necessity and so much onely as in good discretion is meete vpon such speciall occasion 4 Thy rule here must be thy ability and from thy loue to thy selfe must proceed thy loue to thy neighbour CHAP. XVIII Of Tentations concerning care of our Posteritie I But saith Satan thou must prouide for thy posterity 1 Tim. 5. to leaue them portions they are neerest thee c. 1 Thou shalt best prouide for them by sanctifying thine estate and laying vp for them in the Treasurie of the poore 2 As also by leauing the care of them to God in the obedience to his commandement who eyther will so blesse thy beneficence that thou shalt be able to leaue them sufficient or if necessary occasion require thy further employing or the Lord hereby haue a purpose to try thy faith know thou that the posterity of the faithfull are the Lords portion and he will see them prouided for abundantly 3 No Scripture enioyneth vs to leaue a set portion to our children that which is implyed thereby is that wee be not guiltie of neglect and carelesnesse herein 4 The best patrimony Parents can leaue their children is true Godlinesse Psal. 37. 26. Psal. 112. 2. 5 And therefore so to prouide for our children as that wee neglect this principall duety of charity is to betray our children and expose them to all misery Psal. 109. 6 Yea hereby Parents commit a double sinne First in not taking a right course for the prouision of his children Secondly hereby also he prouoketh his children to esteeme more their earthly then their heauenly Patrimony and so with the Cadarens to preferre their Swine before Iesus Christ. 7 Because the children of rich men are vsually gracelesse c. therefore it is farre better to be a father to many Orphanes or fatherlesse children in feeding and cherishing them of Christian loue and pitie for the Lords sake who professeth himselfe a father vnto them then to leaue the greatest abundance that may be to such children of a mans owne as for want of grace shew themselues so lewdly minded that they will wantonly and vnthriftily spend all that shall be left vnto them And therefore it hath beene the practise of many godly Christians to supply for the present where there hath beene neede in Gods Church As for their children they haue rather in their life time put them to honest trades whereby they might be able to liue of themselues then to leaue them any great portion after their deaths 8 The summe is that we know the commandements of God are not contrary to each other as if because the Lord bids vs prouide for our families this did contrary that other commaundement to distribute to the poore But rather that the one is a meanes to the performance of the other They both implying frugality and conscionable cariage in our ciuill callings by which wee shall be inabled to both these duties and each of them furthering the other namely that in pitying the poore wee shall prouide for our family because there is an extraordinary promise of God to such beneficence and in carefull prouiding for our family we shall also be moued to relieue the poore because they are our flesh also Esay 58. So that in trueth he doth not prouide truely for his children that respects not the poore Neyther doth he wisely respect the poore that is not moued to begin at home because he cannot continue herein But yet Satan replyes further Thou hast Daughters as well as Sonnes these will not be preferred without portions their bringing vp will becostly c. My Daughters vertue and godlinesse shall be her best portion which that she may be furnished withall Her education shall be such as may humble her and subdue the corruption of nature little cost will serue this turne As for a portion of goods hee that will haue my Daughter shall giue mee somewhat for her So was it among the Iewes so it was among the Saints If her vertue will not marry her a portion will rather marre her marriage for