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	parent_n	provoke_v	1,966	5	10.4177	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16657	The English gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. By Richard Brathwait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 3563; ESTC S104636	349,718	488

up in store to speake for him taint you Fie for shame saith Innocentius now adayes man is esteemed according to his money whereas rather the money should bee esteemed according to the man Every one is reputed worthy if he be wealthy and naught if he be needy whereas rather every one should be reputed wealthy if he be worthy and needy if he be naught Marcus Caelius was said to have a good right hand but an ill left hand because he could plead against a man better than for him Be you so equally handed as poyzing the weight of the cause sincerely you may minister right judgment to all parties being as ready to defend the cause of the needy as of the wealthy giving him the best countenance who hath the best cause It was Romes fault which presages Romes fall to be facunda inimicuiis faecunda praemiis farre be it from our Iland who as she hath enjoyed a long peace so ought shee to become more thankfull to that God of peace who in his mercy hath strengthned her bulwarkes enclosed her as a hedged garden fed her with the flower of wheat making her feet like Hindes feet to runne the wayes which hee hath appointed And so I come to speake of such private affaires as require the care and charge of a Gentleman even within the compasse of his owne family IF there bee any that provideth not for his owne and namely for them of his Houshold he denieth the faith and is worse than an Infidell saith the Apostle Now how carefull should we be to remove from us so hatefull a title as the name of infidell Have we not our appellation from Christ but in vaine are we named after Christ if wee doe not follow Christ. Wee were not borne to passe our time in an improvident or carelesse sensuality wee were not created onely to cramme our selves and spend our dayes in securitie Man saith Iob was borne to labour as the sparkes to flie upward at least to provide for his owne family over which hee is made a master by releeving them outwardly with all necessaries and inwardly with all good and wholsome instructions Now to propose you a forme in what manner you are to demeane your selves towards all degrees within your family I shall little need since the Apostle himselfe hath so notably laid downe every ones office or duty where hee sheweth in what manner Wives are to submit themselves unto their Husbands and againe how Husbands should love their Wives Even as Christ loved the Church and gave himselfe for it In the next ensuing chapter hee declareth the duty of Children in these words Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right Then he descendeth to the duty of Parents And ye Fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in instruction and information of the Lord. Then touching servants Servants bee obedient unto them that are your masters according to the flesh with feare and trembling in singlenesse of your hearts as unto Christ. Concluding the last duty with Masters And yee Masters doe the same thing unto them putting away threatning and know that even your master also is in heaven neither is there respect of person with him Thus have wee briefly and cursorily runne over those particular duties deputed to every one from the highest to the lowest in their peculiar places and offices where we can finde no exemption from the servant to the master but that certaine particular duties are injoyned either As every mans house is his Castle so is his family a private Common-wealth wherein if due government be not observed nothing but confusion is to be expected For the better prevention whereof I have thought good to set downe sundry cautions as well for direction in affaires temporall as spirituall which observed it is not to bee doubted but that God will give you all good successe to your endevours First therefore in affaires Temporall I could wish you to observe this course so to provide for the releefe and supportance of your family as you may not onely have sufficient for yourselves but also bee helpfull unto others sufficient for your selves in providing food and apparell being all which Iaakob desired of God and helpfull unto others in giving food and raiment to the fatherlesse in providing releefe for the desolate and comfortlesse in harbouring the poore needy and succourlesse and briefly in ministring to the necessity of the Saints and all such as are of the family of faith And because providence is the way by which releefe both to your selves and others may bee sufficiently ministred beware of Prodigality and excesse lest you give your honour unto others and your yeares to the cruell Lest the stranger should be filled with your strength and your labours be in the house of a stranger Go rather to the Pismire who though she have no guide governour nor ruler provideth in Summer her granary for Winter Neither is it sufficient to gather but frugally to dispose of that which is gathered This Providence admits of no Vitellius break-fasts nor Cleopatra's bankets The Prodigalls daintie tooth brought him to feed on husks Esau's to sell his birth-right for a messe of pottage Ionathans for a honey-combe to endanger his life The Israelites to murmure against Moses Babylons golden cup to fill her full of abominations I have observed and no lesse admired than observed how some have consumed their estates in satisfying their appetites and that only in the choice of meats and drinkes and was not this a great vanitie That those whom meats though lesse delightfull yet more healthfull might haue sustained and fewer diseases occasioned could not content themselves with that which might have better satisfied nature but to shew themselves Epicures rather than Christians will bestow the revenues of a Manour upon the superfluous charge of a supper For these are they who like Ery●thous bowels will disgorge as much upon the boundlesse expence of their owne Family as might serve well for releeving a whole Countrey These are they who like the Endive or Misselto sucke up all the native verdure and vigour of such plants as they inwreath for by their excesse though their owne luscious palats taste no want the commonaltie feeles it when they goe to the Markets and finde the rate of all provision inhanced by such whose Prodigalitie scarce extends a provident eye to themselves much lesse to the behoose of others It is said of Cambletes the gluttonous King of Lydia that he dreamed he devoured his wife while they lay sleeping together in the same bed and finding her hand betweene his teeth when he awaked hee slow himselfe fearing dishonour Howsoever the History be authenticke sure I am the Morall taxeth such whose Epicureall mindes are only set upon prodigall expence without respect either of present fortunes or care to posteritie whose want is oft-times procured by their riot To be short as Parcimonie is