Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	holy_a	week_n	1,884	5	10.1877	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64552	Milke for children, or, A plain and easie method teaching to read and write together with briefe instructions for all sorts of people ... : as also an appendix of prayer / by Lambrocke Thomas.	Thomas, Lambrocke.	1654 (1654)	Wing T967A; ESTC R27538	78,939	178

delivered in plaine and easie terms which others yet may understand in them more difficult and obstruse Besides that many good bookes there that come not to the knowledge of every one and books as for their worth some so others though perhaps of lesse worth or not so excellent as those others yet are little set by or otherwise esteemed for their Authors as Sermons Commentaries Ca●echismes and the like why many times the labours of most excellent men unknowne are but lightly looked upon cast by otherwise though of men lesse eminent yet for some relation otherwise as that they are our friends or our Teachers or the like are oft more looked into and used As this of mine may chance to be not onely by those of my now present charge but also by those many in the many other places I have had some relation to that seeing my name prefixed to it will some perhaps out of love to me renew acquaintance with this remembrances that hereby againe put them in mind of their soules health the welfare whereof as it was my endeavour among them so absent it is also still my endeavour both by word and writing in both as still tendring that which is the main end of these instructions a Milke administred for the sustentation of soules A Booke that with the Bible may for a time be a sufficient Library while in their Minority to informe Children in the Grounds and Principles of Religion And if I have not much mistaken the Method I aimed at though plain it be yet such it is that may most happily make way to the better use and understanding of more learned bookes When in this they have weighed every fundamentall point of Religion may they the better judg of the superstructures of others more eminent Builders that set forth the beauty of the varied Roof happily make use and judge of Sermons and Commentaries and what other learned ornaments men of God compose every one according to the measure of grace given him for the edification of the house of God The hand that first points at which such eminent peeces must be such like more plaine instructions and Catechismes And of such like there are even in the English Tongue many excellent of either kind yet not so many of either but that still there is place left for men to exercise their endeavours in that though but varying the Phrase or Method or the like keeping still the faith intire may for their novelty winne Readers who while but thus conning an old Book new dated may renew their faith almost perhaps out of date To write againe even the sa●e things may be necessary d Phi. 3. 1. the same things new dressed pleasant When men of knowledg that see both and therefore out of their own fullnesse loath it let them suffer others not so full by both or either to encrease their knowledg Let neither grudg at the plenty the more knowing sometimes may nod or forget and may perhaps want a wakening or remembrance and for them that know lesse their owne want may prompt to them any wise to seek to better their knowiedge If not they may starve and not be pit●ied that having bread to the full will no● eate it When then let the variety of this kind cloy none but every man take where and what he will and leave that he dislikes may for ought he knowes as much like another They all are put forth to this end to profit all though it may not be they may profit all alike Let our thankes be to God rather then our scorne or envy to the Authors of them that unlesse wanting to our selves thus happily feede us with abundance What I propose here is out of love and desire to win soules to God with my thankes for his goodness that hath raised up before me so many candles whereby I have lighted mine which for their sakes in the house with me I thought not meet to lay under a bushel but to put it on this meane candlstick of my making that they also may have light with me And to this end therfore having thus given account of my purpose take also this account of my composing this peec In the pēning wherof I have seen I confess made much use of many commentaries Catechismes in this little peice of mine I have studied only plainness without prejudice or detraction to any their Authors enlargeing some that were some what short abridging explaining others long abstruse It was bad enough when we had a liturgy and Catechisme in it a set forme both plaine and pithie enjoyned to be taught children and servants it is now little amended if not worse though too much neglected was the powerfull and diligent opening every point and principle of religion comprised in that catechisme the forme yet then kept us in some decorum of knowledge though for want of due practise the power of Godliness was much wanting But now is lost almost both form and power When though Catechismes we have many yet least ●ad libitum exercised are they but by a few Our constant preaching neglecting catechising makes up a Religion much like that Nebuchad nezzar's e Dan. 2. 32. Image that was gold in the head but in the feet earth Men and masters we teach and informe but children and servants are neglected When they that are so much for preaching and cannot away with catechising are such as commonly have more braine then heart and would be heard more to dispute then seene to live like Christians But let both both preaching and catechising be but in practise and some of the overbusied time spent in the one supply the too much neglect of the other when both young and old may mch grow the better by it And herein I have endeavoured a peece to that purpose that whoever list to spare time but the too much idle time spent in uselesse pamphlits and more idle sports to imploy in setting this Method a foote may for the vaine service done to their own lusts and the much pleasure of mans great foe the Devill do service to their souls good to the glory of their greatest friend God However in this let him have his owne time betweene whiles both before and after Sermons when having called those under their charge to give accompts of their attention at the Church you may in this edifie them at home and by little and little the better fit them for Church services understanding the grounds and principles of religion in this plain familiar manner will they the better understand sermons though delivered in more quaint and elegant Phrases Nor let it be onely the practice of that Gods holy day a day that he challenges to himselfe but otherwise having given you six dayes to doe your worke in between whiles even on some of these in this duty give him some of your diligence when he will so blesse you as that you may the better doe your worke If a quarter or halfe an houre in a day be sometimes spent in the practice at the weekes end