Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	inferior_n	superior_n	1,041	5	11.3599	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01712	A catechisme conteining the summe of Christian religion, giuing a most excellent light to all those that seek to enter the path-way to saluation: Newlie set foorth by G.G. Preacher of Gods word at Malden in Essex	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1583 (1583)	STC 11848; ESTC S114965	69,171	182

home for they ought to trauell and seeke where they may bee edified for if theyr Cattell did want water at home they woulde driue them to water at another Towne and them selues woulde trauel two or three myles for meate that day rather then bee without Also men are without excuse because they like better to spend the day in their lustes theÌ„ for to haue the holy exercises of the worde For doubtlesse if they did earnestly desire it and long for it God would send them faithfull shepheards which should feede them vnto life eternall Q. These foure commaundements are the first table of the law the reste whiche followe are the second table Is there any thing to bee obserued in this order which God vseth A. Yea no doubt for looke howe the Lord excelleth men so also the duties which doe immediately belong vnto him are more excellent then those which belong vnto meÌ„ And this is to bee obserued against those grosse men if they be worthie the names of men which regarde no more then outwarde deedes towardes men if hee bee an Idolater or superstitious or an heretike or a blasphemer of the Gospel or a swearer or a mispender of the Sabboth if hee wil keepe tuche in bargaine and bee true of his word or if hee keepe a good house or giue almes or suche like they will say hee is a good man and if hee goe not to heauen they knowe not who shall But we must learne that none are good men but those whiche regard to walke in all duties both in the first table of the Lawe and also in the second Q. When God rebuked the Israelits by the Prophetes hee findeth fault with them for want of dutie in man towards man and commendeth mercie pitie iustice and iudgement t. Mich. 6.8 as though they were the speciall things required A. That is very true that God by his Prophets sundrie times doth so vrge the duties of man towardes man as though they were the summe of all But this was not to preferre the second table of the lawe before the first but to detect hypocrites which vauÌ„ted much of zeale towards God for hee proueth that they had no loue of God seeinge they dealt so wickedly one against another Q. Let vs then proceede vnto the first commandement of the secoÌ„d table Honour thy father and mother A. This commandement is great as it may appeare not onely because it is set in the toppe or coÌ„meth in the forefront of preceptes towardes men but also by the greeuous penaltie which was set vppon it that the disobedient childe vnto father and mother shoulde die the death he that did curse father or mother he that did strike father or mother should also die the death v. Exo. 21.17 Leuit. 20.9 And moreouer as S. Paule gathereth it is the first commandement with promise w. Ephe. 6.2 For the promise of the blessing which God annexed vnto it doth shew how precious a thing it is before God that children should honour their parents Q. How is it said that this coÌ„mandement is the first with promise when as there is a promise annexed also vnto the second commandement A. This is the first commandement which hath a speciall or particuler promise by it selfe For that which is added to the second coÌ„mandement is general to all For he saith I will shew mercy vnto thousandes of them that loue me keepe my commandements Q. What doe yee take to be meant by the honour which children are commaÌ„ded here to yeeld vnto their parents A. All the duties they owe are coÌ„prised in this one worde honour how they are to obey them to loue reuerence cherish theÌ„ especially when they growe to bee poore or weake or aged For this was a common saying of parents that their children should bee the staffe of their age Q. Is there onely the dutie of children to be considered in this coÌ„mandement A. Heere is also the duetie of parentes towardes their children contained and not onely that but also the duetie of all inferiours as the wife to the husband the subiects to their prince the seruants to their masters the people to their teachers the young to the aged And contrariwise of all those superiours towardes their inferiours Q. What reason haue yee to shewe this Seeing here is set downe expresly no more but that which children owe to their parents A. There is great reason and manifest first for Parents when God willeth children to honour them they are also bounde to doe those thinges for whiche they are to bee honoured Also for all Superiours they are fitly represented by the titles of fathers and mothers in respect of the affections which shoulde be in them vnto their inferiours Q. Then let vs briefly consider the seuerall dueties whiche are required in each of these and first shew wherein parents are bound vnto their children A. The father and mother are bound as concerning this bodylie life to make honest prouision for the sustenaunce of theyr children And therefore the vnchriftie Dycers and drunkardes whiche wast away their goods whose children may well bee counted fatherlesse their wiues widdows doe very vnnaturally sinne and breake this commandement of God Q. Is there no further thing required at their hands then this A. Yes they are to care not only for the body in this life but also most especially for both soule body in the life to come therefore they are inioyned to bring vp their children in the nurture and instruction of the Lorde x. Ephe. 6.4 whereby wee may see not onely how these are deceiued whiche when they haue brought vp their children and prouided well for them in the world wil say they haue done their parte although they haue not taught them to know god But also what a greate account they haue to make before God for the soules of their children By whiche also wee may iudge howe cruell those are euen more then sauage beastes who not onely by negligence in not teaching their children the feare of God But also by corrupt example doe leade them into euill and so murther their soules for the childe insteede of a godly instruction doeth heare his father sweare lye sclaunder and rayle doth see him deale deceitfully and vniustly and to walke in euerie euill way Q. Then you do not account those fathers to haue discharged their whole duetie which doe teach theyr children to say the tenne commaundements the Lordes prayer and the articles of the faith and say they haue done what they can A. It is most sure they haue to render account vnto God for a farre greater matter then the teaching them to speake these thinges for they are to see that they vnderstand them they are to instruct them in all points of true religion they are to shewe them the steppes of godlinesse they are to exhort them with all diligence yea to charge them to feare God and to walke in his wayes

Q. All men are not able to doe this you speake of A. The more shame for them that they will be fathers before they can do that which is the duetie of fathers and the more heauie iudgement tarryeth for them for casting away and spilling the soules of their children Q. What is required at the handes of the wife to her husband A. It is the dutie of the wife to bee in subiection to shew all obedience and reuerence and loue vnto her head and that with a meeke and quiet spirite y. Ephe. 5.22 23. 1. Pet 3.1.2.3.4 Q. What is the part of the husband vnto his wife A. The husband ought to loue cherish his wife z. Ephe. 5.25 And because she is the weaker and subiect to infirmities hee is to put away all bitternesse and tyrannicall roughnesse and to guide her with wisedome and discretion to couer her infirmities and to heale them and for suche knowledge as shee wanteth hee is to instruct her Q. Howe if the husbande bee an vngodly and a frowarde man and not meete to bee an head to gouerne being rather like a mad bedlim then a discrete guide A. The wife is to doe her dutie notwithstanding for why did shee make suche a choyce when shee shoulde haue been most carefull to marry in the Lorde And shee is to bee the more heedefull that by her godly and chaste conuersation ioyned with meekenesse her husbande may bee wonne from his naughtie life Likewise the man which is coupled with an euill wife is to vse all godly meanes and discretion to draw her to the Lord. Q. What owe the seruants vnto their masters A. The seruants ought to loue reuerence and obey their masters to doe their worke faithfully both in sight and out of sight a. C. 3.3.22.23 To see nothing goe to wracke nor to spoyle any thing nor to pilferre But to shewe all faithfulnesse and diligence Q. What must the masters doe vnto their seruants A. They are bounde in duetie before God not only to deale kindly and louingly and to doe them no wronge neither by defrauding nor oppressing them b. Ephe. 6.9 but also to instruct and teach them the true knoweledge of God Q. What proofe can you shewe that masters are bounde to teach their seruants A. There can be no reason shewed against it for when it is plaine by the scriptures that euery man is bound in conscience to admonish and instruct his neighbour wheÌ„ hee goeth astray c. Heb. 3.13 Who can doubt but that a man is much more bound to doe it to those that are vnder his charge and of his own familie Q. What doe you thinke of those men which doe not this A. Howesoeuer they take themselues it is manifest that they haue not so muche as the shewe of Christianitie nor of any godly minde For can those bee good whiche suffer their family whiche shoulde bee a little Churche to bee so full of wickednesse as roysting swearing rayling lying quarrelling and all other filthinesse that is euen a little hell and neuer goe about to examine and instruct them in any goodnes So that they haue their woork wel done in the weeke day they care not where they become vppon the Sabboth day They neuer examine them how they profit by the worde Q. What is the duetie of subiectes to their Prince A. The Subiecte is to loue honour and obey the Prince d. 1. Pet. 2.17 and because he is defended both in his life and possessions by the Prince hee is to be ready with his body and goodes to defende his Prince and with a ready cheerefull mind to pay tribute and such like e. Ma. 17.24.25 Rom. 13.6 Q. What is required of Princes and gouernours A. It is their duetie for to seeke the benefit of their subiects to cherish and maintaine the good and to punish euil doers And this must bee by such lawes for temporall matters as be equall and for spiritual matters as do maintaine sound religion Q. The subiecte is to obeye the Prince and the childe his father Is this obedience to be shewed in all thinges A. They are to obey them in the Lord and not further for if they commaund that that God forbiddeth wee must obey God rather f. Act. 5.29 4.19 If the Prince should set vp false religion the people must not receiue it If the Father would match his Sonne with a wicked woman or his Daughter with an euill man voyde of true religion they are to refuse beecause they are commaunded to marry onely in the Lord g. Deu. 7.2.3.4 1. Cor. 7.39 Q. What are the people bound to shewe vnto their Pastors A. They are bounde to esteeme them as the Messengers of the Lorde of hosts h. Mal. 2.7 and disposers of Gods graces i. 1. Cor. 4.1 they ought to submitte themselues vnto them to bee taught and guyded and to obeye them in the doctrince whiche they teache And to followe theyr steppes k. He. 13.7.17 They muste also prouide things necessarye for their sustentation l. 1 Tim. 5.17 Q. And what must they doe to their flockes A. They are most straightly bound to watch ouer the flocke and to feede them m. Ioh. 21.15 16.17 1. Pet. 5.2 to open vnto them all the counsels of God and to doe it faythfully n. 1. Act. 20.27 Pet. 5.2 They must also be patterns and examples in al goodly conuersation o. 1. Pet. 5.3 For if they fayle in eyther of these they bee not true Shepheardes but Woolues and Hyrelinges Q. What must be the behauiour of youth to the aged A. They must honour and reuerence the gray heade p. Leui. 19.32 Q. What must they shewe vnto the younger sorte A. As they be aboue them in yeeres so must they excell in knowledge wisdome sobrietie and staydnesse q. Tit. 2.2 so that their very countenaunce must bee as a brydle vnto the lustes of youth that they maye bee ashamed to bee wanton and lyght in theyr presence And there is no greater shame then to see olde persons foolishe ignoraunt vaine giuen to boyishe trickes and lightnesse which spoyleth them of all reuerence and causeth them to bee condemned Q. The promyse seemeth to haue little force in it for if wee consider the miseries and daungers of this life wee will easilye confesse it to be farre better to bee out of the worlde A. Longe lyfe in it selfe is not suche a blessinge for to the vngodlye it is a greeuous curse beecause it had beene farre better for him to haue dyed in his cradle But yet it is a great blessing when GOD giueth it as a token and pledge of his fauour and when a man is so guided in it that it is to the increase and heaping vp of his euerlasting glory Q. The next commaundement forbiddeth to commit murther A. This precepte is of great waight for the sheddinge of mans bloud is a thinge

Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Text snippets containing the quad