Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	let_v	wife_n	4,137	5	7.9298	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91801	A sermon preached at Walden in Essex, May 29th. At the interring of the corps of the right Honorable Susanna, Countesse of Suffolke. Being a modest and short narration of some remarable passages in the holy life and death of that memorable lady. Who dyed May 19th. 1649. / By Edw: Rainbowe. D.D.	Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684.	1649 (1649)	Wing R141; Thomason E532_40	25,929	38

his departure floods of tears would needs flow from her eyes to stop these Floodgates she took her Bible and fell to singing of Psalmes untill she had broken the violent torrent of her passion and brought her soul to a cheerfull submission to the will of God I have spoken of her natnrall Parts and endowments a little touch I have given of some of her Virtues and the Ornaments of her Mind Those more outward of her body as she undervalued them so I pass them over yet one thing let me tell you of her Apparell and indeed the chief which she delighted in and that which was seen above and over all the rest was that Garment which the Apostle commends Humility she was clothed all over with that the Ornaments of her Mind and Body all shined through that and the Veil of Modesty But for her Attire and Dressing this I can aver that her self had the least affectation for it for her self but only for those who were related to her that she might not seem mean or unworthy their allyance or affections This resolution she had taken up long since and avowed to wear no other Garments but Black so long as she should live not only presaging what the Tragicall times might require but as being the gravest and most suitable to her disposition And to check all thoughts of Phancy or delighting in outward ornaments amongst some Places in her Bible at which she set a Memento and a Mark to be often read there yet sticks a pin which she fastned with her own hands in the Margent against that Place in the third of the first of St. Peter where the Duty of Christian Wives to their Husbands is prescribed but particularly it points at the third fourth and fifth verses Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of putting on of Apparell or of wearing of Gold but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit which is in the sight of God of great price the place is worth the consideration of all epecially of that Sex A rare mark of modest Gravity of one of her Place and Age she having now which addes much to all that I have or shall say but past the two and twentieth Year of her Age not come to her full strength and flourishing such a blossom I think can scarce be paralleld Having as I said spoken a little of her endowments and the habits of her Mind spare me a little time to let you see that her practice was according to those Habits which she had not as Talents buried in a napkin but with mighty diligence and vigour improved them to her Master's use to glorifie God the giver of those Gifts to edifie and benefit those to whom she related and to make her own calling and election sure I shall speak but of those which were the constant Practice of her life and such as may seem preparations for her Death and I will be as brief as it is possible to be in such an argument She began the Day with God and as she open'd it so she shut up the evening with the same Key of Prayer Most commonly as soon as she could break sleep from her eyes or because she would not take her fill of sleep which she thought she loved too much others must wake her gliding into her Closet and before she dressed her body except some urgent occasion required it she perfumed her breath with prayer and then read her daily Task in the Bible which was the Psalms of David usually observed for the day of the Moneth and six Chapters intending by that course to read the whole Bible over twice in the year which I am confident she did not fail of for these last seven years for if necessity did compell her to omit once or twice she doubled or tripled her number at the next opportunity She ordered her Soul first and then all other things were set in exactest order Books Time c. she had digested her hours into methods for affairs repasts readings of Books of Humanity Divinity Devotion chiefly as may appear both by the Books marked in the Margent and noted with her own hand as also by her papers and memorialls when she began to read any Book Besides reading her tasks in the Bible which she did for the daily bread and food of her soul she for pious recreation and more exact knowledge had set time apart to examine the hard places by Deodates Notes and of others which she had by her and because she could not stop her current of reading at that instant to stay and search every difficulty she set a mark at them to be searched at her further leisure She had marks of severall kinds some for difficulties some for Memorialls of choyce places or pertinent to some peculiar purposes but I know it was her resolution to have read the Bible together with Expositors in a daily task besides her number of six Chapters a day and the Psalms and besides that she noted such Places as she intended to confer with Divines or others about the meaning of them We find in his Epistles that Marcellina and Anapsychia wrote to St. Hierom for his opinion of the Souls originall she had no Hierom but in that particular question she spent much time and the letters are yet extant which she wrote for satisfaction in other doubts of Scripture difficulties In a word she was so assiduous in reading of the Bible that as Hierom notes to Marcella a noble Matron the newes of her friends death came when they were reading the Psalms of David she might seem to desire that all newes good or bad might find her so imployed I shall not need to name the other books which fed her devotion indeed on some she desired to have a holy surfet to name a few were to injure her none came in her way which she would not tast and if they relisht feed on When she began to read an Author is sometimes to be found in her Calendar and in those books wherein she most delighted how far she had read and with what she was most affected is to be seen by marks in the Margent She had a Zeal for the observation of the Lords day and times set apart for Devotion but especially before she received the Holy Communion which she did strive to do very frequently as finding much comfort by it then she used all exact strictness and serious Preparation She sometimes her self would Repeat with some of her Family what she had remembred of the Sermons which she could also note in the Church and used it for a time untill she either found it a little damped the devoutness of her attention or because she had a purpose so to order it that she might afterwards have privacie and leisure to write down what her memory would retain which how much it