Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,154	5	11.8385	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01013	The picture of a perfit common wealth describing aswell the offices of princes and inferiour magistrates ouer their subiects, as also the duties of subiects towards their gouernours. Gathered forth of many authors, aswel humane, as diuine, by Thomas Floyd master in the Artes.	Floyd, Thomas, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford.	1600 (1600)	STC 11119; ESTC S122030	71,774	330

lenity procureth lawes which doe iudge with extremity Of Charity Cap. 26. CHarity is a vertue proceeding from the highest throne attributed to all Christians as an vndissoluble yoke for the knitting ioyning together with louing hearts of both body soule in Christ without which there is no certainty saue onely in the full assurance herof for hope faith without charity are of no effect This vertue in the middest of calamities is secure that neither infinit toyles nor coÌ„tinuance of seruice abateth her courage beeing in displeasure meeke and humble in concealing wrongs innocent in trueth quiet not like hatred reioycing at others calamity and pining with their prosperity But on the contrary doth as humane nature is Humanis casibus ingemescere at others misfortune shee bewayleth at their prosperity is ioyfull obseruing the right precepts of GOD in obeying him and louing her neighbours as her selfe The Carthaginians Egyptians of al vices hated immodesty and of al vertues embraced charity Thrasybilus was so charitably deuoted towardes his countrey that safely he defended it from the thirty tyrants Ionathan so entirely loued Dauid that hee tolde him all whatsoeuer his father entended against him Likewise the Turkes which are inferiour to all others as Histories doe report neuer vse to bee aboue tenne in a companie in which societie they are so marueylous louing and charitable one towardes an other that they neede of none other meanes to gouerne theÌ„selues within the compasse of comlines and decency saue onely by signes of hand beckning of couÌ„tenance without vttering any word which is to be wondered at that there should be such loue and charity amongst those who doe wander in so great darkenes and obscurity of life which is of no lesse maruaile theÌ„ truth as credible authors doe report Seing they are so giuen to embrace this vertue what should wee that haue the cleerenes of the gospel and the truth alwaies before our eyes yea wee should be so fettered and linkt thereunto as the onely patterns of charity whereby we might rest blamelesse before the presence of our glorious God abouÌ„ding with ioies hearing that coÌ„fortable voice of our blessed Lord which shal souÌ„d vnto vs Come O ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome prouided for you For the attaining of this vertue we haue a good example of a certaine elderly maÌ„ amoÌ„gst the Egyptians who being demaunded why he refused to haue any thing in his house which was eyther money or els appertained to the vse of humane life he answered that the vse of those thinges auailed not to the atchiuing of charity but charity was sufficient to procure any other thing coÌ„cluding hereby that it was impossible for man eyther to leuel his own life after a right line or els to gouerne others within the compasse or limits to him prescribed according to duty without charity in accomplishing whereof hee might be called absolutely perfect and a right vpholder of this vertue 1 Charity ransometh vs from the fetters of iniquity and deliuereth vs from the sting of death 2 Charity is compared to an euerturning spie alwaies prouiding and labouring for him in whom she resteth 3 It is the point of a charitable minded man to inuite the poore courteously to entertaine them and speedily to let them depart 4 Charity is commonly in the mouth of many but regarded of a few Of Obedience Cap. 27. OBedience is the finall period or end whereunto true felicity teÌ„deth wherupon it depeÌ„deth because it is a zeale and a testimony of an vpright and an huÌ„ble conscience shewing in all enterprises that we should obserue decency and honesty which constraineth the soule Intus incute willingly and wittily without instigation to yeeld euery one his proper duty as honor to whom honor belongeth reuerence to to whom reuerence tribute and succour to whom they belong which is an infallible obseruation to guide our steps vnto eternal blisse for first the neglecting of this dutie sheweth our rebellion and in accomplishing it we leaue an example of the feare and diligent care we haue in the obseruing effecting of that that we are commaunded The diuersity of this vertue is manyfold as belonging vnto diuers persons First our obedience towards God vnto whom belongeth all honor dutie and obedience whereupon all our stay hope and felicity is built secondly our obedience towards our king and superiors to whom we ought in all humblenes and submission to shew our selues obedient and loyall as wee are commaunded by the holy scriptures in these words Let euery one submit himself vnto the higher power Thirdly wee are bound to obey our parents for as Tully sayleth in his booke of the answere of southsaiers that nature in the beginning had made a concord betweene vs and our parents so then it were detestable to infringe the rights of nature and not to obey them Fourthly and lastly is the obedience of seruants towards their masters whom in all honest meeke sort they should obey reuereÌ„ce In neglecting of this generall duty wee shew our selues bastards reprobates deseruing the curse of our sauiour the seuerity of law not imitating the example of Christ who obeyed his father euen to death Is it not theÌ„ the duty of subiects with all humblenes to obey their superiors holding them in such high estimatioÌ„ and seruing them both with life and goods which is the proper duty of euery naturall subiect for therein consisteth the stay and state of al countreys because nothing thriueth where there is strife contention and on the contrary side all things doe florish where there do remaine loue vnity and obedience When Salomon deliberated with himselfe in this behalfe viz. after what sort a citie might be safely preserued he answered If the citizeÌ„s obey the magistrates and the magistrates obserue the lawes meaning that obedience in the subiects was a signe of great loue and loyalty and a cause why the coÌ„mon wealth should loÌ„g flourish as hauing notice and sufficient knowledge of the ruine wracke of many Cities because of disobedience Wherefore we should vtterly detest this kind of vice which hath bred so many calamities engendred sundry depopulatioÌ„s destructions of countreys ought to endeuour and shew our selues obedieÌ„t imitating the exaÌ„ple of Abraham who obeied the will of God in offering his sonne Isaac as a sacrifice so ought we with all might and maine to behaue our selues obedieÌ„tly toward our gouernours so that neither the banishment of Aristides neither the imprisonment of Anaxagoras nor yet the destruction of Phocion should terrifie or cause vs to desist from the executing of our obedieÌ„ce But leuing this generall duty I meane to expresse somwhat in particular of our seueral duties obedience towards our parents whereof we haue diuers and suÌ„dry exaÌ„ples First of Christ himselfe which obeyed his mother Marie and her husband Ioseph then of Dauid who after hee was anointed King obeyed his parents and followed

their direction in all domesticall affaires Wherby we may gather the great duty we owe vnto our parents to be no lesse then a firme bond of nature fixt in the minds bowels of euery one the which obedience Cicero so highly commended that he said The obedience of children towardes their parents is the fundation of all vertue Of which mind Torquatus sonne was who thought nothing so wicked as to disobey the will of his parents wherfore being vpon the displeasure of his father banisht he killed himselfe So likewise the duety which seruants doe owe to their masters is not much inferior to this whom they are to serue with al lowlines and seemely demeanure sustayning with patience all corrections though I deeme them not so much subiects as the seruants of FreÌ„chmen were ouer whome their masters had power of life and death and as Gellius saieth in his 15. booke and 19. chapter The ten wisemen thought that authority not onely of masters ouer their seruants but also of parents ouer their children was very necessary throughout al dominions by which means they report the CoÌ„mon wealth long to haue stood Doutles if parents ouer their children masters ouer their seruants had such authority that in respect therof the coÌ„mon welth flourished then the supreme gouernour should in equitie haue farre greater preeminence being of both parents children masters seruants a commaunder vnto whom all should bee most obedient wherby the state of the Common wealth might perfectly stande and that it might bee sayed in respect of this obedience as it was of a certaine man comming to Sparta who beheld what honour obedience and reuerence the yonger sort did to the elders and the elders to their superiors said It is expedient in this citie to become an old man and of authority meaning that the Magistrates being so much regarded by the coÌ„munalties the Common wealth should of necessity long continue Herin I coÌ„clude of obedieÌ„ce determining to passe further 1 ObedieÌ„ce formeth peace establisheth coÌ„mon wealths preuents discords wicked men obey for feare but good men for loue 2 It is a coÌ„mendable vertue in a seruant to know how to obey well 3 That countrey is well kept where the prince gouerneth rightly and the people are submissiue obedient Of Hope Cap. 28. HOpe is a sure ground of future things wished for whether they be diuine or traÌ„sitory extolling the mind of man with great extacy being grounded vpon good fundation hauing laid an vnfallible anchor depending thereon with a sure coÌ„fidence to effect and accomplish his desire which means is a sure remedy to helpe our fraile nature being ful of mistrust and diffidency whereby the spirite of man putteth great trust in weighty affairs reposing such certainty and confidence in himself which otherwise would be vaine vnperfit for he that is voyd of all hope may be accouÌ„ted to be partaker of the incideÌ„t mishap to an vnhappy man Hauing then so sure a soueraine kindling our desire emboldening our courage wee cannot possibly misse a good effect proceding from so heauenly a stay so sure a safegard who reseÌ„bleth the pure Indian spice which the more it is pund the more fragrant smell it yeeldes so the more our hope is the greater is our comfort to enioy that happines which we expect for a good and vertuous man should alwaies hope wel and feare no mishap especially beeing grounded vpon the grace of God Such a man was one of Rhodes who was cast of a tyrant into a hollow caue wherein hee was fedde after the manner of a beast being enforced to sustain reuiles and torments his face being mangled martyred with woundes who being admonished of one of his frieÌ„ds that he shuld seeke an end of his torments answered All things are to be hoped of man as long as he enioyeth life Euen so Thales Milesius being demaunded what was coÌ„mon to all men answered Hope meaning it was a soueraine good and a confederate to faith which whosoeuer hath may wel assure himself that he in continuaÌ„ce of time may attaine any thing how difficult so euer WherupoÌ„ Socrates the Philosopher said that it was impossible that either womaÌ„ without man should bring foorth good fruite or good hope without labor wherby hee iudged that good hope should not be grouÌ„ded vpon any vncoÌ„stancy which is the subiect of a vaine and licentious life wherupoÌ„ euil hope which taketh no toile is planted therefore Socrates said hope without labor could effect no good thing which like a careful nurse should be alwaies imploid or busied about some affaires or other which hinder the increase of vice for security and idlenes are accounted the mother of al enormities lewdnes by which means true hope is excluded out of doores which in whosoeuer it remaineth neuer fayleth them in the greatest extremity Such a man was Daniel who hoped so much in the mercy of God that being throwen into the Lions denne yet escaped harmeles onely by his meere hope Likewise also Iob a man that was full of good hope who in his greatest distres mistrusted not saying Loe though the Lord slay me yet will I put my trust in him Wherby it may appere that he that hopeth well shal neuer be frustrated of his expectation 1 Hope grouÌ„ded on God neuer faileth but built on the world it neuer thriueth 2 Hope of al the passions yeeldeth the sweetest sauour and the most pleasant delight wherof it is said that hope onely comforteth the miserable 3 A dastardly louer shall neuer without hope gaine faire loue without frowning fortune 4 Mellifluous words procure hope large protestations cherish it and contempt spils it 5 Hope is the fooles soueraine the Marchants comfort the Souldiors confederat and the ambitious mans poyson Of Faith Cap. 29. FAith as Cicero saieth is a constant firme bond of all sayinges and contracts appointed for the accomplishing of promises and what should be assuredly decreed vpon or as Diuines terme it is a sure stay and rocke of all Christians whereuppon consisteth all their felicity and if it bee firmly setled it neuer deceiueth the which to infringe there can be nothing worse vnto any man especially to him that ruleth because this blemish by how much the more excellent the party is wherein it resteth by so much the more openly it is to be seene and more hardly to bee rooted out Ennius reprehended the Carthaginians because they violated their faith and fidelity which was the first cause of the subuersion of their city who contended for the empire of the whole world with the Romanes which of al nations were a people of most prowesse and valour But what maruaile is it that these were so slender in obseruing of faith which is the fundation of all equity when in all places it is litle regarded and vtterly excluded out of doones begging her bread with teares as a vagabond of no reputation that I am almost ashamed to speake of

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