Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	wife_n	word_n	3,358	5	4.9141	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17318	A caueat for suerties two sermons of suertiship, made in Bristoll, by VV. Burton.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1593 (1593)	STC 4166; ESTC S109542	35,827	94

A CAVEAT FOR SVERTIES Two Sermons of Suertiship made in Bristoll by VV. Burton LONDON Printed by Richard Field for Tobie Cooke dwelling in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Tygers-head 1593. ACAVEAT FOR SVERTIES Prou. 6. 1. My sonne if thou be Suerty for thy neighbour and hast stricken hands vvith the straunger 2. Thou art snared vvith the vvordes of thy mouth thou art euen taken vvith the vvordes of thy own mouth 3. Do this novv my sonne and deliuer thy selfe seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour go and humble thy selfe and sollicite thy friends 4. Giue no sleepe to thy eyes nor slumber to thy eye liddes 5. Deliuer thy selfe as a Doe froÌ„ the haÌ„d of the hunter as a bird from the hande of the fowler THis text is a schoole wherin Suerties are taught to flie such discommodities and annoyaunces as commonly come to Suerties by vndiscretenesse and rashnesse And it may be called the Suerties text because it prouideth for the securitie of Suerties as Suerties prouide for the securitie of others wherein almightie God giueth counsell vnto Suerties as vnto his children which if they follow then are they sure to stand when other are like to fall Therfore as S. Paul saith to Timothy in an other case Take heede to thy selfe to learning and continue therein for in so doing thou shalt saue thy selfe them that heare thee So I say to Suerties take heed to your selues and to your heauenly Fathers counsell and continue therein for in so doing you shall saue both your selues and others The candle that is carried in a laÌ„terne shall light many caÌ„dels yet loose no part of his owne light be the winde neuer so boisterous but that candle that is opeÌ„ to the weather a litle puffe of winde or one drop of raine shal put it out that it can neither giue light to others nor to it selfe So he to whom the word of God is a lanterne a light shall helpe himselfe and others when he that ventureth without it shall put out his owne light and the light of others also Here therefore the Lord doth teach meÌ„ to auoide such discommodities and annoyances as many through rashnesse and for want of discretion do fall into for the Lordes people must be a wise people And God would not haue thee to helpe thy neighbour without any care to saue thy selfe for although he hath said Loue thy neighbour as thy selfe yet he neuer said loue thy neighbour better theÌ„ thy selfe or loue thy selfe lesse then thy neighbour but loue him as thy selfe that is helpe him and saue thy selfe too or else thou shouldest loue him and hate thy selfe which in the same wordes is condemned For this end and purpose it hath pleased the Lord that dwelleth in the heauens to stoupe downe so low as to take order for our businesse here vpoÌ„ earth that we following his orders it might go well with vs and our children for euer And this counsell concerning Suerties though it be an oeconomicall thing yet it is not a base thing as some haue thought the spirite of God to occupie himselfe in base matters But by this we may perceiue how carefull the spirite of God is for vs in all things he is become our ouerseer and would keepe vs euen in the smallest things that we are to take in haÌ„d He hath giuen vs this warning as if he were an ouerseer of our money and our losses but yet he doth not so much prouide for the benefite of the body as of the soule God hath set down a perfect rule for all things which is able to make the man of God perfect yea he hath vouchsafed to stoupe so low as to come home into euery mans familie and to haue a care of our domesticall affaires that though we care not how we go to worke yet our heauenly Father hath a care that we should walke according to his word which he hath set vp to be a lanterne to our feete and a light vnto our pathes This being true as it is most true we may be bold to lay downe these three conclusions following First that the word of God containeth a perfect rule for the ordering of all our affaires And whatsoeuer is requisite either to be beleeued in matters of doctrine or to be practised in matters of manners either towards God or man is from that fountaine to be drawen and in that schoole most exactly and perfectly taught It teacheth the King to raigne the Iudge to giue iudgemeÌ„t the Magistrate to beare rule the subiect to obey The Minister from hence may learne how to preach and the people may learne how to heare Here the Captaine may learne how to pitch his battaile and the common souldier is taught his dutie If thou be a husband here thou mayst learne how to rule thy wife and the wife may see in this glasse how to obey and to please her husbaÌ„d The word of God hath layd downe most absolute instructions for fathers and children for masters and seruaunts for superiours and inferiours and for all estates In prosperitie and aduersitie in sicknesse and in health in warre in peace in youth in old age in the field at home at bed and at bord in all places and at all times thou mayst here learne how to behaue thy selfe Here is order taken for our eating and drinking for feasting and fasting for sportes and pastimes how to recreat the body and how to solace the minde for the apparell we put on and for the very haire of our head for the gestures of our body and the whole behauiour of our life It hath taken order for buying and selling for borrowing and leÌ„ding for giuing taking for finding and loosing there is a rule layd downe in the word of God how to become Suertie and how to escape the daunger of Suertiship here may the man of God be instructed in a word whatsoeuer belongeth to pollicie to ciuilitie or to Christianitie for this life or for the life to come it is most exquisitly most plentifully and most plainly layd downe in the booke of God If thou delightest to read Histories or Chronicles read Gods booke If thou wouldest see the creation of the world and how the same is preserued and the nature of the creatures read Gods booke If thou louest to tell and to heare of famous Kings Captaines of wonderfull battailes and victories of excellent Iudges and Magistrates of renowned Preachers and Prophets of coÌ„stant professours and martyrs peruse the booke of God If thou wouldest see coÌ„mon-wealthes florishing and going to ruine with the causes of both be acquainted with the booke of God If thou wouldest see the Church of God in her infancie and in her riper age in her rags and in her robes clensed and polluted increasing and decreasing with her enemies and her friends be not straunge to the word of God Would any see the

Suertie nor peace could be preserued amongest meÌ„ and so much for the first point Now as touching the second point in a word There be diuerse kindes of Suerties for some are Suerties for mens persons that they shalbe forth coÌ„ming by a day either to answere such matters as shalbe obiected against them before some Iudge or to receiue such punishment as is already awarded for his misdemeanour In such cases commonly the prison is the best Suerty Some are Suerties for mens debtes and bargaines that they shalbe payd and performed accordingly as they be made and promised Some are Suerties for mens behauiour that it shalbe good honest and peaceable towardes all men in generall or towardes some one especiall partie and towardes his goods and familie and this is coÌ„moÌ„ly required of notorious offeÌ„ders in cases of slandering and quarrelling against a mans person or deprauing of a maÌ„s good name lest a mans good name should be more impeached and his credite more hindred then it was before Men in such cases become Suerties for their friendes in hope of their amendement And Suertiship in such cases do more binde a mans toung then the prison can because most men if there be but common ciuilitie in them will forbeare many times for their friendes sake lest they should be endamaged to whoÌ„ they are so much beholding then for all the extremitie that can be vsed There is no man so wicked but he shall finde some body ready to promise for him as one theefe for another or one bankerupt for another or one beastly person for the honestie of another or one rakehel for another now this it but a mockery as if one should say Aske my fellow if I be theefe or if I be dishonest or if I be not a maÌ„ of my word c. And therfore haue Christian lawes well prouided that euery mans word or bond is not to be admitted neither shall all persons and causes passe and repasse vnder Suerties for though some might flie to the hornes of the alter haue the benefite of a priuiledged place yet Ioab the man of bloud shalbe smitten before the alter neither shall the sanctuarie saue his life when he flieth vnto it much lesse shall any Suerties giue their word for him We are all bound to do what we can to winne men to God and to perswade all men vnto holy obedience but to answer vnto God whatsoeuer his law can charge vs withall is a thing which belongeth onely and properly to the Lord Iesus Christ that great Suertie of mankind and so much for the 2. point Now for the lawfulnesse of Suertiship we are to know that it is a dutie both Christian and necessarie and therfore it cannot be vnlawfull That it is a dutie of Christianitie may appeare two wayes first by the rule of charitie secoÌ„dly by the exaÌ„ples of godly men which haue practised the same The rule of charitie we know and that is to do for others as we would be done vnto our selues If therefore Christians would be glad of a Suertie when they are in necessitie then Christians must also when neede requireth do so much for others To become Suertie for meÌ„s persons is no doubt a worke of charity for what if meÌ„ be arrested of mallice euill will as many be or what if such extreme actioÌ„s be layd by vnreasonable men vpon thy neighbour as shall make a man afrayde to speake for him as many do or what if such practises be vsed of purpose to discredite thy neighbour in a strange place where he is not knowen shall it not be then lawful to relieue thy neighbour by thy word vntil his cause may be knoweÌ„ verely if thou wilt not rescue him and shrowde him vnder the shadow of thy wings but let the prison consume his body and wicked men make a pray of his goods thou thy selfe mayst one day come into the like predicament and then thou wilt coÌ„fesse that Suertiship in such a case is a worke of charitie But further what if thy Christian brother be arrested vpon suspition of euill when notwithstanding he is innocent if he go to prison his good name is called into question if he lye in prison his goods go to wracke his health is in hazard his life is in danger both he and his are like to smart for it Now if any man thinke it vnlawfull to giue his neighbour leaue to refresh himselfe and to saue his life his goodes and his good name vnder the shadow of his credite protection of his promise let him imagine himselfe to be the man that is so handled and then he will confesse that Suertiship for meÌ„s persons is a worke of charitie and therefore lawfull But yet further what if thy Christian brother be falsely accused and wrongfully imprisoned as Ioseph was and it is yet vnknowen is it not lawfull nay are we not bound in such a case to redeeme the libertie of our brother with our word or bonds if it may be or what if a man had bene Suertie for Iosephs appearance if his libertie might haue bene obtained shall we say that such a man had sinned God forbid if any thinke so let him know that Iosephs case may one day proue his case and then he will confesse that Suertiship for mens persons is a worke of charitie and therefore lawfull But what if my brother be in debt must either go to prison or finde Suerties for the payment of the debt by a day Surely if he be a Christian he is thy brother how canst thou see thy Christian brother by languishing in prison where he doth onely spend but not get when if he were abroad to worke in his calling he might both helpe himselfe and pay his debtes Imagine that rich Iob were the man when all was gone froÌ„ him and he left as naked in the world as he was when he came into the world what if his creditors should then take him by the throate and say pay that thou owest or else put me in sufficient Suerties lest thou go to prison as the manner of many is when they see their debters fall in decay shall we say that he should haue sinned against the law of charitie which is the rule of Christianitie that should haue giuen his word with Iob for the payment of his debt by such a time and in such a reasonable maner as might be agreed vpon If this be not sufficient to perswade thee remember that no man is so high but may be brought low as there is no full sea but hath his ebbing and Iobs case may proue thy case and then thou wilt hold that Suertiship is a dutie both necessarie and Christian and therfore very lawfull But put case that my brother hath offended some body by word or deede and must either finde Suerties for his good behauiour or else go to prison Surely if he be sorie for his offence and if he shall craue

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