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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,280	5	11.2870	5	true

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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 cōtinuance 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 thēselues within the compasse of comlines and decency saue onely by signes of hand beckning of coūtenance 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 thē 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 aboūding with ioies hearing that cōfortable voice of our blessed Lord which shal soūd 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 mā amōgst 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 cōcluding 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 tēdeth wherupon it depēdeth because it is a zeale and a testimony of an vpright and an hūble 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 reuerēce 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 thē the duty of subiects with all humblenes to obey their superiors holding them in such high estimatiō 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 citizēs 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 cōmon wealth should lōg 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 depopulatiōs destructions of countreys ought to endeuour and shew our selues obediēt imitating the exāple 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 obediētly 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 obediēce 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 sūdry exāples 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