Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	husband_n	mother_n	sister_n	13,459	5	11.1008	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08282	A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1626 (1626)	STC 18615; ESTC S119966	125,732	476

beene as the hand to giue him from thee food for his body whereby by thy blessing he hath beene corporally sustained and growne strong in the flesh though weake in spirituall graces which are not in me to instill into him no● bestow vpon him He is indeed of the poluted seede of offending Adam yet maist thou be pleased and I humbly pray thee to accept him into thy fauour instructe him in thy feare indue him with heauenly knowledge and a perfect faith in thee and guide him by thy grace in a godly religious and sincere conuersation that he may cease to doe euill and cleaue vnto that which is good then shall hee serue thee and I shall prayse thee for his reformation and saluation Let neither his sinnes nor mine O Lord any more prouoke thee to anger lest thy seuere iudgements should fall vpon him and shame and griefe vpon vs his parents but his repentance shall be our comfort and wee shall reioyce in his conuersion and not onely we his parents but all the godly shall reioyce at his returne into the spirituall Societie of thy Saints Graunt it gracious Lord God for thy Christs sake whose righteousnesse accept as his righteousnesse and thy sonnes merits for mine and my sons many sinnes Amen Lord increase in him the holy feare of thy great name faith and obedience vnto thee and giue me grace with patience and prayer to wayte his holy reformation A perswasion to patience in the crosses that often fall betweene man and wife fit to be considered of maried folkes for their mutuall comfort with counsell to such as intend to mary THere is no man or woman fit for mariage estate that is ignorant and consider not of the causes for which that holy estate was instituted of God But now in this latter age many rashly enter into it neither knowing the causes rightly nor vse it reuerently which is the occasion of many breaches betweene man and wife In former times men and women were onely maried but now boyes gerles that onely feele by natures instinct that mariage is a pleasant life and are onely led by that lawe of lust to runne and rush headlong into that sacred estate without feare or wit like a barde horse into a battle not fore-seeing nor considering the dangers and troubles they runne into which holy estate ought not to be vndertaken but with highest reuerence vnto and in the feare of God the author of it Many onely consider that God created man male and female the man for the woman the woman for the man and consider not the sacred vse nor the institution of mariage they looke not into the beginning how God created man and the woman of the man to the end they two should by this coniunction become one and of one heart and one minde in two bodies they can peraduenture saye that indeed the woman was made of the ribbe of the man but that that bone became flesh of his flesh and by that meanes they two became one they cannot conceiue and yet will aduenture without either examination or consideration of the danger to take a wife and the woman a husband their least duties to God not learned of them at all nor considered Hastie mariages bring commonly as hastie repentance not that praise worthie repentance for sinne but for the sorrowe their vnaduised mariage hath brought them vnto rashly vndertaken without asking counsell of God whence doe spring all the troubles iarres brawles and discontentes betweene the man and the wife thus vnaduisedly coupled together But man and wife conioyned together in the Lord namely where they onely aime to liue together in his holy feare and humblenesse of heart in a liuely faith craue his holy fauour and fatherly direction to guide and gouerne them and after due reuerence vnto the Lord they yeeld mutuall and godly loue one to another with due obedience to God and after one to the other labouring to keepe peace vnitie and concorde betweene themselues in ayding helping cherishing sustaining each other in pouertie as in riches in sickenesse as in health and be of like godly affection one towards another with daily mutuall prayers to God that he will giue a blessing vnto them they may assure themselues to liue in plentie and peace and whatsoeuer crosses troubles or afflictions befall them they encourage one the other in the feare of God to beare them together with equall patience and whatsoeuer blessing they receiue at the hands of God they together giue thankes for the same These maried folkes thinke it not sufficient as many doe to ioyne hand in hand a token of their intire affections one to the other but heart with heart in the feare of God neuer to be disioyned vntill death deuide them But how can hearts be truely ioyned together that are of contrarie dispositions as many proue to be that make showe of a godly loues beginning can bitter and sweet can loue and hatred can ioye and griefe dwell together and how can hearts contrarily affected comfort one the other in the Lord can a truely louing wife reioyce to see her husband grieue or can a religiously kinde husband sing seeing his wife lament will they not rather enquire the cause of each others sadnesse and seeke the meanes to remoue it their ioye sorrow should be one as they are one they should beare equally one anothers burthen and neuer to be bitter one towards the other It is against the nature of man to hurt wittingly or wilfully his owne flesh but rather to vse all meanes to perserue it and therefore as man and wife by this sacred coniunction are of twaine made as it were one intire bodie though disiunct in person how can the one seeke to hurte the other but they must both feele the smart Discorde and dislike betweene man and wife is a crosse of all crosses a griefe of all griefes and a miserie aboue all miseries vnto either partie fearing God for as peace and concorde betweene them buildeth and establisheth the house so quarels and brawles turne it vpside downe Peace and loue twixt man and wife makes bitter waters sweet but hatred and iarres bring best things out of taste The good agreement betweene man and wife is one of the three things commended by God and man and the contrarie condemned of both If the loue and vnitie of brethren bee so sweete and pleasant a thing as that Dauid compares it to the most pretious oyntment what may be thought of the mutuall loue and godly agreement betweene a man and his wife when as either of them is to forsake father and mother brother and sister and all friends to betake them each to other A miserable thing it is and aboue all other former times in this our age to be lamented to see and obserue and many times to feele the discordes and quarels that arise betweene the husband and the wife the