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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	2,519	5	6.3625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30267	Advice to parents and children the sum of a few sermons contracted and published at the request of many pious hearers / by Daniel Burgess ...	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5692A; ESTC R4891	23,990	80

sake still that you Honour your Parents Be sure it be your desire to please and your fear to offend God that makes you fear to offend and desire to please your Parents Read heedfully Lev. 19.3 Ye shall fear every Man his Mother and his Father and keep my Sabbaths There 's the Precept I am the Lord your God that is you else offend me who am God and your Covenant God There is the Motive Charge your Consciences to be your daily Remembrancers of this that the true Honouring of Parents is a Fruit whose Root is the true Honour of God 2. Be it as you would receive and lay up Gold that you receive and lay up the Advice your Parents give you Have and shew that you have as true a pleasure in taking the one as the other from them Convince their hearts that they do delight you when they do instruct you That would be an advantage to them and you too beyond the expression Make them to see that what is imparted unto you is not lost And that you treasure up their sayings as the Sons of Cassius did his Books When it was threatned their Fathers Books should be burnt they answered Then must you burn us too for we have his Books in our hearts Prov. 6.20 21. My Son keep thy Fathers Commandment and forsake not the Law of thy Mother Bind them continually upon thy heart and tye them about thy neck 3. Convince your Parents that you much delight in their presence That you love to be near them to hear their Wisdom Even little Children are tainted when they like better to be in the Kitchen with the servants than in the Parlor with their Parents More grown ones be poysoned when they think themselves then best when farthest from holy Parents Observation and Counsel Neither do love their persons or their piety if they love not their company The Prodigal when he had wandred from his Fathers House is said to have been dead and lost Luke 15. Holy Joseph bid his Brethren tell Jacob Thus saith thy Son Joseph come down unto me tarry not Thou shalt be near unto me thou and thy Children and thy Childrens Children Gen. 45.9 10. And Ruth who lost nothing by it said to her very Mother in Law Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge where thou diest will I die Ruth 1.16 17. God ordered that the advanced Captive should for a months time bewail the loss of her Father and Mothers converse Deut. 21.13 But 4. Let all the house see that your Parents Friends be yours and your choicest ones That your affection is swayed by theirs and you cannot but love such as they love Prov. 27.10 Thy Fathers Friends forsake not In loving my Parents God and Men do shew me love and my Parents love of both directs and excites me to the love of both I am a Child unnatural If I love not both the better for their loving and being beloved of my Parents Hear Moses Exod. 15.2 The Lord is my strength he is my God my own I will therefore prepare him an habitation my Fathers God and therefore I will exalt him Remember this Children and observe ye well 't is made an extreme aggravation of your sin that it is sinned against the God of your Fathers That is against the God that was very kind to them and was by them Honoured and Worshipped Judg. 2.12 They forsook the Lord God of their Fathers and the anger of the Lord was hot against them So Deut. 32.17 't is a dreadful charge They Sacrificed unto Devils to new Gods that came newly up whom their Fathers feared not 5. Joy your Parents joys and grieve their griefs Let Sympathy shew your Unity Let one joy of theirs make you forget six troubles and seven of your own And one sorrow of theirs unsweeten as many comforts of your own Jacob's Sons and Daughters all rose up to comfort him 37.35 And Judah professed he was not able to see his Father in superadded trouble How shall I go up to my Father and the Lad be not with me lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my Father Gen. 44.34 q. d. Rather had I be thrown in Irons my self and live and die in Slavery than add to the sorrows of my Fathers gray hairs So Reuben before when Joseph was lost in the dread of his Father's sore aking heart bittterly cries out The Child is not and I whither shall I go Gen. 37.30 Hark also how Saul speaks 1 Sam. 9.5 Come let us return lest my Father take thought for us 6. Sleep not under your Parents displeasure If you any way raise it use presently all means to lay it Be it a just or unjust Flame shew you that 't is one you are grievously tormented in Eat not Drink not Buy and Sell not till it be quenched At least till you have humbly offered all possible means for quenching it I mean all that you can do without offending God for pacifying them Next to God's wrath I would deprecate my Parents And next unto his Blessing I would desire theirs Numb 12.14 If a Father spit in a Childs face should not the Child be ashamed seven days Very Esau himself finding his Father's Blessing gone from him could not bear it but cried with tears Bless me even me also O my Father Gen. 27.13 And as for Heavenly Joseph when he heard his Father was sick he makes his utmost speed to him with his Sons also carried that he might not miss of his Blessing Gen. 48. 7. Bear patiently and bless God heartily for your Parents rebukes and corrections Very often do the best Children need both And it is of pure and greatest kindness that good Parents do give both Following them with holy prayers for Divine Blessing Go you therefore as oft as you are chastised and say to this purpose O sin sin I hate thee Had I avoided thee I had escaped this correction My tender Parents punish themselves in punishing me Thou O my sin hast now troubled them and me Much rather had they have seen my Duties than heard my Out-cries God bids them strike and not spare for my crying Yea and tells them they hate me if they scourge me not Prov. 19.18 Prov. 13.24 Children of all Creatures they are most miserable that are incorrigible and most incorrigible that are impatient of reproof and most impatient of reproof that cannot bear it from Parents See Heb. 12.9 8. Make your Parents in all things your Privy-counsellers Acquaint them with your Secrets which are of any weight Ask their advice in matters of any difficulty This will speak your esteem of their Wisdom Faithfulness and Affection And convert all of them unto your use and benefit O think of Sampson's words Judg. 14.16 I have not told my Father nor my Mother and should I tell it thee As if he had said