Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	child_n	duty_n	parent_n	4,781	5	9.4169	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42830	Seasonable reflections and discourses in order to the conviction & cure of the scoffing, & infidelity of a degenerate age by Jos. Glanvill ...	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1676 (1676)	Wing G830; ESTC R23378	24,921	115

sence Every such is a Priest to his own family that is it is his duty to teach them the great things of Religion according to the best of his skill and knowledg This is one way to provide for our families and 't is the most necessary Men had better neglect the getting their Children and Servants Bread and Cloaths than to omit the care about this greater and more needed provision 'T is noted to the honour of the holy Patriarch That he would teach his Children Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a youth and all Parents are required to bring up their Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Were not this duty so much neglected Ministers would find their people more teachable and less uncapable of the greater and stronger truths that they yet know not more tenacious of and better setled in those that they know already and more able to shame and to resist the attempts of Gain-sayers Among all the Preaching we have this is very much needed and the great defect that is the occasion of most of our Churchmaladies lyes here We are very apt to catch at any thing that may fasten a blame on our Ministers when there is the least shew of neglect on their parts I wish we could be sensible of and reform this great one of our own C. But what think you of the Homilies Are not they very useful and fit to be read in Churches instead of so much other Preaching For my part I should like that A. The Homilies contain very good pious and wholsom instructions and doctrines and in due place and time may be used with great profit and advantage But I suppose you do not pretend to have them in to exclude all other Preaching For that would render the abilities of learned Ministers as to this part of their office useless There are many occasions which those discourses make no provision for and by such a practice the people in all likelyhood would be very much discontented if not inflamed I suppose therefore you mean not that the Homilies should thrust out all other Preaching but that in some places and times they might be profitably used C. No I think it would be well if they were generally enjoyn'd and such others added to them as should be thought seasonable and fit A. I have as great a reverence for that Book as you and as great a sense of the inconveniences that arise from the defects of many Preachers But we must not always judge of things as they are nakedly in their natures but circumstances must be weigh'd Publick Governours are not only to consider the goodness but expediency and in reference to a due judgment in that many extrinsecal matters are to be taken into the account Now as our case is we have blessed be God plenty of learn'd and most excellent Preachers as many I believe as any Age or Nation ever had Those have bestowed much time pains and cost for the furnishing themselves with abilities for the Pulpit and after all to suppress their excellent and useful labours and to set them upon the same level with those that can but read would be a great discouragement to them and loss to the Church it would dishearten and divert young Students in the Universities be a great damp upon learning and in all likelyhood destroy the glory of those venerable Fountains of Piety and Literature Besides which the People you know are so prejudiced that it would possess them with rage against their Governours and contempt of their Ministers fill the Conventicles and 't is to be fear'd make our breaches and divisions incurable So that certainly you are not in earnest in this or if you are I suppose there are but very few of your mind I have heard some talk indeed that they thought it might do well if only some select men in every Diocess and those to be seated in the most eminent places should be allow'd to Preach and the fame enjoyned to make every year so many Sermons to be deliver'd to the Bishop as in the whole should come to fifty two besides some for the anniversary dayes that a Volume of those Sermons should be printed yearly That each Minister of those not licensed to Preach their own should have a Copy and no more be printed than would suffice for them That they should read or recite one of these by heart every Sunday till they should arrive to such Age and Ability as to be thought fit to be intrusted with the instructing the people with their own Sermons What this would do and how practicable it is I shall not pretend to determine It looks I confess plausibly enough But I am no proposer of new projects these matters must be left to our Governours and I mention this only by the by C. You are resolv'd to have your own opinion in all things we have talked on and you shall for me But notwithstanding all you have said I shall not be persuaded to have so good an opinion of Preaching as you seem to have till I have reason to think that the Preachers believe their own Doctrines A. By that you seem to intimate that you think they do not A very hard thought that should not be entertain'd lightly What any man believes we cannot tell but by his professions and the Clergy make zealous and earnest profession of the Christian truths and therefore 't is great injustice and uncharitableness to judge otherwise of them except upon clear evidence Charity thinketh no evil it makes the best and most candid interpretations of things that are capable of wrong construction But to judg and surmise evil where there is no appearance of it this is to exercise a lawless and brutish force upon the names of men and to rejoyce in iniquity as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 1. 13. No ones reputation can be safe from any aspersion if men may take this lewd liberty of fastening the worst they can phancy on them so that except you can make out what you say which I am sure you cannot you manifestly incurr the guilt of being an accuser of the Brethren To asperse any private Christian in this manner is a great sin how much more is it so to slander an whole order of publick persons that bear a Sacred Character For you do not only injure them in their persons but mischief others by it whom by such reproaches you prejudice against them and so hinder the good that otherwise they might do by their labours On which account the reputation of Ministers is and ought to be dear to those that are truly honest and conscientious and where men love to pickeer and to find faults with Ministers 't is a plain case that they have some corrupt byas that sways them in those Censures C. For my part I thank God I have none But by their fruits ye shall know them Their actions preach contrary to their Sermons and are too plain indications of