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
A77436	[A brief e]xhort[ation], with the means to [promote] pie[ty] especially directed to th[e] [...] of London. / By a lover thereof, a[nd] of all sincere Christians.		1669 (1669)	Wing B4591aA; ESTC R176327	10,189	27

particular person to make his private addresses to the Throne of Grace the omission of which hath certainly proved the undoing of very many and unless we herein reform as well as in the other we have as little reason to expect the safety of our Souls as they of their Bodies who will stint themselves to Two meales a day and will not out of those times taste any thing though their bodies stand in never so great need Of these private Devotions some may be constant and some occasional the constant are those which are to be performed every Morning as soon as we awake and every Night immediately before we go to sleep repeating seriously and intently in our minds either the Lord's Prayer or some short ejaculation befitting the season Occasional Devotions are those which are to be performed upon any sudden accident which befalleth us either by Night or by Day Viz. As soon as we perceive any affliction ready to befal us or when it i● come upon us Or presently upon the receipt of some great and unexpected mercy in mind body or estate Or whensoever we shall perceive the Devil putting into our minds any wicked thoughts tempting us either directly not to fear or love God as we ought to do or indirectly by perswading us either to omit or slightly to run over our daily Prayers or to omitt the daily hearing or reading of the holy Scriptures or either not at all or without due preparation to receive the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper or not to honour and obey the King or not to submit our selves to all our Governours Teachers Spiritual Pastors and Masters or not to love honour and succour our natural Parents or not to order our selves lowly and reverently to all our betters or to neglect our duty towards our Children Servants c. or to be proud to Swear rashly Curse Lye Slander to Covet Cheat Steal to be Prodigal Wanton Lacivious to Eat Drink Sleep or take our Pleasure excessively c. Lastly as soon as ever we are conscious to our selves that we have committed any of these or the like Sins in Thought Word or Deed. And upon all these or the like occasions to the utmost of our Power useing all other means or duties which we know to be necessary or expedient for us without which our devoutest Prayers and most servent ejacularions may not only be unprofitable but hurtful to us and abominable in the sight of God we may either retire to some private Place or Closer and with an audible voice pronounce or else if that cannot conveniently be done either in our Beds or at our Tables or in our shops or wheresoever we be we may in our minds only devoutly and fervently rebeat only the whole Lords Prayer 〈◊〉 any one petition of it or any other small 〈◊〉 aculation most suitable to the occasion and every such ejaculation imitating our Saviour in his most fervent Prayer immediately before he was to drink the bitter Cup of his Passion we might repeate two or three times or oftner and at every repetition endeavour more and more to kindle and inflame our affections In the Second place Let us constantly hear or read the holy Scriptures with our Morning and Evening Prayers as well in Private as Publick wherein likewise we should observe the Publick method where we have the holy Scriptures not only most excellently interwoven with our Prayers with which we are to begin and end our Spiritual meals but also appointed to be read after a most exact regular manner besides several select portions thereof most properly befitting certain seasons of the year Among the Apocryphal Lessons there be very few if any that can be excepted against but if any will not be perswaded to read them in their Families they may instead thereof read any other Lessons either out of the Old Testament or Apocrypha If there be any among us who do fancy that their worldly cares and employme will in the day of Judgment sufficiently ●●cuse them for not spending daily so muc● time in holy Duties as our Publick Service doth require supposing that a little short Prayer every Morning and Evening with a Sermon or two every Sunday is as much as they do need or God doth require o● them I shall desire them seriously to Consider 1. Whether they do not daily spend as much if not more time idly if not sinfully than that comes to if so then let them ask their own Consciences whether they will not be inexcusable in the last day 2ly If God doth require some part of every day wherein we ought solemnly to Worship him which is consented to both by the practice and judgment of all Nations whether he doth not at least require one hour in twenty four if not one hour in seven according to the proportion of one day in seven 3ly Whether it be not a very unreasonable and ungrateful thing not to allow God and our Souls an hour or two on our working-daies whereas God alloweth us on his holy-day several hours for works of necessity and mercy for our bodies and whereas by too many sad experiences we plainly see that our Souls do daily stand in as great need of holy-duties as on Sun-daies our bodies of works of necessity and mercy 4ly Whether we can spend less than an hour daily in holy-duties and whether the reading of the holy Scriptures therein be not as necessary as Prayers since the Lord did strictly charge Joshua Chap. 1.8 That the book of the Law should not depart out of his mouth but he should meditate therein day and night that he might observe to do according to all that is written therein Which command though it was given to Joshua in particular yet may as certainly oblige all persons in general as that promise I will never leave thee nor forsake thee which was given to him at the same time Chap. 1.5 doth belong unto all true Christians as it is applyed by the Apostle Heb. 13.5 And King David that sweet singer of Israel in the very first beginning of his Psalmes pronounceth a blessing upon him that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly c. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord and in his Law doth meditate day and night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of Water that bringeth forth his fruit in due season his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doth shall prosper but on the other sid●●● by way of opposition he calleth those 〈◊〉 ly that do not meditate in the Law of God day and night and sheweth that they shall be not partakers of those blessings but are like the chaff c. And certainly nothing more or better can be expressed by the tongues of Men to perswade and press us to a constant reading hearing and meditating in the word of God than what the Spirit of God hath said by King Solomon the wisest of Men in the nine