Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	brethren_n	father_n	joseph_n	2,518	5	9.7131	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13339	The amendment of life comprised in fower bookes: faithfully translated according to the French coppie. Written by Master Iohn Taffin, minister of the word of God at Amsterdam.; Traicté de l'amendement de vie. English	Taffin, Jean, 1529-1602.	1595 (1595)	STC 23650; ESTC S118083	539,421	558

no reputation took on him the forme of a seruant and was made like vnto man was found in shape as a man He humbled himselfe became obedient vnto death eueÌ„ vnto the death of the crosse And therefore in obedience to parents children are to lay off all greatnes and excellencie whatsoeuer and to submit themselues to any rebuke yea euen to the shamefulest death rather then by contempt or disobedience to offend their parents And least any man should reply that ther is great difference between God the father and fathers according to the flesh Luk. 2.51 S. Luke noteth that Iesus Christ was subiect to his mother and to his supposed father Ioseph What greatnes then may there bee in children that should exempt them froÌ„ obedience to their parents sith Iesus Christ the prince of glory the king of kings and Lord of Lords because subiect and obedient to a poore man his putatiue father and to a mother of simple and meane calling 8 This obedience doth S. Paul commend vnto vs saying Col. 3.20 Ephe. 6.1 Children obey your parents in all things Adding this reason for that is acceptable to the Lord. And in that he saith in an other place It is right He taketh from children all reply For is there any child that will denie that he is not bound to do that which is right or that which is pleasing or acceptable vnto God Moses saith Leuit. 19.3 Euery of you shall stand in awe of his father and mother And in truth he that loueth his father and his mother feareth their displeasure As contrariwise he that reiecteth their precepts admonitions or reprehensions and so shaketh off the yoke of obedience subiection that obstinatly he may set himself to work wickednes sheweth that he despiseth the image of God that they beare treadeth vnder foot then authoritie ouer him Such children or rather monsters in nature are to looke for no other but Gods horrible iudgement against theÌ„ Prou. 30.17 And Salomon saith The eye that meeketh his father despiseth the instruction of his mother the Rauens of the vally shall picke it out and the young Eagles shall eate it Neither would God permit that such impietie shoulde escape without an expresse decree to put to death such children If any man saith Moses hath a sonne that is stubborne disobedient Deut. 21.18 which will not harken vnto the voice of his father vnto the voice of his mother they haue chastened him he would not obey them then shal his father and his mother take him bring him out vnto the elders of his Citie and vnto the gate of the place where hee dwelleth and shall say vnto the elders of his Citie This our sonne is stubborne and disobedient he wil not obey our admonitioÌ„ he is a riotor a drunkerd Then all the men of his Cittie shall stone him with stones vnto death so shalt thou take away euill from among you that all Israell may here it feare Behold how God by coÌ„manding that disobedient children should be rooted out willeth that all children should feare to disobey their parents least they might incur the like punishment For surely the disobedience of children is an assured token that God will roote them out As wee reade of the sonnes of Hely the high priest 1. Sam 2.25 who when their father reproued them for their iniquitie did not obey his voice because it is expresly set downe the Lord purposed to destroy them The very heathen haue euermore highly coÌ„mended reuerence obedience vnto parents Among the rest The Lacedemonians published a law wherby it was lawfull for parents to make whom they would Plut. in Licur euen straungers their heires Therby to induce children to reuerence and obey their parentes 9 Yet must this subiection obedience be holy and not repugnant to the seruice of God So as obedience to parents be no disobedience to God Ephe. 6.1 And this doth S. Paul note saying Children obey your parents in the Lord that is to say according to the Lord or for the Lords sake therfore if parents coÌ„mand any thing contrary to Gods glory or the saluation of the soul the children are in duty to practise the instruction of the Apostles Act. 4.19 who said Is it right in the sight of God that we obey you rather then him The law is comprehended in two Tables the summarie wherof doth import that we loue God and our neighbor But the loue of God goeth before Iesus Christ calleth it the first gretest commandement And therfore saith Mat. 22.38 Mat 10.37 He that loueth father or mother more then me is not worthie of me Gods coÌ„mandement of obedience to parents doeth not abolish all difference betweene good euill neither bindeth children to disobey God the parents authoritie cannot priueledge their children to coÌ„mit sin The well ordered child will alwaies agree with the law to abstaine from whatsoeuer is therein prohibited neither will he obey such coÌ„mandements of his earthly father as are contrary to his heauenly father Yet are childreÌ„ in duty to loue honor obey their parents whatsoeuer euen Idolaters and wicked For as the loue of nature is not abolished by the wickednes of men for they still abide men so wicked Idolatrous parents remaining parents doe retaine the right of parents Prosper sentences out of Augustine and such are to be honored yea euen to command bee obeyed so long as they coÌ„mand nothing prohibited by the heaueÌ„ly father We must saith S. August so loue men that wee loue not their vices For to loue that which they are is one thing to hate that which they doe is another 10 Yet doth this word Honor coÌ„prehend an other dutie of children to their parents That is to comfort them in their aduersities to relieue their want and to helpe and serue them in whatsoeuer they need at their childreÌ„s hands neither shal they herein perform any more theÌ„ the payment of part of their debts whereto they are bound in coÌ„sideration of the benefits that they first receiued from their parents This is the duty wherto S. Paul expresly exhorteth them saying If any widow haue children or childreÌ„ of her children let theÌ„ learne first to shew godlines toward their own house Tim. 54. to recompence their kindred for that is an honest thing acceptable before God Herein did Ioseph performe the duty of a child to his father brethreÌ„ Gen. 45.9 To whom when he greeued himselfe he saide make hast and get ye vp to my father and say vnto him thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph God hath made me Lord ouer all Egypt come therefore vnto me and make no tarying and thou shalt inhabite the land of Gosham shal the neere vnto me Thou thy children the children of thy children I wil relieue thee least thou shouldest perish for hunger thou

thy houshold and all that is thine Being aduanced to such honor he forgot not neither dispised his poore father besides that albeit his brethren had so wickedly entreated him yet he forgot that iniury and vndertoke to feed them Hereto had relation Christs commending of his mother wheÌ„ he said behold thy mother hee accordingly performed the duty of a child to her and toke her home vnto him Iohn 19 27. We also read that when a certaine father was condemned to be famished in prison his daughter came daylie to visit him and because she was narowly serched least shee should bring him any food hauing no other meanes to help him she suckled him with her brests Valerius Max. wheervpon because her father liued longer then was expected she was watched and being knowen how shee had relieued him they gaue him to his daughters piety and deliuered him out of prison 11 This duetie did the Grecians name by a name deriued from the Storckes who feede and nourish their dammes when they are impotent through age so are vnto vs as misterisses to teach vs to acknowledge the good that wee haue receiued from them that brought vs into this world and bred vs vp Such therefore as being able doe refuse to supply and relieue the necessities of their parents so shew themselues deuoide of naturall affection must bee sent to schoole among the Storckes that of them they may learne to yeelde due reuerence to their parentes And of these is the number at this day too great yea and such that it is growne to a common speech that one father or mother can bee content to relieue a dozen children but a dosen children will not feede one father or mother But if of necessitie they be put to doe it it is with great difficulty such strife as may iustly minister occasioÌ„ of grief and sorrow vnto both father and mother A certaine Cinical Philosopher writing to his wife about his new borne sonne promiseth so to teach him Crates that he will returne him vnto her not a dogge alter the name of their sect but a Storcke that should relieue her in her age But the children of our daies are more hard to receiue this instructioÌ„ the rather coÌ„sidering the inhumanity that appeareth in many notwithstanding they be taught their duties in the schoole not of a Cynicall philosopher but of God himselfe in his Church 12 But as in many children couetousnes choaketh all feeling of this duty toward parents So Satan transforming himselfe into an Angel of light euen long since induced the Iewes to defeate their parents of this reliefe assistance vnder the colour of the seruice honor of God Mark 7.9 In this respect doth Iesus Christ obiect vnto theÌ„ that they taught that euery gift by the children offered vnto God should profit the parents but he bitterly reproueth theÌ„ for it protesting that it is the tradition of men that reuearseth the commandement of God And herein he declareth first that this commandement Honor thy father and mother comprehendeth also the dutie to relieue helpe them in their necessities Secondly that refusing to relieue the want of their parents eueÌ„ vnder colour of offering vnto God that which they ought to giue vnto them they do quite abolish this coÌ„mandement Thirdly by conferring Gods ordinance to put to death all those that shall curse either father or mother with this coÌ„mandement to honor them in relieuing their necessities he sheweth that despising of parents in their necessity and not relieuing them is as a cursing of them and consequently a transgression that deserueth death 13 To coÌ„clude to the end to inuite childreÌ„ to honor their parents as is afore shewed God addeth this promise Ephe. 6 2. That thy dais may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee And Saint Paul doth note that it is the first commaundement with promise For albeit there be a promise added to the second yet is the same common vnto the whole law But this is peculiar and especiall to all such childreÌ„ as honor their parents for herein hath God declared how highly hee commendeth the obedience and honour that children yeelde to them And the same haue the Heathen also noted as among others Menander an auncient Poet who saith Of honor vnto parents due the hope of happy life ensue But the Lord spake to the Israelities properly of the land that hee had promised them for an inheritance which should be vnto them as a testimonie and seale of his goodnesse and loue toward them It is therefore as if he should haue said To the end that liuing vpon the earth thou maiest long enioye the earnest penye of my goodnesse and grace toward thee But now seeing the whole earth is blessed to the faithfull the promise of long life vpon the earth is vnto vs also a blessing of God First because we can not liue long without participating in many and great benefits of God euen in respect of the preseruation of this present life Secondly because the faithfull may the longer employ themselues to serue and glorifie God In consideration whereof we see what the Church in olde time saide Psal 115.17 The dead praise not the Lord neither any that goe downe into the place of silence But we will praise the Lord from hence foorth and for euer The same doth Ezechia king of Iuda also note in his cantikle Esay 38.19 The lyuing the liuing he shall confesse thee as I doe this day The father to the children shall declare thy truth 14 In as much therefore as long life is promised as a blessing God doth continue it to obedient children so long as it is a blessing vnto them And hereupon doth Saint Paule ioyne together these two sentences That it may goe well with thee Ephe. 6.3 and that thou maiest liue long vpon the earth As also when God taketh away such obedient children before they be olde yea before they come vnto mans state whether it bee least malice shoulde corrupt their harts or to preuent some great calamities wherin they might paraduenture be entangled or vpon whatsoeuer other considerations to receiue them into a better life he doth faithfully performe his promise vnto such children because hee dealeth better then promise with them But as contrariwise this promise threatneth such children as will not honor their parents with short life So doe experience declare that many such children are of short and wretched life But if contrariwise such disobedient children do chance to liue long so farre is such long life from being vnto them a blessing that to the contrary it is an enforcement and encrease of woe because they enlarge their iust condemnation so as they had beene better to haue dyed in their youth But how euer it be God so disposeth hereof that by the effects we may perceiue that they which honor their parents are blessed and the others accursed 15

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