Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	appear_v	love_v	son_n	2,609	5	5.7862	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01685	A vvork vvorth the reading VVherein is contayned, fiue profitable and pithy questions, very expedient, aswell for parents to perceiue howe to bestowe their children in marriage, and to dispose their goods at their death: as for all other persons to receiue great profit by the rest of the matters herein expressed. Newly published by Charles Gibbon.; Work worth the reading	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1591 (1591)	STC 11821; ESTC S101910	36,863	70

that feare him There shall none cast their frute or be barren Exod. 23. 26. It is said the Lord shut vp euery wombe of the house of Abimelech and why for a punishment of sinne because of Sarah Gen 20. 18. The barren woman enioyes not the promise which God made to them that were maried to haue issue but principally shee is depriued of that promise that God made to Abraham that he would increase his seede Therfore let no man lightly esteeme of children as many do which accompt them rather a charge than a blissing a trouble than a benefit for as they bee arguments of the loue of God as may appeare in Hannah whose praier the Lord remembred 1. Sam. 1. 19. so they be meanes to increase mutuall loue betweene man and wife for after Leah had borne a sonne she was perswaded her husband would loue her and keepe her companie Gen. 29. 32. 34. Notwithstanding as godly children are a great gift of God so the wicked are a great griefe to the parēts one a renowne the other a reproach to them Now manie will say A good tree bringeth foorth good frute so condemne the parents by their childrēs impietie but let no man iudge rashly for it falleth out sometime by men as in other matters there are few trees that beare frute but haue some windfalls few gardens that bring forth flowrs but haue some weeds few men that haue issue but some proue euill Noah had Cham aswell as Sem Abraham Ismael aswell as Isaac Dauid Absolom aswell as Salomō yet Noah Abraham Dauid were the children of God But I will omit this matter and manifest my meaning by an example There is one that dwelleth by me that is verie wealthie who hath but three sonnes to impart his liuing to he hath bestowed great cost vpon the eldest to preferre him by learning yet presuming of his patrimonie as manie rich heires doo in these daies he is either foolish or vnfortunate for hee yeelds in steed of wisedome wantonnes for learning lewdnes and for obediencie obstinacie yea he had better haue bin put to Cart than to Cambridge so he might haue reaped more profite and haue eased his fathers purse but his other two sonnes hee hath brought vp with litle cost yet they increase his possessions by their paines now this man at his death doth disinherite his eldest sonne that procured his griefe and bequeath it to the two yonger that augmented his gaine Now in this case I demaund whether he may lawfully disinherite his eldest sonne yea or no. Tych. I doo not thinke that the prauitie of his demeanor can barre him of the priuiledge of his dignitie for the first borne were euer most to bee preferred according as it is written If a man haue two wiues one loued another hated they haue borne him childrē both the loued also the hated if the first borne be the son of the hated then when the time commeth that he appointeth his sons to be heires of that which he hath he may not make the son of the beloued first born before the son of the hated which is the first borne but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first borne giue him double portiō of al that he hath for he is the first of his strength to him belongeth c. Deu 21. 15 16 17 Phil. What dignitie hath the first borne aboue the rest of his brethren seeing they are al ingendred in one womb proceed al frō one woman beside that law you repeate was litle respected for Abrahā had children of the hated before the loued Gen. 18. 4. of his concubines before his wiues Gen. 22. 24. and yet it is said of him he gaue all his goods to Isaac whom he had by Sarah his wife Gen. 25. 5. Tych. If the elder were not to be dignified aboue his brethren what mooued the Lord to say to Cayne that his brother Abels desire shuld be subiect to him and that he should rule ouer him Gen. 4. 7 Yea what caused Iaacob to say to Reuben his eldest sonne thou art my might and the beginning of my strength the excellencie of dignitie and the excellencie of power Gen. 49. 3 Phil. But is it not lawfull for a man to giue his possessions to whom he please Tych. Not in all cases for it is neither naturall nor agreeable to Gods word for a man to giue his inheritance to a meere stranger hauing both children and kindred as it appeareth in the olde Lawe where it is written If a man die haue no sonne then ye shall turne his inheritance to his daughter and if he haue no daughter ye shall giue his inheritance vnto his brethren if he haue no brethren ye shal giue his inheritāce vnto his fathers brethrē if his father haue no brethren ye shal giue his inheritaunce vnto his next kinseman of his familie and hee shall possesse it Nombers 27. 8. c. What was Naboths answere to King Ahab when he demaunded to buy his vineyard The Lord keepe me saith he from giuing the inheritance of my father vnto thee 1. King 21. 3. it was this that made the King not onely to kill him but to extinguish all issue of inheritance his sonnes likewise 2. King 9. 26. Naomi came out of her Countrie of Moab to sell a little parcell of ground at Bethlehem not because there was not anie would buy it but because she was first to profer it to her kindred Ruth 4. 3. If Naomi might not sell her owne to none but such as were of her alliance much more wee ought not to giue away our owne from our children and kinsmen Phil. Indeed as touching inheritance I hold with you yet all be not inheritors by discent but manie doo purchase by the pennie and gather their goods by their paines therefore what reason is there a man should not dispose of that at his owne pleasure Tych. You say verie wel but as there is no cause to constraine anie to giue against his will so there is no conscience to abridge one of that benefite he should enioy by right A man shall doo verie wel to giue seueral portions as he seeth cause yet he ought to respect the superioritie of his eldest son that he make him not equall with his brethren but as he is better by prioritie of birth so to prefer him by sufficiencie of liuing which as it is most charitable by the course of nature so it is best tollerable with the course of scripture for it is written in the behalfe of the first borne Thou shalt giue him double portiō of all that thou hast Deu 21. 17. meaning as much as to two of the others Iehoshaphat King of Iuda had manie children to whome the text saith hee gaue great giftes of siluer and of golde and of precious things with strong Cities in Iuda but the greatest thing of all which was his kingdome he gaue