Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	child_n	love_v	parent_n	9,558	5	9.1054	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14577	A pamphlet of the offices, and duties of euerie particular sworne officer, of the citie of Excester: collected by Iohn Vowell alias Hoker, Gentleman & chamberlaine of the same	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.	1584 (1584)	STC 24889; ESTC S119346	28,806	38

A Pamphlet of the Offices and duties of euerie particular sworne Officer of the Citie of Excester Collected by Iohn Vowell alias Hoker Gentleman Chamberlaine of the same Numb 30. VVho so euer sweareth an oth to bind him selfe he shall not breake his promise Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham 1584. Psal. Cxxvij verse 2. Except the Lord keepe the Citie the watchman waketh but in vaine To the Right worshipfull the Maior Bailiffes Recorder Aldermen and all others the sworne officers of the Citie of Excester IT is most truelie written by the ancient father Lactantius Right worshipfull that God made man for two causes the one that he should acknowledge and confesse him to be the true and immortall God and to honour him in all holinesse and righteousnes The other was for mans owne sake that ech one should loue and defend the other For if of one man whome God made all others had their offspring then are all they bretheren and of one and the same blood But for brethren to be diuided and not to loue ech one the other it is most vnnaturall and execrable before God and man And for asmuch as such is the state condition of man that he was neither borne for him selfe alone nor yet can liue by himselfe alone it is most necessarie that he doo endeuour himselfe vnto those endes for which he was made and created That is that he doo first and cheestie serue and honour the eternall God for whose honour he was made in all holinesse and righteousnes then to yeeld vnto man to whose comfort he was borne those offices of humanitie whereby mans societie is conserued which doo stand and consist in this that euerie one doo prosecute another in all beneuolence beneficence gratefulnes and humanitie For who so is not thus affected dooth degenerate from the true nature of man in his first creation is become worse than the brute beast Wherefore in the former ages not onelie the children of God and the professors of his word haue beene carefull herein but the Gentiles also and the nations which knew not God haue beene earnest to maintaine the common societie and to performe one to the other all offices of humanitie For as Cicero saith Nihil magis ad humanae vitae societatem tuendam ad amicitias conciliandas confirmandas adiuuat Nothing doth more nourish loue and preserue common societie than good will performed in the offices of humanitie Who so then is carelesse herein and breaketh the bondes hereof he is as the godly father saith Nefarius parricida omnium pessimus This is so excellent a vertue so much tending to the honor of God so agreable to nature and so most necessarie for man as it had his beginning and was ingraffed in man euen in his first creation so hath it had his effect among good men in all ages and in all well gouerned Cities and common wealths euen among the verie nations whereof to recite manie examples which are to be drawne from the Israelites Persians Assyrians Grecians Romanes and sundrie other nations it were too long and almost an infinite discourse And therefore leauing all them I will come to this realme of England our owne natiue countrie which though it be the remotest Iland in all the Ocean seas taken as it were for a new world of itselfe yet is it not inferiour to anie nation or people whatsoeuer either in true religion towardes God or in dutifulnes to the Prince and Magistrates or in anie action tending to the conseruation of the common societie and the nourishing of good will among men And besides that this land hath these things in common with others yet it hath also certaine particular branches and vsages of beneuolence loue and good will among priuate men peculiar to themselues and which in other countries is not vsed Among manie others I doo note and obserue the old and ancient manner of giuing of new yeares gifts I know the Persians of certaine times did with great reuerence offer presents vnto their kinges And the Parthians would neuer come emptie handed before their Princes And likewise the Romane souldiers would at the beginning of euerie yeare present their Emperours with some one thing or other euen as the noble men of England for euer from time out of minde haue doone and yet vpon new yeares daie doo humblie present to the Kings and Princes of the same some strene or present dutiefullie witnessing a bounden duetie of their part as also the Princes by a like gift returned doo testifie their good will of the other part But the like course of courtesie beneficence and beneuolence to be vsed among the common people and the inferior sort among themselues I take it to be proper and onelie vsed within this Realme of England For besides the yearelie haruest dinners and other like meetings vnto which one neighbour conuiteth an other the tenants also to their landlordes the seruants to their Maisters and one neighbour to an other faile not at new yeeres tide to congratulate a good successe of the yeare past and wish the like of the yeere to come with some present or gift but among none is it more firmely obserued than by the babes or little children named godchildren who at that time make their repaire to their Compatres named godfathers and godmothers before whom they doo humblie kneele downe and by the name of a blessing doo as it were giue thankes bicause they were witnesses to their baptisme and doo craue their helpes for their increase and continuance in that faith which they promised for them And therewith doo present vnto their said godfathers and godmothers some one thing or other in token of their thankfulnes which giftes in the elder ages were for the most part Akornes Nattes and Apples Of this manner and vsage ensued manie and great commodities both common priuate which turned to the benefit of the common wealth to the increase of the societie of man for the Akornes nuttes and the kernels of apples were then vsed to be cast and sowed in the ground whereof in course of time did grow and increase the great abundance of timber and the plentie of fruites which their posteritie could not lacke and the common wealth cold not want further it bred such a loue betweene the godfathers and the children as next vnto the naturall parents could not be a firmer The one alwaies reuerencing and other louing each other The parents also being as it were alied by this kind of courtesie doo call one the other gossop as who saith Gods helpers they louing as brethren each one the other most sincerelie and friendlie And their children and offsprings treading the trace of their parentes are affected one to the other as brethren of one and the same familie These and such other like things when I had considered it came to my minde and remembrance how that I my selfe haue beene sometimes a foster childe to this