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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	duty_n	husband_n	wife_n	4,141	5	7.2280	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66766	A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord's Prayer / written by George Wither ...	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3177; ESTC R11576	41,427	136

Law But let them know for Truth though not for news That all the Feasts and Sabbaths of the Jews Were but the Types of ours and that if they Shall for the Shades the Substance cast away They are unwise and guilty of offence Against this Precept in the moral sense Let those who for the bodies ease and pleasure Part of this time allow preserve the measure That 's justly due and in due manner too Do that which is allowable to do Not for the Soul 's well being caring less Than to prevent the Bodies weariness Let them who of the Soul most heedful seem Remember still the Body to esteem A Portion of that Manhood for whose sake Our Sabbath-maker did all Sabbaths make And give it so much liberty as may Make pleasant all the Duties of the day And since no private Spirit can impose A Rule for all let all be rul'd by those Who by a publick Spirit come to learn What may a publick body best concern Or if among us any one shall deem There is a truer way made known to him So let him walk that he himself approve To be in all his waies a Child of Love For sure I am that if the common peace He keep until humility increase True knowledge in him he then plain will see Who best expounds this Law the Church or He. Come Holy Ghost so sanctify my heart That from this Law I never may depart Amen V. Honor thy Father and thy Mother c. He that sought his Fathers death Sonless yielded up his breath He that would his Prince have slain Had his pardon sent in vain For although the King for gave Justice urg'd her due to have That Rebellious Children may Learn this precept to obey And the Subject stand in awe How he Sins against this Law Command V. On them all honours due bestow Who by the Name of Parents go WHat of Rebelling Subjects will become And graceless Children view in Absolom For whose Offence the Earth did as it were Refusal make his Bodies weight to bear And Heav'n rejects it that they might present Him hanging for a dreadful Monument Through Ages all to warn and keep in awe The sleighters and Infringers of this Law This foremost Precept of the second Table Unto the first in this is answerable They both enjoyn and Honour where 't is due Their differences are these which do ensue Here blessing follows there it went before One Parent that concern'd This many more He that shall break this Precept maketh snares Wherein to hang himself at unawares And overthrows as much as in him lies All Common-weals and all Societes Yet some affect it not but loudly cry For times which may erect a Parity And some who dream they keep it are to blame By being ignorant how far the Name Of Parent reacheth which we briefly show That they might better do and better know We from the Parents of our bodies have A natural being and they justly crave To be obey'd in all things but in those Which either may Superior powers oppose Or to some Being hurries us that shall Be worse than to have never been at all Beside these Parents we to many moe A Duty by this Obligation owe. The Fathers of our Country by this Law First claimeth of us Honour Love and Awe And from himself the same Prerogatives To his Inferiour Magistrates derives There is a Fatherhood in those that be Our Elders and our Betters in degree Our Masters also may have warrant here To challenge from us Reverence and Fear And Husbands also may infer from hence Good proof of right to their preheminence And if a witness wanted thereunto My Wife I know would say the same I do And that I give God thanks for as a blessing That is not founnd in every mans possessing Our Ghostly Fathers by whose careful pain We are anew begot and born again Ev'n to a life more excellent than that Whereto our fleshly Fathers us begat Have Honours due no less than those to whom We Sons and Daughters in the Flesh become Yea and our Fathers in some sort they be Who from Thrall Wants and Death hath set us free All these from us an Honour may command According to the place wherein they stand To some of them we do not owe alone That Honour which may outwardly be done Or that unfain'd respect which doth accord With bare Obedience But we must afford All helps whereby we also may prevent The Want the Shame the Harm or Discontent Which may befall them we should meekly bear Their words and blows ev'n when unjust they are We should not pleasure take in any thought With which dishonour may to them be brought Though they should curse us we must always bless Defend their lives and hide their nakedness We should not hear them wrong'd nor should our tongue To all men tell it when they do us wrong But pray and strive that blameless we might prove How crookedly so ' ere they please to move For he alone who thus obey them shall Hath an Obedience Evangelical Among those many who these Laws do break And pass unheeded any breach to make On this Command who greatly are to blame In being disobedient to the same The first and worst are that ill tutor'd sect Who Magistrates and Rulers contradict They who at all Superiors madly strike And fain would have us honour'd all alike Are deeply guilty and this just command They frustrate make if ought I understand The other sort doth Government forsake Of whom God pleas'd this gracious Law to make Do sometime also grievously transgress Against this Law when they by wilfulness By Pride or Cruelty provoke or stir Those to rebel who Sons or Vassals are For he that wilfully gives cause of ill Shares equal Guilt with him that acts it still By sinning he brings others to be naught Then suffers by them for the Sin he taught For they who Tyrannous Commands do lay Shall find their Servants treacherously obey The Crimes forbidden here as having bin Occasions of a more immediate Sin Against this Law are Envy Self-conceit Licentiousness which thinketh over-streight All tyes of Government Forgetfulness Of those Commodities which we possess By them who Rule us likewise we may add Ingratitude Ill habits sooner had Than lost Gross Rudeness and the Vice Whence most Sins flow insatiate Avarice I now remember that I named not Some other Parents overmuch forgot We have a Heavenly Father unto whom His Children should more dutiful become Than yet they be But what to him we owe The former Table of these Laws doth show We have a Mother too which more our Sin Hath in this Age 'ore much neglected bin Nay worse I would it were untruly said She hath dishonour'd been and disobey'd More like a cruel Step-dame than like her Within whose blessed Womb conceiv'd we were I mean the holy Church the Spouze of Christ For we her wholsome Discipline resist Her comely Ceremonies we