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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	aaron_n	anoint_v	head_n	26	3	6.1109	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00554	Counsel to the husband: to the wife instruction A short and pithy treatise of seuerall and ioynt duties, belonging vnto man and wife, as counsels to the one, and instructions to the other; for their more perfect happinesse in this present life, and their eternall glorie in the life to come.	Ste. B.	1608 (1608)	STC 1069; ESTC S118841	33,892	104

profession is in practise Which power standeth not in knowledge alone but in speciall and daily practise with obedience to the trueth And much more easie will it be for such as doe not know the will of God and therefore doe not obey his will then for such as know and doe it not many stripes belong vnto them as our Sauiour saith Whereunto I meane not but to point with my finger as it were that you may bee armed to resist such spirituall cowardlines in the profession of Iesus Christ his trueth if for your godly life Spirituall cowardlines and religious gouernmēt you shal beare reproch reioyce and bee glad thereof and lay it vpon your shoulder as Iob did Matth. 5.11.12 Iob. 31.35.36 or would haue done his aduersaries booke and it shall become your crowne of glorie in the day of your account To proceede therefore and yet briefly withal to go thorow the summe of this my slender purpose this is but yet the foundation of present and future happines There must bee f●rther building in the work and gouernment of a familie Simile For as the sweetnes of musicke consisteth in the orderlie concent and tuning of the strings without which bee hee neuer so skilfull that plaieth the instrument neuer so good the strings neuer so true there will bee no sound of musicke euen so if the stringes and members of a familie be set in tune euery string in his due and proper place euery string in his place keeping his note and height Psalm 133. then as Dauid saith is there that comelines goodnes and well agreement which he resembled to Hermons pleasant and pretious dewes Vers 2.3 with that most sweet and sacred sauour which from the Priestly anointing of Aaron did arise and smell To this naturally we are not by birth apte no more then the strings of an instrument will of their owne nature without art or skill fall into tune Nay by nature wee are peruer●ers of all good order and mean●● of good concent Would subiects be vnder one head or gouernment if feare or grace did not compell them hath not nature shewed her rebellion in children against their parents Let onelie Absolons storie bee remembred 2. Sam. 15. Hath not families bin subuerted troubled and disordered by husbands ruling wickedlie or the wiues rebelling disobedientlie Gen. 4.23 Let Lamech be an instance for the husbands fault Gen. 3. and Euah for the wife Whereupon most iustly they were put vnder tribute and must not be permitted to vsurpe authoritie 1. Tim. 2 22. I neede insiste in no other degrees and societies as I might between the Pastor and his flocke between whom and them whiles the people are as they that reforme the Priest as Hoseas saith Hos 4.4 and will not follow him instructing and ruling them from the Lord how can there be harmonie without confusion to the people to be lulled in their sinnes It is sufficient that wee haue examples for my present purpose If therefore it bee not from nature but from grace and as before was declared Gods word do contain instruction for al degrees and societies of men who can bee exempted or dispenced with to neglect that rule that desireth a quiet and godly life or would be held guiltlesse of contrarie cause A familie like to a common-wealth A familie may bee compared vnto a commonwealth wherein there are diuers societies and degrees reciprocally relating and mutually depending one vpon another The highest degree or societie is between the husband and the wife Simile and this is as the first wheele of a clocke that turneth about all the rest in order The next societie is betweene the Parents and the children The third betweene the seruants one with another and towards all other superiors in the familie Three societies of a familie Into these three societies may a familie bee disposed As touching the first and principall societie wherein also principally I purpose to insiste which is betweene your selfe and your louing Hinde or Roe whom many a time I haue blessed and shall blesse by Gods grace vnto your vse and comfort giue me leaue as one that can speake by the surest learning to powre forth my minde mutually to you both who can tell you that the Canker vnto happines and danger of confusion to a familie is the contention and disagreement of man and wife You will say The meanes to auoide contention in a familie easie how may this be auoided I answere verie easilie if in time true regard be had vnto mutual duty without which there can be no comfort nor that blessing of happines which before we spake of Nay which is more to haue the blessing of God which is the foundation and cause of all happines Gods ordinance must bee preferred before vnmeete conditions of peace It standeth not in what man and wife shal conclude vpon that there may be peace quietnes but what order God hath prescribed them to bee obeyed in their places so that they must looke vnto Gods wisedom order polity for oeconomical gouernment and not what may seeme right and good in their owne eies And that Deut. 22.5 if the man may not weare womans apparrell nor the woman mans how much lesse may the one vsurpe the others dignitie or the other to wit the husband resigne or giue ouer his soueraigntie vnto his wife but each must keepe their place their order and heauenly politie wherto God hath called them The husband is made the head The husband the head the wife the bodie 1. Cor. 11.3 and the wife resembled to the bodie May the head of a bodie naturall bee turned downeward can the whole person so continue liue well in that state how vnseemelie is it no more can the bodie politique bee in peaceable or blessed condition if order be inuerted A most monstrous thing it was that the Prophet Esay complained of when he said Isay 3.12 Children are extortioners of my people and women rule ouer them You wil say the Prophet speaketh of another case I know it well yet doth it and very well may it serue VVhich is vvhen men being effeminate are led as vvas Ahab and such like to prouoke the Lord. in any case that is contrarie to Gods word to shew deformitie but in his right case most notoriouslie You will say shall the wife haue no gouernment shall she do nothing but be idle in the familie I answere my wordes yet tend vnto no such thing Then why was she taken for a yokefellow why is her helpe required Gen. 2.18 and she called an helper Nay I will say more a glorious spectacle it may be where the wife hath the whole gouernment But with these cautions that is where the wife manageth houshould affaires prouidently foreseeing carefully disposing and religiouslie gouerning to the honour of her husband Prou. 31.31 Else would not Salomon haue said in