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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	father_n	husband_n	21,731	5	10.2785	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35578	The excellent woman a sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott ... on the 16 of Decemb. 1658 / by Tho. Case ...	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C829; ESTC R36276	61,914	248

she fild all her Relations with wisdom and fidelitie verse before my text Her Children rise up and call her blessed She was a Mother of ten thousand to them Both in respect of A good mother in temporals Their Temporal Estates Their Spiritual Estates As to their Temporals God wrought little less then miraculously by her for their aboundant enlargement Three Sons she had by two several Husbands to whom she hath left faire and liberal Estates as if they had been all Elder Bro●hers though it was not in the power of their dying Fathers hands to do it Hir First-born Sir Howland Roberts of Glassenbury in Kent Her First-born the hopes and honour of his Fathers Family by her wisdome and indefatigable industry she hath quietly invested into the Ancient and Honorable Inheritance of his Noble Ancestors of Glassenbury in Kent in the Possession of that Ancient Name of the Roberts alias Rookhersts ever since the Conquest So makeing ●ood Solomons character the wise woman buildeth her house Pro. 14.1 Her youngest Son Her youngest Son born but to a third part of his Ancestors inheritance and that also not without incumbrances by her incredible prudence she hath lest now Heire Apprent to the whole estate not of a mean consideration Conghurst in Hawkhurst in Kent With the Exemplar in this description of an Execellent woeman v. 16. She considered the field and bought it and with the fruit of her hands she planted the vinyard Her Middle Son Second by her first husband Her middle son born to little or nothing of his progenitors by the favour God gave his gracious mother in the sight of her own Honorable family was adopted into a very worthy portion of a Noble inheritance of the Howlands The elder gracious the younger hopefull For her two daughters who were very pretious in her eyes She hath Secured sortions not beneath their living Fathers honour though far above their dying abilities It is wonderfull in my eyes that she should provide so fully for all her children out of such a narrow and perplexed estate as fell to her managing by her Husbands for certainely the world as it is usually did overvalue her incoms and undervalue her issues I say it is not less then a miracle to any that shall duly consider it that she should have so little comparatively and doe so much both for her one family and for the Houshold of Faith She gave to strangers as if she had forgotten her own Children and so provided for her Children as if she had been a stranger to works of mercy But doubtless God was with her and made good the Mistery of the widows Cruse of Oyle handful of Meale for the paying of her debts preserving of her Family This worthy Gentlewoman was not less a Mother to them in Spirituals then in temporals A good mother in spirituals the neglect whereof is the great sinne of most Parents and the ruine of their Children I b. 39.13.14.15.16 of whom we may say as Job of the Ostrich She leaveth her Eggs in the Earth and warmeth them in the dust and forgetteth that the foor may crush them or that the wild beasts may breake them she is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers her labour is in vaine without feare because God hath deprived her of wisdom neither hath he imparted unto her understanding The most of Parents if they can but Earth their Children enough and warn them in the Dust the Dust-heapes of the world if they can but lade them with thick Clay as Habbakkuk phraseth silver and gold Hab. 2.6 they think they have provided well for them in the mean time th●y consider not that the foot of temptation may crush them or that wilde bruitish lusts may destroy them they remember not that in all this provision heaped up there is nothing done for the immortal soule nothing laid in that may be a fence against temptation or a preservative against sin so much their hearts are hardened against their young ones as though either they were not theirs or as if they had no souls Their labour is in vain all the care and travel for their Children is fruitless laid out only upon emptie vanities which perish in the using and their Children with them forever without intervening grace The Reason followeth The god of this world hath deprived them of saving wisdome and hath shut their eyes against spiritual understanding This precious Handman of the Lord was not so Her great care was to make them good rather then great rich in grace rather then rich in the world Her word was towards them that of the Apostle my little children of whom I travel in birth again or the second time till Christ be formed in you Gal 3.19 I am confident their spiritual birth cost her more throws and sorrows more cries and tears then ever their natural did Her Children were all to my knowledge to her what Aug. was to Monica Children of many tears and prayers which are all upon the file in Heaven and I am humbly confident answers of peace are preparing for them they were all the Children of her vows Oh the care and pains she took for their holy educa ion what perpetual labour did that gracious foule take in Catechising them in the princples of Religion Chatechizing continually dropping in holy instructions How carefull was she that they should sanctifie the Sabbath read the Scriptures repeat Sermons wherein all of them had attained to excellent abilities some by pen the rest even the * youngest by memory Not above nine or ten yeares of age her Methods and Travell herein were incredible Surely in all these respects as it is here said of this Excellent woman verse 28. Her Children rise up and call her blessed They doe and they have cause so to doe and great need they have to look that the Harvest be answerable to the seed lest otherwise their Education rise up in judgement against them in time to come and they have cause to curse themselves instead of blessing her and to wish they had been born of a Turk or an Infidel rather then of so holy a Mother But I hope better things c. Her care of her servants Her servants have not lest cause to bless her then her Children whose Spiritual soule good she tendered as if they had all been the fruit of her owne bowels They shared with her Children in her pious discipline and instruction according to their several capacities she would caution them to prepare for holy Ordinances Holy Ordinances and enquire how it was with them after the Ordinance was finished what they remembred what impressions they found upon their Spirits She would be often conferring wi●h them about their Evidences always calling upon them to get a bottom to work out their salvation with fear and trembling and to redeem the time I had