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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	41,079	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14831	The entrie to Christianitie, or, An admonition to householders very necessary for instruction of their families, as also others, whereby, with some some small labour, they may attaine to the vnderstanding of the Christian faith: (if holy, and Christian exercises, as prayers, and such sanctified meanes) be devoutly vsed. Drawne out of the sacred Scriptures, as also prooued by the iudgement of famous learned writers. Very fit for this diseased and sickly age, where-in popish ignorance and deuilish atheisme dooth so abound. By Thomas Wats, minister of the word of God.; Entrie to Christianitie.	Watts, Thomas, fl. 1571-1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 25128; ESTC S106295	8,423	24

THE Entrie to Christianitie or An admonition to Housholders very necessary for instruction of their Families as also others whereby with some small labour they may attaine to the vnderstanding of the Christian faith if holy and Christian exercises as prayers and such sanctified meanes be devoutly vsed Drawne out of the sacred Scriptures as also prooued by the iudgement of famous learned writers Very fit for this diseased and sickly age where-in popish ignorance and deuilish Atheisme dooth so abound By Thomas Wats Minister of the word of God Printed at London by T. O. for Thomas Woodcocke dwelling at the Signe of the blacke Beare 1589. THE ENTRIE to Christianitie That it behoueth Parents to bring vp their Children in the knowledge of Gods Word Authoritie of the Scriptures Gen. 18 19. Exod. 12.26 27 13 8 14. Deut 4 9 10.6 6 7 20. to the ende 11 18.19 32 46. Iosh 4 21 22 23 24. 1. King 2 1 3. Psalm 78 3 4 5.6 Esd 38 29. Eph. 6 4. 2. Tim. 1 5. 2. Ioh. 4. Iudgement of the Learned Question DO you not coumpt those fathers to haue discharged their whole dutie which do teach their children to saye the tenne Commaundements the Lords Prayer and the Articles of the faith and say they haue done what they can Aunswer It is most sure they haue to render accoumpt vnto God for a far greater matter then the teaching them to speake these things for they are to see that they vnderstand them they are to instruct them in all poynts of true Religion they are to shew them the steps of godlinesse they are to exhort them with al diligence yea and to charge them to feare God and to walke in his waies Question All men are not able to doo this you speake of Aunswer The more shame for them that they will be fathers before they can do that which is the duety of fathers and the more heauie iudgement tarieth for them for casting away and spilling the soules of their children Maister Gyff Catechisme We all be carefull and very circumspect in prouiding for the cattell that are bred at our house and we are much busied and take great paines about them and the like diligence we vse also in looking vnto young trees and plants but our children are much more of valewe then all cattell and they are the tender plants of the Paradise of God it cannot therefore with words be spoken how greatly the wicked and cruell negligence of those parents is to be detested which so much neglect and so little set by these most worthie creatures on the earth and these goodlie plants of the Church and heauenly Paradise that they are mooued with no care of their good education Let Parents therfore meditate this saying Math. 18 10. See that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say vnto you that in heauen their Angels alwaies behold the face of my father which is in heauen But a great sort thinke them-selues well excused if they can pretend either their owne ignorance or other businesses But such excuse is rather to be lamented then admitted If Parents be so ignorant that they can neither teach their children the sincere doctrine of the Catechisme nor yet be able to discerne between vertues and vices things that bee honest and vnhonest seemely and vnseemely surely such excuse is a most grieuous accusation of them-selues And touching businesses the thing that is pretended is not only foolish sottish and odious but also vngodlie wicked and blasphemous For as in all the substance of the house no treasure is more worthie then be the children so among all businesses this ought to bee the chiefest that the children bee rightly cared for and well looked vnto Paul Eitz Ethic. Doctr. lib. 3. cap. 4. Now a word or two of the bringing vp of children and preparing them to confirmation Wherin I would God the ould order were duely obserued that they were instructed perfectly to knowe Religion and their duetie to God and might bee brought before the congregation and make an open profession of their faith with promise that neither tribulation nor anguish nor persecution nor famine nor nakednesse nor fire nor sword nor life nor death shall euer make them deny their faith Hereof might much be spoken but I will be short The whole standeth in knowledge and in the feare of God that they may know God and walke before him in reuerence and in feare and serue him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of their life The Iewes are a miserable people they liue in error they die in their owne bloud yet haue they so much vnderstanding that they bring vp their children in the knowledge of God and that knowledge they teach out of the word of God They remember what charge God gaue them Thou shalt teach them thy sonnes and thy sonnes sonnes c. Let vs looke vpon our children as vpon the great blessings of God They are the Lords vessells ordained to honour let vs keepe them cleane they are Christs lambes and sheepe of his flocke let vs leade them foorth into wholesome Pasture They are the seed-plot of heauen let vs water them that God may giue the increase their Angels behold the face of God let vs not offend them they are the temples and tabernacles of the holie Ghost Let vs not suffer the foule spirit to possesse them and dwell in them God saith Your children are my children They are the sonnes of God They are borne a new and are well shapen in beautifull proportion make them not monsters Hee is a monster whosoeuer knoweth not God By you they are borne into the world be carefull also that by your meanes they may be begotten vnto God you are carefull to traine them in mixture comly behauiour of the bodie seeke also to fashion their minds vnto Godlinesse you haue brought them to the fountaine of Baptisme to receiue the marke of Christ bring them vp in knowledge and watch ouer them that they be not lost That mā of God Bishop Iewel in a treatise of the Sacraments Euery housholder is here appoynted a Bishop of his house And a little after Housholders therfore must be carefull that they haue the knowledge of matters diuine otherwise how shall they instruct them that are of their houshold Paule suffereth not women to teach in the Church but commaundeth them to learne of their husbands at home what husband shall teach his wife himselfe being vnlearned and ignorant in the sixt of Deutronomie it is well set downe Therefore first And these words which I commaund thee shall be in thine heart And then immediatly after it is added And thou shalt teach them to thy sonnes And this thing is engraft almost in all men and specially in the ignorant to hold fast and highlye esteeme the things that they haue learned of their Parents And therfore it mattereth much what is taught by Parents to their posteritie Now-adaies wee heare this thing common