Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	only_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	22	3	8.3052	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10304	The house-holders helpe, for domesticall discipline: or A familiar conference of household instruction and correction fit for the godly gouernment of Christian families. Dedicated to all religious house-holders by R.R. minister of Gods Word.	R. R., minister of Gods Word.	1615 (1615)	STC 20586; ESTC S106118	19,047	58

lye sweare murmure curse mocke raile c. then presently thereupon examine and shew them by the book what Commandement they breake and when any duty to God or men is omitted examine and shew them by the book what precept they offend against teaching thē to expresse the sense in other words that you may know they vnderstand the meaning and teaching them not onely by the booke but also by liuely voyce and spéech Thus to teach them I say vpon occasion the vse and experience of that they haue learned will as I haue by tryall perceiued both helpe their capacitie confirme their memorie and worke vpon their affections the more effectually SONNE AFter this course of catechizing continued daily in the Weeke dayes what other order of instruction would you wish chiefely to be continued vpon the Sabbath day FATHER I Would wish you alwaies vpon the Lords day d Conference concerning Sabbath dayes instruction to be vsed thē in each reformed family to examine all your Family in those things which are euery day taught them on the Sabbath by your Minister who is a godly learned and a zealous Preacher and examine them so that you may know how euery one doth marke and remember what things were taught and how they were confirmed and applied e The carelesnes of common Christians of luke-warm Laodiceans and Protestāts at large which abound in this our age and are euen glutted with heauenly Manna Many men are exceeding carelesse herein for where almost is one among many that questioneth with his seruants about Religion at all It may be sometimes saith one that they will send thē to the Church but when they returne what doe they aske them of their learning or profiting there vnlesse perhaps once at the hundreds end hée vouchsafe to know the Chapter and the Verse of the Text which betwixt the Church doore home euen a Parrot would be taught to pronounce Let such send any of their people vpon some worldly businesse and they will be sure to aske his seruant how hee sped and nothing will he leaue vnasked to vnderstand the effect of the arrand hee sent him about but for Gods businesse and Soule matters be they performed negligently or not done at all it mattereth not And almost all men doe now content Note this themselues with a flight examination hence is it that their sonnes and seruants can neither shew the summe and diuision of the Text nor what doctrines were drawne from it much lesse how they were confimed and in the vse applied but onely they bring certaine words and sentences or similitudes not vnderstanding the purpose whereto any thing was spoken by the Preacher I Note this would wish you therefore I say to examine your Children and seruants with such diligent care that you may know how euery one doth marke and remember what things were taught and how euery doctrine was confirmed and applied and where any one faileth let the next that standeth in order by him shew and teach him when all haue brought out their store and shewed their best endeuour to make repetition then you your selfe are also to helpe them therein by a diligent repetition confirming and applying to your whole Familie and to your owne heart and affections Note this all the doctrines that were deliuered which I would wish you to doe with all Godly zeale and feruencie forthwith and immediatly after your comming from Church before you receiue your bodily foode SONNE VVHere that course is continued Obiect men are commonly accounted Puritans and we that haue vsed it haue beene much derided scorned and mocked for it and many men you know in the Countrey doe call it and terme it a priuate Preaching and do not cease to say that therein wee shew our selues to bee more precise then wise what say you of such scorners FATHER FIrst I say that though such estéeme Answere wisedome it selfe to bee but foolishnesse and folly yet are they themselues the onely fooles by Gods account Who scorneth the scorner Pro. 3. 34. and saith that fooles despise wisedome and instruction Pro. 1. 7. Secondly I say therefore that such as would bee wise must not sit in the seate of scorners nor be daunted with such scorning though it bee a persecuting Gal. 4. 24. Heb. 11. 36. Thirdly because such men account this course to be a nouelty and seeme to yeeld much vnto Antiquitie I would wish them to consider well Saint Austens censure who saith That euery Paterfamilias concionator est in domo sua iuxta Augustini sententiam dicentis quod concioator est in suggestu hoc quilibet paterfamilias in domo sua Householder should bee the same in his owne house as the Preacher is in the Pulpit or in Gods house That is that hée should diligently teach and instruct his houshold as Abraham did who commanded his houshold to doe iustice and iudgement Gen. 18. 19. And as the Mother of Lemuel did Pro. 31 2. 3. who by their sedulitie and earnestnesse in teaching did set as it were an edge vpon their doctrine in applying it to the affections of their hearers that it might moue much their minds pierce deepe into their hard and stonie hearts Now the same that they did you and euery Householder is commanded to do Deut. 6. 6. 7. where the Hebrew reading is Thou shalt whet these words on thy Children and agreeable thereto is that Heb. 10. 24. 25. Let vs whet one another as it is in the Greeke pointing at and noting by that metaphor of Whetting our spirituall dulnesse which like blunt tooles haue need to be whetted by dayly teaching and admonishing Heb. 3. 13. SONNE I Perceiue by the former places that such as are Parents and gouernors of Families should not be like Luke-warme Laodiceans whom the Lord Iesus willeth to repent Reuel 3. 14. 19. For none indeed doe truely repent till they be feruent saith one for feruencie or zeale is an effect of true repentance 2. Cor. 7. 11. I perceiue also by the former places that not onely minsters but also all Christians should be zealous according to that general precept Be feruent in Spirit seruing the LORD Rom. 12. 11. And that therefore they should set an edge vpon their admonitions and instructions is not that your meaning sir FATHER YEs assuredly for it is the very life of good doctrine to moue affection much beeing well applyed without which it is but like a plaster kept in a pocket and not applied to the place infected A Similitude SONNE SIth then in teaching it is so needfull to moue affection shew me I pray you some helpes and meanes to make my houshold admonitions and instructions powerfull to worke vpon the affections of my Family FATHER TWo things are needfull in teaching to mooue affection much First feruency Secondly constancy Teach therfore and instruct your Family with feeling and with feruency in particular in reprouing such as are audacious and