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woman_n	blood_n	child_n	womb_n	2,043	5	9.7787	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47625	A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh.	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1654 (1654)	Wing L1008; ESTC R25452	1,648,569	942

doting upon children Parents are apt to exceed in their love to their children and be extreme fond in their affection so Eli Isaac to Esau Iacob to Ioseph and Benjamin David to Absalom and Adonijah Reasons 1. Affection is natural and grows in the heart it self and so grows the bigger and stronger natural affections can hardly be moderated 2. It is ancient it comes into the world with the childe nay begins when the childe is in the wombe 3. It is much nourished for it is the property of all both affections and habits to grow very strong by exercise and to wax mighty by frequent acts But yet this fond affection is evil 1. Because it is an undecent thing for a man to suffer his reason to be blinded by his affection 2. It is dangerous and hurtful 1. To parents in hindering them from doing that which is good for their childrens souls and so causing them to neglect the best and most necessary offices of a parent viz. To watch over them to observe their faults and reprove them and to beat down the corruptions that will be growing in them it indangers the parents to sin against God and honour their children above him and to be too worldly for them 2. To the children they will grow bold on their parents love and so much more carelesse of them The parents common duty to their children in their tender years and childhood is 1. To instruct them in Religion so soon as they are able to speak and have the least use of understanding Prov. 22. 6. Ephes. 6. 4. God hath commanded parents to have a care of the souls of their children Deut. 6. 7. Abraham had so Gen. 8. 19. 2. To give them correction Prov. 23. 13. 29. 27. 13. 20. 22. 15. 3. To blesse them so Abraham did Isaac and Isaac Iacob and he his children The especial duty of the father is to give the name unto the childe of the mother is to nurse up her own childe if God hath given her ability thereunto Gen. 21. 7. 1 Sam. 1. 29. Luke 2. 12. Sarah nursed Isaac Rebecca Iacob Anna Samuel Else the mother will not so ardently love the childe nor the childe the mother for her love increaseth by kissing it often at her breast Her milk which is but white bloud of which the childe consists and with which it was nourished nine moneths in the wombe is more familiar and natural to the childe then that of another woman He resembleth his nurse often in manners mores animi sequuntur temperamentum corporis Plato gives this as a reason why Alcibiades was so stout though he was an Athenian which naturally are fearful because a woman of Sparta a couragious and valiant Nation was his nurse Tacitus writes that the Germanes are among all Nations great and valiant because their own mothers which are of great stature do nourish them A Lamb sucking a Goat or a Kid sucking of an Ewe change their fleece and hair respectively say Naturalists See Dr. Willet on Gen. 21. 7. and Dr. Gonge of Domestical duties on Ephes. 6. 4. Sect. 12. to 16. So much for the duties which parents must perform to their children in their tender years Now those follow which they must perform to them when they grow to riper age 1. To bring them up in some profitable and lawful Calling by which they may live honestly and Christianly so Adam brought up one of his children in Husbandry and the other in keeping Sheep both profitable and lawful Vocations Adam in Paradise is appointed to dresse the Garden See Dr. Gouge's Domestique Duties Ephes. 6. 4. § 31. to 34. A Vocation or Calling is a certain condition or kinde of life ordained and imposed on man by God for the common good 2. To provide for the disposing of them in marriage and that in seasonable and due time 3. To lay up something for their children 2 Cor. 12. 14. Now follows the duties of Servants and Masters First of Servants Servitude came in by sin Conditio servitutis jure intelligitur imposita peccatori nomen istud culpa meruit non natura Aug. de civit Dei l. 19. c. 15. Vide plura ibid. There are two kinds of servants 1. Such as were absolute those that were conquered in war the Conquerour had an absolute power over their lives the Apostle speaks of these Col. 4. 1. and bids give to them that which is equal 2. By compact and agreement such as our servants are now Servants are with care and faithfulnesse as in the presence of God to bestow themselves wholly on the times appointed in their Masters businesse Coloss. 3. 27. 2 3 24. Three things exceedingly commend a servant 1. Diligence 2. Obedience 3. Prudence and Discretion The former two belonging especially to a mans place as an inferiour the third indifferently agreeing to every place I shall handle the two first First A servant must be diligent in his businesse Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse he shall stand before Princes not before men of lower rank Solomon speaks this principally of one in the place of a servant if he be diligent he shall finde good contentment with men of best note 1 Sam. 18. 2. to 6. Such a one was the servant of Abraham which shewed so much care painfulnesse constancy discretion fidelity in that great businesse of choosing his Masters sons wife as nothing could be more Such a one was Iacob to Laban whom he served with all his might Ioseph to Potiphar Reas. 1. Because in so doing they will please God himself who is the Authour of this subordination of men in the family that some should be Masters some servants therefore Paul saith they must do it as to the Lord not to men and saith Of God they shall receive the recompence of inheritance 2. For the quiet sake of the family else he shall become like vinegar to the teeth and smoak to the eyes 3. They must do it for their own sakes because they shall live with most comfort cheer and content themselves as having the good will first of God then of their Governours and the good esteem of all which do know them He that is slothful walks on a thorn hedge and pricks himself A sloathful servant is 1. A thief he steals from his Master wages meat and drink which he receiveth but dischargeth not his work painfully 2. A dissembler an hypocrite if he allow this idlenesse he cannot be a faithful servant to God whom he never saw who is not faithful to his Master whom he sees daily Secondly A servant should be obedient and dutiful doing the things which his Master appoints him as the places before quoted in the Colossians and Ephesians shew Paul wished Timothy to tell the servants that are under the yoak that they must do service to their believing Masters and he willeth Titus to exhort servants to be obedient to their Masters in all