Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	breast_n	child_n	milk_n	2,381	5	10.1992	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45497	Teleiosis, or, An exercitation upon confirmation the ancient way of completeing church-members ... : to which are annexed some directions for the putting of it into practice ... / by Jonathan Hanmer ...	Hanmer, Jonathan, 1606-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing H653; ESTC R19567	114,268	234

maternum huic prima fuit Schola Sacrarum literarum his mothers lap was his first School Nec magis inejus sinu quàm Sermone educatus he suckt in not only milk from her brests but also the principles of religion from her mouth And this is that for which the children of the virtuous woman are said to call her Blessed viz. Prov. 31 28 Cartwright Propter educationem virtutem pietatem per educationem procuratam For their education and virtue and piety procured by it This duty then you see is injoyned and belongs unto parents Neither may they think to shift it off from themselves by saying It 's the Ministers Office to do it for it 's theirs also as well as his nor will his doing his part free them from the obligation that lyes upon them 2. Their duty is to require and see to it that those under their charge do diligently frequent and carefully attend upon the publick Ordinances of Catechizing and the preaching of the Word especially upon the Lords day the due sanctification whereof both by themselves and theirs is charged upon them Exod. 10.10 Zanch. in 4 praecept Datur praeceptum hoc imprimis cuique patrifamilias this precept is given in the first place to every father of a family as those that should require the same to be observed by the whole family Again Vult Deus ut patresfamilias authores sint toti familiae duces ut veniant in caetum fidelium c. Ibid. The Lord would have the Governours of families to be procurers and leaders to the whole family to come unto the assembly of the faithful to sanctifie the Holy-day c. Every governour of a family saith he may and ought to compel them of his houshold to the outward worship of God Officium est inquit Bullingerus boni patris-familias curare ut tota familia Sabbathum sanctificet Decad. 2. Ser. 4. It is the duty of a good Governour of a family to take care that the whole family do sanctifie the Sabbath Such persons therefore may not think it sufficient to sanctifie the Lords day and to attend upon the publ ck Ordinances themselves but they are to look well unto those under their charge that the fame be done by them also whose profanation and neglect of the duties thereof may be laid to the charge of those that might and should have prevented it but did not being regardlesse of them Nor should they content themselves with this only that those belonging to them do attend upon the Ordinances but they are also to labour that they do it to good purpose least by the carelesse and customary performance of their duty God be dishonoured and their own souls injured and hazarded no lesse then by the omission of it They ought therefore to call upon them for and require from them an account of the things that they have heard and help them to the fuller understanding of them that so through the blessing of the Lord they may attain the end of what they do and their labour may not be in vain 3. Their duty is to watch and have a vigilent eye over them in respect of their conversation to prevent miscarriages and to quicken them to their duty The care of governours in this particular is of very great consequence without which things will certainly go amiss and many disorders will follow in the family What Solomon saith of a King and other magistrates in the Common-wealth may not unholy be applyed to our purpose every father being in some sort a magistrate as it were in his own family A King that sitteth in the Throne of Judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes i.e. Curâ inspectione coercet malos Lavater By their care and inspection they lay a restraint upon those that are evil so that they are not so bad as they would be nor take that liberty to sin that otherwise they would do The neglect hereof seems to be a part of good Elies fault and this in likelyhood imports the cause why the sins of his sons were so great he kept not so strict a hand over them and their actions as he should have done but was too indulgent toward them Those words of his in dealing with and reproving them seem to imply so much Why 1 Sam. 2.23 24. faith he do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings by this people nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear ye make the Lords people to transgress So here the good man knows little but by hear-say and what the common rumour and complaint of the people brings to his ears Sic dicunt inquit sic ad me perfetur q. d. Si vera sirt quae audio gravitur peccatis P. Martyr in l. So they say this is brought to me if the things be true which I hear ye sin grievously The contrary carriage is commended in Solomons virtuous woman Pro. 3.27 Carswright she looketh well to the wayes of her houshold Lustrat mores universae familiae diligens haec inspectio non solù nec praecipuè opera domesticae respicit verum etiam quomodo se in cultu Divino gerunt quales in pi●tate progressus faciant diligenter observat This diligent inspection respects not only nor chiefly the houshold-imployments but she also diligently observes how they behave themselves in the worship of God and what progresse they make in piety Lavater Considerat quibus moribus singuli sint praediti quid dicant quid faciant ne turpe quid committant She considers what the manners of each one are what they say what they do that no unseemly thing be committed by them Thus though eye-service be not good yet is there need and accordingly ought there to be a watchful eye over them that children and servants be not evil 4. This Inspection ought to be accompanied with the discreet exercise of Discipline without which what we see to be amiss may be far enough from being amended Haec duo quasi elements sunt virtutis Spes honoris metus poenae quorum illa incitstiores reddit ad pulcherrima studia haec segniores ad vitia Plutarch de lib. educand Such as need reproof and correction must have it and those that deserve countenance and encouragement should not want it the evil are to be timely checkt and curbed and the good cherished and commended And these two being rightly managed will by the blessing of the Lord be found to be notable means to restrain vice and promote virtue Fond affection may prompt parents to with-hold but true love will bid them to make use of the rod when there is cause for nothing more endangers the disobedient then indulgence Hence the Scriptures do so much urge the use of discipline thus speaking He that spareth the rod hateth his son Prov. 13.26 but he that loveth him chastneth him betimes Because there is folly bound