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duty_n	child_n	church_n	parent_n	1,767	5	8.0899	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07711	The common-vvealth of Vtopia containing a learned and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publike weale, as it is found in the government of the new ile called Vtopia. Written by the right Honourable, Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellour of England.; Utopia. English	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; Robinson, Ralph, b. 1521.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 18098; ESTC S112890	95,095	304

it scarcely euer chanceth that the most vertuous among vertuous which in respect only of his vertue is advanced to so high a dignity can fall to vice wickednesse And if it should chance indeed as mans nature is mutable and fraile yet by reason they be so few and promoted to no might nor power but onely to honour it were not to be feared that any great dammage by them should happen ensue to the common-wealth They haue so rare and few Priests least if the honour were communicated to many the dignity of the order which among them now is so highly estetmed should run in contempt Specially because they thinke it hard to find many so good as to be meete for that dignity to the execution and discharge wherof it is not sufficient to be indued with meane vertues Furthermore these Priests be not more esteemed of their owne Countrey men then they be of forreigne and strange Countries Which thing may hereby plainly appeare And I thinke also that this is the cause of it For whiles the armies be fighting together in open field they a little beside not farre off kneele vpon their knees in their hallowed vestments holding vp their hands to heaven praying first of all for peace next for victory of their owne part but to neither part a bloudy victory If their Host get the vpper hand they runne into the maine Battaile and restraine their owne men from slaying and cruelly pursuing their vanquished enemies Which enemies if they doe but see them and speake to them it is enough for the safeguard of their lives And the touching of their cloathes defendeth and saveth all their goods from ravine and spoile This thing hath advanced them to so great worship and true Majesty among all Nations that many times they have as well preserved their owne Citizens from the cruell force of their enemies as they have their enemies from the furious rage of their owne men For it is well knowne that when their owne Army hath recoiled and in despaire turned backe and runne away their enemies fiercely pursuing with slaughter and spoile then the Priests comming betweene have stayed the murder and parted both the hoasts So that peace hath beene made and concluded betweene both parts vpon equall and indifferent conditions For there was never any Nation so fierce so cruell and rude but they had them in such reverence that they counted their bodies hallowed and sanctified and therefore not to be violently and unreverently touched They keepe holy the first and last day of every Moneth and yeare dividing the yeare into Moneths which they measure by the course of the Moone as they doe the yeare by the course of the Sunne The first dayes they call in their language Cinimernes and the last Tapermernes the which words may be interpreted Primifest and Finifest or else in our speech first feast and last feast Their Churches be very gorgious not onely of fine and curious workmanship but also which in the fewnesse of them was necessary very wide and large and able to receiue a great company of people But they be all somewhat darke Howbeit that was not done through ignorance in building but as they say by the counsell of the Priests Because they thought that overmuch light doth disperse mens cogitations whereas in dimme and doubtfull light they be gathered together and more earnestly fixed vpon religion and devotion which because it is not there of one sort among all men and yet all the kinds and fashions of it though they be sundry and manifold agree together in the honor of divine nature as going divers wayes to one end therefore nothing is seene or heard in the Churches but that seemeth to agree indifferently with them all If there be a distinct kind of Sacrifice peculiar to any severall sect that they execute at home in their owne houses The common sacrifices be so ordered that they be no derogation nor prejudice to any of the private sacrifices and religions Therefore no Image of any GOD is seene in the Church to the intent it may be free for every man to conceiue GOD by their religion after what likenesse and similitude they will They call vpon no peculiar name of GOD but onely Mythra In the which word they all agree together in one nature of the divine Majesty whatsoever it be No prayers be vsed such as every man may boldly pronounce without the offending of any Sect. They come therefore to the Church the last day of every Moneth and yeare in the evening yet fasting there to give thankes to GOD for that they have prosperously passed over the yeare or Moneth whereof that holiday is the last day The next day they come to the Church earely in the morning to pray to God that they may have good fortune and successe all the New yeare or Moneth which they doe vse to begin of that same holy day But in the holy dayes that be the last dayes of the Moneths and yeares before they come to the Church the wives fall downe prostrate before their husbands feet at home and the children before the feet of their parents confessing and acknowledging themselves offenders either by some actuall deed or by omission of their duty and desire pardon for their offence Thus if any cloud of priuy displeasure was risen at home by this satisfaction it is over-blowne that they may be present at the Sacrifices with pure and charitable minds For they be afraid to come there with troubled consciences Therefore if they know themselves to beare any hatred or grudge towards any man they presume not to come to the sacrifices before they have reconciled themselves and purged their consciences for feare of great vengeance and punishment for their offence When they be come thither the men goe into the right side of the Church and the women into the left side There they place themselves in such order that all they which be of the male-kind in every houshold sit before the good man of the house and they of the female kind before the good wife Thus it is fore-seene that all their gestures and behaviours be marked and observed abroad of them by whose authority and discipline they be governed at home This also they diligently see unto that the younger evermore be coupled with his elder least children being joyned together they should passe over the time in childish wantonnesse wherein they ought principally ●o conceive a religious devout feare towards GOD which is the chiefe and almost the only incitation to vertue They kill no living beast in sacrifice nor they thinke not that the mercifull clemencie of GOD doth dwell in bloud and slaughter which hath given life to beasts to the intent they should live They burne frankensence and other sweet savors and light also a great number of waxe candles and tapers not supposing this geere to be any thing availeable to the divine nature as neither the prayers