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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	life_n	parent_n	2,898	5	8.3572	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62878	Væ scandalizantium, or, A treatise of scandalizing wherein the necessity, nature, sorts, and evills of scandalizing, are handled, with resolution of many questions thereto pertaining / preached at Lemster, in Herefordshire by Iohn Tombes ...	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1641 (1641)	Wing T1827; ESTC R21407	96,654	466

it shewes in them a wicked disposition that loves and delights in evill Yet because it is out of some ignorance though it bee such as is pravae dispositionis of an evill disposition it is therefore lesse voluntary then the former and thereby lesse evill and lesse obnoxious to woe 3. some doe scandalize others by faire words out of misguided love to the persons they scandalize so that the motive hereof is an affection of love compounded with ignorance and imprudence Thus Peter advised Christ to decline his sufferings out of love as he thought but ignorantly and therefore our Saviour rejected his counsell as savouring of a meere carnall and humane affection Mat. 16. 23. telling him that hee was a scandall to him In this manner many carnall parents have disswaded their children from Martyrdome from zeale and forwardnesse in Religion least they should bee lost as they thinke become melancholy unfashionable misse their preferment be mocked by men of the world c. wherein they thinke they shew much love to thē but do indeed scandalize or harme their soules as Peter did Christ. But the woe due to this is lesse then the former because it is lesse voluntary as being not out of a love to the evill but to the persons they perswade through simple ignorance of the evill to which they perswade Thirdly difference is to be made of scandalizeing in this kind according to the matter or thing wherein they scandalize them For sometimes men doe lay a stumbling block by seducing men from the truth in credendis in matters of faith As those of whom S. Peter speakes 2. Pet. 2. 1. that brought in damnable heresies or heresies of perdition and those of whom S. Paul speaks that sought to deprive Christians of their liberty in Christ that they might bring them into bondage Gal. 2. 4. those that corrupted mens minds from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2. Cor. 11. 3. Some doe scandalize others in agendis in matters of practise whether pertaining to Religion or to civill conversation As Balaam that corrupted the Israelites in both and all others that draw men to superstition intemperance and the like sinnes Now the former are caeteris paribus other things being alike the worse sort of scandalizers for as much as a pernitious errour in matters of faith is more dangerous as more easily spreading and infecting the minds then a corrupt practise that hath lesse colour for it and likely more resistance The reasons why a woe belongs to such Scandalizers are 1. Because they are plaine and manifest agents and factors for Satan and his Kingdome Our Lord Christ called Peter Satan when he was a Scandall to him though but out of imprudence Mat. 16. 23. much more justly may the title be fastened on him that scandalizeth out of craft who is ingeniosè nequam wittily wicked For this reason S. Paule styled Elymas the sorcerer a Child of the Divell because he did not cease to pervert the right waies of the Lord Act. 13. 8. For what doe such but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with open face declare themselves for Satan and associate themselves to him in promoting his worke which is the devouring of soules and therefore may expect his pay to whose service they have addicted themselves 2. because they are direct enemies to God S. Paul stiled Elymas an enimy to all righteousnesse Acts 13. 8. And what is an enemy to righteousnesse but an enemy to God Who loveth righteousnesse and hateth iniquity what doe such Scandalizers but apply themselves to seduce men from their subjection to Gods kingdome and as much as in them lies overthrow his dominion Now such as shew enmity against God may justly expect hostility from him against them wrath in requitall of their unrighteousnesse and that in proportionable measure answerable to the measure of their iniquity For application of this truth 1. We may hereby discover the great guilt that lies on them that by this way scandalize others and the great misery that belongs to them Surely there are every where many who at least through imprudence doe scandalize men to their ruine by insinuating practises many carnall parents that relish not the word of life themselves out of prejudice against Godlinesse and holy zeale disswade their Children from diligence in duties of godlinesse prayer reading hearing meditating on Gods word as conceiving that these things will make them silly unfashionable unsociable dejected melancholick opinionative that it will hinder their credit and preferment And therefore divert the current of their minds to the reading of Poems play-bookes amorous writings acquaint them with merry company pregnant wits that they may learne gallantry of behaviour whet their wits erect their spirits But instead of learning these things they learne for the most part the damnable Arts of swearing whoring fighting drinking riot scoffing at religion and the rest of those hellish courses which are in these daies vailed under the name of bravery of spirit and gallantry of carriage And this falls out by Gods just judgement that while parents are enemies to that noble service which their children by their godlinesse and holy zeale might doe for God the soveraigne Lord to that Heroicall fortitude of minde in contemning the world and bearing the extreamest evills for Christs sake which faith produceth that incomparable joy that true liberty which a holy life begetteth that surpassing wisdome and usefull worth that attend the knowledge of God and an upright heart towards him their children should fall into the basest services of their own lusts of Satans will enslave themselves to whores and drinke and such like effaeminating things be filled with meere vanity empty of reall worth and prove a griefe to their parents a burden to their countrey the ruine of their houses and which is yet worst Children of hell And as this is the course of too many ill-advised parents so it is the manner of too many unfaithfull friends and misguided masters who being led by the same spirit endeavour to quench the beginnings of new birth in their friends and servants by their counsells if they perceive in them any sense of sin any degree of humiliation any application of their minds to religion any alienation of their minds from the prophanenes vanity of the world they set their wits on worke how to prevent them conceiving they shall doe them a pleasure when as their Counsells tend to their perdition And thus they doe as they say apes doe to their young ones amplexando strangulant by hugging them they kill them Unhappy men that thinking to doe good destroy those whō they love and procure a woe to their own soules in recompence of their counsells that under the covert of friendship act Satans part and precipitate themselves and their followers into perdition But besides these there are not a few who are zealous for corrupt opinions for superstitious traditions for drunken usages for prophane libertinisme c. 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