Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	parent_n	person_n	2,074	5	5.3963	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01530	Maskil le-David = Dauids instructer A sermon preached at the visitation of the Free-Schole at Tunbridge in Kent, by the wardens of the Worshipfull Companie of Skinners; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1620 (1620)	STC 11655; ESTC S102889	29,949	48

by setting apart and consecrating some part of their meanes to the furtherance and aduancement of religion and learning Hitherto of the Agent the Act followeth and that is Teaching or Instruction I will teach Here is the Scholemasters worke to teach to instruct I will instruct thee and teach thee saith our Psalmist els-where And when I was young and tender my Father taught me saith Salomon A worke and dutie of great necessitie For the soule of man is naturally instar tabulae abrasae as a cleane paire of tables that haue nothing at all written in them There is no grace or goodnes learning or art naturally written in it howsoeuer some grounds there are whereby these things may through industry Gods blessing be attained Yea in regard of grace and goodnes it is instar codicis depravati as a booke blurred and blotted or depraued and misprinted that must haue much rased and done out ere it can be well corrected or that written into it that it ought to haue It is instar agri inculti as an vntilled ground wherein weedes of all sorts come vp of themselues naturally but no good thing will grow without mucking manuring without much trauell toyle it is a mother as he said of the Earth sometime to the one it is but a stepdame to the other And first what a great mercy of God then is this to this Land and more specially to this place and many others that vouchsafeth such meanes and stirreth vp the hearts and mindes of worthy men to establish such courses whereby instruction and learning may be conveighed to vs and our Children may be wrought into vs and them that we may not be like sauage people no better then brute beasts yea in some regard worse since It is worse as that Auncient Father well saith to be like vnto a beast then to be a beast indeede O learne if you be wise to know your owne happines before many others to acknowledge Gods goodnes to you aboue many others and to shew your selues thankfull both to Him and to Those that he vseth as Instruments to prouide such things for you Againe let this admonish Teachers of their Dutie and encite them vnto the diligent performance of it as they beare the name so to execute the Office as they receiue the wages so to doe the worke as they haue vndertaken the charge of it so to vndergo the burden of it and discharge faithfully the trust of so great a weight that the Parents of their Children haue entrusted them withall euen the soules of those their Children not their bodies onely as deare to them as themselues Otherwise if they shall beare the name of Teachers and not execute the Office they shall be but Idols or as the Prophet saith Idol-shepherds so Idol-Teachers like Idols that haue the name but not the nature of God that haue limmes and lineaments of a man but no action nor life that haue mouths but speake not hands but feele not feet but stir not c. If they take the wages and do not the worke they shall be no better then Theeues As he said sometime in Socrates that the Monck that laboured not with his hands for his liuing was a Theife so the Scholemaster that laboureth not with his tongue in instructing his Schollers yea though he labour with his hands otherwise neuer so much yet if he tend not his Schole and the instruction of those vnder his charge in it he is as very a Theife as he that taketh a purse by the high-way side he might as well pick their Parents purses or pockets Yea if he be wholy carelesse of the discharge of his dutie herein he is litle better then a Murtherer he becommeth guilty of soule-murther as Bernard truly saith of Parents negligent in the education of their Children that they are rather Paricides then Parents For he is a murtherer not onely that knocketh a man on the head or cutteth his throat with a knife or runneth him through with a Rapier but he also that by detention or deniall of due foode starueth him whom he stood bound to feede and releeue and so suffreth him to perish through his default As therefore you are called Teachers and are called to teach so be you carefull to answer your Name to be that that you are termed Apply your selues with all alacritie sedulitie and diligence to this necessarie to this worthy worke Neither let it discourage you if you meete with some foolish and vnthankfull persons or Parents that shall either slenderly consider your trauell or con you litle thanke for your labour It is with you in this case as with Tailors that make garments for Children though the Children pay them not yet their Parents they are sure will Do you your dutie faithfully and constantly and as the Prophet said of himselfe Your worke shall be with God and your wages with him He will regard and reward you whither men do or no. For Euery man shall receiue his wages from him according to his worke Nor againe let it dishearten you if you meet with some vntoward ones whom notwithstanding all your paines and toyle you can do no good vpon It is the care not the cure of them that is required of you Do your best endeuour and let the euent be what it will you shall haue from God whose worke you do when you do conscionably what you do according to your paines not according to the issue or euent of it But who are they that King Dauid vndertaketh to teach And so passe we on from the Act to the Obiect the third particular in his promise the persons taught You. They are the Children that before he called vpon and invited vnto him Children are to be taught Teach a Childe saith Salomon And When I was a Childe my Father taught me And I write to you Children saith the Apostle Iohn among others And that not without good cause For 1. We are then aptest to learne The foale is easier broken and brought to a pace that is taken while it is yet young then that is let alone till it haue more yeeres The plant is easily bowed and bent any way while it is but a twig that will sooner breake then bend when it is growne a strong tree 2. What we then learne sticketh best by vs. Any vessell will retaine long the sauour of that liquor that it was seasoned first withall And the cloth best keepeth its color that was died in the wooll that it tooke in ere it came to the wheele or the woofe Teach a childe saith Salomon in the trade of his way and he will not depart from it when he is olde 3. We haue much to go through with and but litle time to learne a long taske and a short time Though we