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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	parent_n	servant_n	5,710	5	6.5909	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09088	The second part of the booke of Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution. Or a Christian directory, guiding all men vnto their saluation. / VVritten by the former author R.P..; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 2.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. First booke of the Christian exercise.	1592 (1592)	STC 19382; ESTC S126315	217,410	610

and whether thou goest If hetherto thou haue wandered and gone astray be sorrie for the tyme lost but passe no further If hetherto thou haue not considered y e weightines of thys affayre serue thy selfe of thys admonition and remember that it is written that a Wiseman profiteth by euery occasion Esteeme thy resolution in thys one poynt the chiefest menage that euer shal passe through thy hands in this world albeit y u wert a Monarche and Ruler of tenne worlds together And finally I will end with the verie same words wherewith the wiseman concludeth hys whole Booke Feare God and obserue his commaundements for this is euery man That is in thys dooth all and euery man consist his end his beginning hys lyfe and cause of beeing that hee feare God and direct hys actions to the obseruaunce of hys commaundements for that without thys he is no man in effect seeing that hee looseth al benefit both of his name nature redemption and creation THAT THE SERVICE WHICH GOD REQVIRETH OF MAN IN THIS present lyfe is Religion With the particuler confirmations of Christian Religion aboue all other in the world CHAP. IIII. HAuing prooued in the former chapters that there is a GOD which created man and that man in respect thereof and of other benefites receiued is boūd to honor and serue the same GOD the question may be made in thys place what seruice this is that God requireth and wherin it dooth consist Whereunto the aunswer is briefe easie that it is Religion which is a vertue that containeth properlie the worshyp seruice that we owe vnto GOD euen as Pietie is a vertue contayning the duety that chyldren doe owe vnto theyr Parents Obseruaunce another vertue that comprehendeth the regard that schollers and seruaunts beare vnto their Maisters In respect of which comparison and likenes betweene these vertues God sayth by a certaine Prophet The sonne honoreth his father and the seruaunt his Maister if then I be a Father where is my honour if I be a Maister where is my feare The acts of Religion are diuers different some internall as deuotion and prayer some other external as adoration worship sacrifice oblations and such lyke that are declarations and protestations of the internall It extendeth it selfe also to styrre vp and put in ●re the acts and operations of other vertues for the seruice of God in which sence saint Iames nameth it Pure vnspotted Religion is to visite Orphans widdowes in their tribulation to keepe our selues vndefiled from the wickednes of this world Finally how soeuer some Heathens doe vse thys worde Religion to some other significations yet as S. Augustine well noteth the vse therof among the faithfull hath alwaies beene to signifie thereby the worship honour and seruice that is due vnto GOD so that if in one word you will haue it declared what GOD requireth of man in thys life it may be rightlie sayd that all standeth in thys that he be religious Heereof it proceedeth that whatsoeuer sort or sect of people in the world professed reuerence honor or worship to GOD or to gods or to anie diuine power essence or nature what-soeuer were they Iewes Heathens Gentiles Christiās Turks Moores Heretiques or other they did alwaies cal theyr said profession by the name of their Religion In which sence also and signification of the worde I am to treate at thys tyme of Christian Religion that is of the substaunce forme maner way reuealed by Christ and hys Apostles vnto vs of performing our duty and true seruice towards God Which seruice is the first poynt necessary to be resolued vpon by hym that seeketh his saluation as in the Chapter y t goeth before hath beene declared And for obtaining this seruice the true knowledge thereof no meane vppon earth is left vnto man but only the light and instruction of Christian Religion according to the protestation of S. Peter vnto the Gouernours of the Iewes whē he sayd There is no other name vnder heauen giuen vnto men whereby to be saued but onely this of Christ and of his Religion If you obiect against me that in former tymes before Christes natiuitie as vnder the law of Moises for two thousand yeeres together there vvere many Saints● who without Christian Religion serued God vprightly as the Prophets other holy people and before them againe in the law of Nature when neyther Iewish nor Christian Religion was yet heard of for more thē two thousand yeeres there wanted not dyuers that pleased God serued him truely as Enoch Noe Iob Abraham Iacob and others I aunswer that albeit these men especially the former that liued vnder the Law of nature had not so particuler expresse knowledge of Christ of his misteries as we haue now for thys was reserued to the time of grace as S. Paul in diuers places at large declareth that is albeit they knewe not expresly how and in what maner Christ should be borne whether of a Virgine or no or in what particuler sort he should liue die what Sacraments he should leaue what way of publishing his Gospell he shold appoint the like wherof notwithstanding very many particulers were reuealed to the Iewes from time to time and the neerer they drewe to the tyme of Christes appearaunce the more plaine reuelation was made of these misteries yet I say all and euery one of these holy Saints that lyued from Abraham vntil the comming of Christ had knowledge in generall of Christian Religion and did belieue the same that is they belieued expresly that there shold come a Sauiour and Redeemer of man-kinde to deliuer them from the bondage contracted by the sinne of Adam This was reuealed straight after theyr fall to our first Parents and Progenitors in Paradise to wit that by the Womans seede our redemption should be made In respect wherof it is sayd in the Reuelations that Christ is the Lambe that hath been slaine ●rō the beginning of y e world And Saint Peter in the first generall Counsell holden by the Apostles affirmeth that the old auncient Fathers before Christes natiuitie were saued by the grace of Christ as we are nowe which S. Paul confirmeth in diuers places And finallie the matter is so cleere in this behalfe that the whole schoole of Diuines accordeth that Fayth and Religion of the auncient Fathers before Christes appearaunce was the very same in substaunce that ours is now sauing onely that it was more generall obscure and confuse then ours is for that it was of things to come as ours is now of things past present For example they belieued that a Redeemer should come and we belieue that hee is already come They sayd Virgo concipiet a Virgine shall conceiue and we say Virgo concepit a Virgine hath conceiued They had sacrifices and ceremonies y t prefigured his