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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	teach_v	4,178	5	7.2526	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72064	The Christian knight compiled by Sir VVilliam VViseman Knight, for the pvblike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	Wiseman, William, Sir, d. 1643.	1619 (1619)	STC 10926; ESTC S122637	208,326	271

holde that if a child doe dye after vse of reason and neuer raised to God-ward any act of loue either little or much he can hardly be saued And their breeders are infinitely to blame that put them not to it For if nothing on our part do bring vs to heauen but loue and this loue be so cold in a capable creature as neither inward eie of faith can mooue him nor howerly benfites can stirre him to loue the bestower how can such a spirit aspire where God hath to doe They tell vs next we must loue our selues next And in our selfe are two things conteined Our soule and our body Our soule we must esteeme aboue all creatures and we must not aduenture the losse of it for ten thousand soules Our third loue is to our neighbour both body and soule His soule I must loue more then my life and goods especially if I be his pastour and haue charge of him ex officio His life also I mây preferre before my owne out of friendship if not out of charity And so I may loose my life for him or in defence of the weake or innocentbody and this is a great vertue but we are not alwaies bound to it Wee are taught also how to loue our parents wife children which more if it come to be shewne as in case of necessitie There is a loue and care due to seruants that they want no necessaries to masters that wee faile them not in our duty or charge They teach vs to loue our benefactours both bodily and ghostly and which more if it may not be done to both alike There is a iustice and truth in all these And it is not idle to aske and know our duty in all And yet these latter may seeme more curious then necessary but I come to greater matters and more neere to our purpose They shew vs further our duty to the publique and where the common good is to bee preferred before priuate and where it is in our wils to preferre it or not And first for life or member if twenty doe assault mee I may kill them all rather then be killed so it be in my iust defence and not against lawfull authority And yet if a man be so charitable they doe not deny but he may suffer himselfe to bee killed rather then kill Whereof there haue beene noble examples though very few now adaies And therefore men are deceiued when they thinke they are bound to kill rather then be killed It is not so They may kill but they are not bound Yea on the other side if he that assaults mee vniustly bee a publique person as the king or any of his children I am bound to flye him as Dauid did Saul but if he follow me so hard that I must kill or be killed I am bound to loose my life and it lyes not in my choise So of a Bishop or some other eminent person whom the Common-wealth cannot spare if one boate will not holde both I am bound to slippe out and leaue my selfe to God Yea they say further if my life be sought maliciously in France and I flye into England for succour and there is like to be warres for mee or breach of amity betweene Princes although the State may not deliuer mee for that were tradere iustum sanguinem Yet am I bound to render my selfe to my enemies before publique peace should be broken or any league in hazzard for mee Such high regard must be had of publique good that a mans priuate is almost nothing to it And with this we see how the law of nature concurres Hesione was commended for it and so was Curtius the Romane for exposing themselues as they did the one to bee deuoured of a monster the other to be swallowed horse and man in a gashfull pit to stoppe the plague that was then in their citty They teach vs also touching goods and possessions or any worldly thing we haue that tendeth to our being or well being they be all either necessary or superfluous Necessaries a man must not be negligent to prouide And it is lawfull for vs to loue them so farre forth as we cannot bee without them no more then without life And these be in two sorts as either necessaries of life meate drinke warme cloathes which euery one must haue the poorest that is or necessaries of estate that a man was borne to or liueth in As if he be a yeoman thus if a knight or gentleman thus if a nobleman thus and the greater the persons are the more things are necessary which to the inferiour are excesse And all these may haue a proportion in our loues We loue a new hatte or garment a faire gowne or handsome cloake or what else is fitting for vs to weare within our compasse or degree Wee loue a good dish and competent fare proportionable to our meanes And euery man knowes what is meetest for him and best suting to his ability euen that the ciuilest sort of his ranke doth vse with decency and without ostentation or incroaching vpon the rankes aboue him eyther man or woman A great many delight yea too too many in excesse but such loue is naught and vicious The backe and belly haue made much worke for Parliaments and Lawyers euery where It is an old fault and the Lacedemonians so preuailed against it both for diet and wearing that the subiect neuer exceeded The Romanes likewise had many lawes about expences called sumptuarie as the Aemilian and Licinian lawes what they should spend ordinarily and what vpon Calends and festiuall dayes By the lawes fannia and didia principall men were bound to spend but so much in meate and no more besides hearbes bread and wine and that must be of the same country and no other To say nothing of the Anthian lawe that was made to barre suppers and other lawes without number which their outrage of excesse gaue occasion of There was also the law Oppia for apparrell especially for women that they might not exceede in their settings out nor be carried in litters Yet Solon would not haue them walke the streetes in solemnitie out of coach neither might they weare in their eare aboue seauenty graines Their excesse ye must thinke was very strange and monstrous that caused these lawes and there be many statutes in our daies for wearing but no reformation I know no good comes of them saue that they argue vs of our pride and giue vs a learning what is fitte for euery one to weare Other fruite I see none of them neither force I much I speake onely of the law that should be within vs the law of a good conscience which is to know and doe and to cutte off excesse in all It shewes a weakenesse of minde and poorenesse of soule that powres it selfe out so excessiuely vpon outward vanities and pride For what is it els they would be great and are not great they would bee Queenes and are not Queenes yet

to the King Church Poore and other necessaries to furnish and better our stocke there will be but little left for much idle expence Neither am I forgetfull of children or of bestowing them when they come to age which is also a necessary duty and worth our care Some exceede in it and some come short To giue great portions with one daughter little with the rest is not as it should be Some there be that straine themselues ouer farre to match them ouer high I am no Solon But out of the soueraignety that a man hath ouer his children it were good he made two lawes to himselfe and if they were binding it were all the better One is neuer to giue aboue a yeares reuenue with any daughter and this were enough to marry them honestly if not honourably It is a sufficient proportion if pride be not but where pride is a great deale more is too little I would not haue them so strict as Solon Plut. vit or Lycurgus who allow no portion at all for women more then their cloathes and some other necessaries The other law should be for sonnes neuer to pay the sonnes debt that were riotously spent hauing meanes sufficient allowed him and such as he did accept Or else the lawe of Claudius were good among vs Tacit. li. 11 Suet. and the like was made by Vespatian to auoide all bonds especially of interest which any should make or enter into who were at their fathers finding or liuing in house with him This would be a great preseruation of houses and a stoppe to young men for running riot nor would there be such cheating vpon them as there is vpon presumption of payment Good nature is against this as it may seeme but lesse good nature to ruinate ones house with vnlooked for leakage Some prodigall child will be against me also Luc. 15. But we reade not in Scripture that hee spent any more but his owne his father paid no debts for him Increase of our estate is many wayes and euery way vicious if we looke not into it narrowly and be not somewhat furnished with good counsell and conscience For auoiding of which danger it is good for a man to informe himselfe of truth and iustice in euery businesse and he that flatters himselfe heerein thrusts a sword in himselfe and sets on fire his owne house though hee liue not to see it They that grow rich on a sudden shall want blessing in the ending Prou. 20. And it is very suspicious that they come not rightly to it vnlesse it be by merchandise or offices Land and mony can seldome doe it suddenly without wrong and iniustice It were wisedome neuer to purchase without store of Superfluum It were charity to lend first if the man be poore before we buy his land of him But we haue no precept for any of these A man is bound to neither and therefore I leaue it Yet charity and iustice exact of vs that we defraud no man of his full price in the purchase Hee is driuen to fell and when he hath solde hee neuer comes to it againe God forbid we should beguile him of aught or make vse of him so farre that instead of lending him we should worke vpon his neede The learned make three prices of euery thing which they vse to call summum medium and infimum The highest lowest and middle price each price exceeding other by one at the least for land as if twenty be the most eighteene the least the middle price must bee nineteene yeares purchase Heere they tell vs wee are bound to giue him eighteene for his land and no lesse and the other may take twenty and no more I speake after the ordinary course of things For times and circumstances may be vpon occasion of warres scarcity of mony or fewnesse of buyers and the contrary of these make it deare Ordinarily there bee two notable faults in buying and selling The one is in the buyer the other is in the seller and both proceede of griping and couetousnes and men must looke to answer for it in an other world howsoeuer they doe vaunt themselues of their fortune heere I speake of no darke matters but what euery one may know and shall haue no excuse for when God shal one day charge thē with blood-sucking one of another We are bidden to doe what we will be done to Mat. 7. that is to say wee must nôt doe as wee will not bee done to The law of nature teacheth vs how abiect and base it is and I may say vnchristian-like to lye vpon aduantage as we doe one of another Cap. 27. There is a saying in Ecclesiasticus Qui quaerit locupletari angustabitur peccatis Hee that striues to be rich shall be pinched with sinnes And he compares the buyer and seller to a poast in a stone wall that cannot stirre for the stones that sticke so close round about it euen so saith he stands Couetousnesse betweene buying and selling that can hardly stirre any way for sinning and pinching our brother I pray thinke of it seriously it is no idle thing I tell you of The fault of the buyer is to giue but the one halfe for it or three parts of foure at the most Heere is a whole quarter purloyned from the owner Hee denies not the profite of it hee mislikes not the tenour or assurance or honesty of the seller But his reason is I haue bought for twelue I neuer gaue more then fourteene A bad reason I haue done naughtily therefore I will not amend I haue holpen to vndoe some therefore I will vndoe more But if hee wisht his sonne would sell so he would not leaue him a foote An other reason He was as willing to take my mony as I to giue it True And so it is with him that giues forty in the hundred A third reason Land may fall to a low rate but when All the mynes are discouered and set on broach to the world people increasing neuer more and land they must haue of them that haue it No warres likely peace round about vs. And if they should sell againe what they buy so good cheape these would be no reasons They will not sell for eighteen that they bought for thirteene But the true reason is the sweet they haue by vnlawfull gaine Ten in the hundred at the least most cōmonly interest vpon in terest now grown so cōmon tirannising almost euery where without controle that who is there almost that hath mony and will buy land where he shall not see his mony again in eighteene or twenty yeares as hee must not if hee doe iustly Where contrary the vsurer dubbles his hundred in seauen yeares all saue fiue pound two shillings seauen pence And in twenty yeares he sees it fiue or sixe times double His hundred is made sixe hundred fourteene shillings eleauen pence His thousand comes to sixe thousand seuen hundred twenty seuen pound