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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	father_n	mother_n	parent_n	2,884	5	8.2414	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45190	The contemplations upon the history of the New Testament. The second tome now complete : together with divers treatises reduced to the greater volume / by Jos. Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1661 (1661)	Wing H375; ESTC R27410	712,741	526

at liberty in this Deep the Nets of wholsome Doctrine draw up some to the shore of Grace and Glory How much skill and toile and patience is requisite in this Art Who is sufficient for these things This Sea these Nets the Fishers the Fish the Vessels are all thine O God doe what thou wilt in us and by us Give us ability and grace to take give men will and grace to be taken and take thou glory by that which thou hast given The Marriage in Cana. WAS this then thy first Miracle O Saviour that thou wroughtest in Cana of Galilee And could there be a greater Miracle then this that having been thirty years upon earth thou didst no miracle till now that thy Divinity did hide it self thus long in flesh that so long thou wouldst lie obscure in a corner of Galilee unknown to that world thou camest to redeem that so long thou wouldst strain the patient expectation of those who ever since thy Star waited upon the revelation of a Messias We silly wretches if we have but a dram of vertue are ready to set it out to the best shew thou who receivedst not the Spirit by measure wouldst content thy self with a willing obscurity and concealedst that power that made the world in the roof of an humane breast in a cottage of Nazareth O Saviour none of thy miracles is more worthy of astonishment then thy not doing of miracles What thou didst in private thy wisdome thought fit for secrecy but if thy Blessed Mother had not been acquainted with some domestical wonders she had not now expected a miracle abroad The Stars are not seen by day the Sun it self is not seen by night As it is no small art to hide Art so is it no small glory to conceal glory Thy first publick Miracle graceth a Marriage It is an ancient and laudable institution that the rites of Matrimony should not want a solemn celebration When are Feasts in season if not at the recovery of our lost rib if not at this main change of our estate wherein the joy of obtaining meets with the hope of further comforts The Son of the Virgin and the Mother of that Son are both at a wedding It was in all likelihood some of their kindred to whose nuptial feast they were invited so far yet was it more the honour of the Act then of the Person that Christ intended He that made the first Marriage in Paradise bestows his first Miracle upon a Galilean marriage He that was the Author of Matrimony and sanctified it doth by his holy presence honour the resemblance of his eternal union with his Church How boldly may we spit in the faces of all the impure Adversaries of wedlock when the Son of God pleases to honour it The glorious Bridegroom of the Church knew well how ready men would be to place shame even in the most lawful conjunctions and therefore his first work shall be to countenance his own Ordinance Happy is that Wedding where Christ is a guest O Saviour those that marry in thee cannot marry without thee There is no holy Marriage whereat thou art not however invisible yet truly present by thy Spirit by thy gracious benediction Thou makest marriages in Heaven thou blessest them from Heaven O thou that hast betrothed us to thy self in Truth Righteousness do thou consummate that happy Marriage of ours in the highest Heavens It was no rich or sumptuous Bridal to which Christ with his Mother Disciples vouchsafed to come from the further parts of Galilee I find him not at the magnificent Feasts or triumphs of the Great The proud pomp of the World did not agree with the state of a servant This poor needy Bridegroom wants drink for his guests The Blessed Virgin though a stranger to the house out of a charitable compassion and a friendly desire to maintain the decencie of an hospital entertainment inquires into the wants of her Host pities them bemoans them where there was power of redresse When the wine failed the mother of Jesus said unto him They have no wine How well doth it beseem the eyes of piety and Christian love to look into the necessities of others She that conceived the God of mercies both in her heart and in her womb doth not fix her eyes upon her own teacher but searcheth into the penurie of a poor Israelite and feels those wants whereof he complains not They are made for themselves whose thoughts are only taken up with their own store or indigence There was wine enough for a meal though not for a Feast and if there were not wine enough there was enough water yet the Holy Virgin complains of the want of wine and is troubled with the very lack of superfluitie The bounty of our God reaches not to our life only but to our contentment neither hath he thought good to allow us only the bread of sufficiency but sometimes of pleasure One while that is but necessary which some other time were superfluous It is a scrupulous injustice to scant ourselves where God hath been liberal To whom should we complain of any want but to the Maker and Giver of all things The Blessed Virgin knew to whom she sued She had good reason to know the Divine nature and power of her Son Perhaps the Bridegroom was not so needy but if not by his purse yet by his credit he might have supplied that want or it were hard if some of the neighbour-guests had they been duely solicited might not have furnished him with so much wine as might suffice for the last service of a dinner But Blessed Mary knew a nearer way she did not think best to lade at the shallow Channel but runs rather to the Well-head where she may dip and fill the Firkins at once with ease It may be she saw that the train of Christ which unbidden followed unto that Feast and unexspectedly added to the number of the guests might help forward that defect and therefore she justly solicits her Son JESUS for a supply Whether we want Bread or Water or Wine necessaries or comforts whither should we run O Saviour but to that infinite munificence of thine which neither denieth nor upbraideth any thing We cannot want we cannot abound but from thee Give us what thou wilt so thou give us contentment with what thou givest But what is this I hear A sharp answer to the suit of a Mother Oh woman what have I to doe with thee He whose sweet mildness and mercy never sent away any suppliant discontented doth he only frown upon her that bare him He that commands us to honour Father and Mother doth he disdain her whose flesh he took God forbid Love and Duty doth not exempt Parents from due admonition She sollicited Christ as a Mother he answers her as a Woman If she were the Mother of his flesh his Deity was eternal She might not so remember her self to be a Mother that she should forget she was